U.S. envoys were expected in the Pakistani capital on Saturday to kickstart a new round of peace negotiations with Iran, although Iranian state media said Tehran's representatives had no immediate plans to hold face-to-face talks. Read More

The Strait of Hormuz oil shock has yet to crash demand as the rich world borrows from its stocks and pays up to secure supply. Traders are now sounding the alarm that a harsh adjustment is coming. Read More

The Iran war is now in an artificial stasis, in which practically all of the vast international coalition of people who are repelled and horrified by U.S. President Donald Trump, in the United States and elsewhere, have reflexively bought into the Iranian claim that since that ghastly regime has ostensibly survived, Iran is winning the war. Read More

OTTAWA Lots of ink has been spilled this past year about the quandary of Prime Minister Mark Carneys sprawling past business dealings, significant investmentsand his many potential conflicts of interest, and a parliamentary committee unveiled some possible solutions this week. Read More

A giant octopus may have ruled the ancient seas as a top marine predator in the age of the dinosaurs, according to new research. Read More

In Jonathan Swifts satirical 18th century masterpiece, "Gullivers Travels," his sea-faring protagonist visits various fictional lands, whose inhabitants represent facets of human nature that range from the merely irksome to the grimly repulsive. In the final chapter, we meet the noble race of Houyhnhnms clean, attractive, kind, intelligent horses who are capable of conversing with Gulliver. Read More

An Ontario judge whittled 13 months off a 14-year sentence for a man who shot two people due to the Muslim shooter's youth, racial discrimination he experienced growing up in Toronto, and harsh pretrial jail conditions. Read More

In aspeechin May 1955, VincentMassey, the first Canadian-borngovernorgeneral (1952-1959),saidtrue toleration was a forbearance towards something that you do not like, or even that you disapprove of,in the interests of a greater common good. He praised the parliamentary system as an example where speech was often frank andunpalatable, buttolerated. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has baffled Conservatives. This can be seen in the party's failure to update a strategy that was targeted towards Justin Trudeau's obnoxiously progressive tenure in office. Whether they like it or not, Carney is not Trudeau. All this approach has accomplished has been to permit the current prime minister to remain high in the polls by simply being a different person than Trudeau, who had become so broadly unpopular that anyone displaying a modicum of competence would have succeeded with voters. Read More

Two daughters of a Russian oligarch once considered part of Russian President Vladimir Putins inner circle have lost their court appeal to be removed from Canadas sanctions list, a punishment in response to Russias war against Ukraine. Read More

The European Union and United States signed an agreement Friday to coordinate on the supply of critical minerals needed for key industries including defence, as China's dominance becomes a growing concern. Read More

The U.S. Justice Department said Friday it is seeking to expand the use of the death penalty in federal capital cases and add the firing squad, electrocution and gas to lethal injection as methods of execution. Read More

ATHENS -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday banded U.S. President Donald Trump together with Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping as world leaders who are "dead against" Europe. Read More

Its Friday, April 24. Here are the top stories were following today. Read More

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has apologized to the B.C. town devastated by a February mass shooting, saying he was "deeply sorry" the company did not notify police about the killer's troubling ChatGPT account. Read More

OTTAWA NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice will be announcing on Monday that he will soon be leaving federal politics to run in the provincial Quebec election in October, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to National Post. His resignation will reduce the dwindling federal NDP caucus to five. Read More

British Columbia father, Jason Sokolowski, is warning parents about an online extremist network known as 764, which he says "groomed" his teenage daughter Penelope into committing suicide. Read More

This week marks 78 years since Israel achieved independence in 1948. The story of the Jewish people is the story that any leader with a winning mindset can understand and draw inspiration from. This is a story of a people who were exiled from their homeland, the land of Israel, more than 2,500 years ago. Despite untold hardship culminating with the Holocaust from 1939-1945, they rose to establish one of the most successful democratic nations in modern times. Read More

God bless you, darling Mama. You remain forever in our hearts and prayers, said King Charles III in a video address Tuesday to mark the centennial of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II on April 21, 1926. Read More

Canadian curler Wayne Middaugh reached out to Air Canada after arriving in Geneva, Switzerland, for the World Mixed Doubles and World Senior Curling Championships short of equipment. Read More

Israel's Consul General in Toronto has weighed in on the case of a Canadian teenager who plotted "to kill as many Jewish persons as possible," after a guilty verdict was handed down in the case. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed on Friday that he underwent treatment for a very early-stage malignant tumour in his prostate and has fully recovered. Read More

LOS ANGELES - Bubbe, the bagel is having a moment. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Lebanon by Anissa Helou. Read More

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Posts own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Read More

There's a name for the blah some GLP-1 users are feeling. A loss of interest in foods they once enjoyed or diminished motivation to take part in activities they used to love, like sports or gardening. It's called Ozempic personality or anhedonia. As with Ozempic face and Ozempic butt before it, Ozempic personality started not as an official diagnosis but as an encapsulation of the experiences people have shared online. According to anecdotes but not the scientific literature, some users have experienced a kind of emotional flattening. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. Drivers are tiring of sticker shock at the pump. Read More

The global fallout from the Iran war could soon extend into the sex lives of people globally as the worlds largest condom maker warned that supply disruptions and the skyrocketing price of raw materials will trigger price increases and, in some places, shortages. Read More

Its Thursday, April 23. Here are the top stories were following today. Read More

A Canadian consulate in Milan that was shuttered by the Stephen Harper government almost 20 years ago as a cost-saving measure, only to be resurrected under Justin Trudeau more than a decade later, is under scrutiny for how much Global Affairs Canada spent to reestablish a presence in the northern Italian city. Read More