BBC News – US & Canada

As the search for remains in the collapsed apartment block ends, one victim remains unaccounted for. […]

The sanctions are in response to recent US sanctions on Chinese officials in Hong Kong. […]

The ruling is a victory for Angelina Jolie, who is locked in a custody battle with Brad Pitt. […]

From breastfeeding to representation, women are still frustrated at most 'gender balanced' Games. […]

Just 15 cells' worth of DNA was used to track down the man suspected of killing a US girl in 1989. […]

After decades of criticism from Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have a new name. […]

It comes as gun violence is on the rise in Washington DC and other American cities. […]

What's the row about virus research in China between a prominent Republican and Dr Anthony Fauci? […]

President Biden has been under increasing pressure to respond to the historic anti-regime protests. […]

One of the world's largest gaming companies is accused of endemic discrimination and harassment. […]

The giant African land snail is known to destroy local ecosystems and can cause meningitis in humans. […]

The president reflects on his first six months in the White House in a town hall hosted in Ohio. […]

The disgraced Hollywood producer appears in court in a wheelchair, facing sexual assault charges. […]

No instances of the rare disease had been recorded in the US since 2003. […]

The one-time teenage FBI informant says his work with the agency amounts to 'child abuse' […]

Data shows the average American lifespan declined by one-and-a-half years in 2020. […]

A stadium was sent into panic and a six-year-old was killed in two of the weekend's worst shootings. […]

The mother pulled her son from a car after he was taken from her in broad daylight in the New York City. […]

When Covid closed New York theatres, dancer Robbie Fairchild started a business that put down roots. […]

How a novel use of DNA and ancestry websites is helping police uncover clues in cold case murders. […]

As searches for unmarked graves continue, survivors reflect on a dark legacy of residential schools. […]

The payments will go to about 39 million households, according to the US Treasury Department and the IRS. […]

The discovery of more than a thousand unmarked graves has shocked many. Here's what we know so far. […]

Backlash for "cultural appropriation" on the video-making app may mean no viral dances for a while. […]

A debate over communion for the second Catholic US president renews questions of religion and politics. […]

Overdose deaths in the US rose by 30% last year and experts say the pandemic played a big role. […]

As wildfires rage across the western US, scientists report the "most extreme" fire clouds they have seen. […]

In remote towers, US Forest Service lookouts act as an early warning system for forest fires. […]

It's not the new record temperatures that concern the BBC's Roger Harrabin - it's the way they were smashed. […]

The vortex of smoke and flame is one of the latest signs of extreme weather threatening the US West. […]

A section of the US electorate refuses to believe that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. […]

An Australian researcher is trying to understand how disinformation flows through the Chinese diaspora. […]

A truck filled with 2,000kg of fireworks goes up in flames, injuring at least 17 people in Los Angeles. […]

Donald Trump says migrants are crossing the border like the US "has never seen". We've checked the numbers. […]

Both the mother and grandmother of Pablo Rodríguez were in the building when it fell. Now, he wants answers. […]

Decades after she was told girls couldn't do the job, she got a chance to live her childhood dream. […]

The US vice-president appeals for an end to "finger-pointing" amid a bipartisan backlash. […]

As search and rescue efforts continue, friends and family desperately await signs from the missing. […]

Katty Kay leaves the BBC after nearly three decades of service, including five years on Beyond 100 Days. […]

Legendary anchor Katty Kay signs off from the BBC for the final time. […]

This video was sent by one of the first eyewitnesses on the scene of the Miami building collapse. […]

The president says rebels would need more than guns to take on the nuclear-armed US government. […]

About 40 cows made a run for it and wandered through the town of Pico Rivera. […]

More than 2,000 migrant children are being detained in an overcrowded camp in Texas ridden with disease. […]

An investigation by the BBC has uncovered alarming conditions at a child migrant camp in Texas. […]

The White House virus adviser tells the BBC the Delta variant will spread unless more Americans get the shot. […]

The House speaker tells the BBC that American democracy is in peril if voting rights reform fails. […]

Learn what's at stake as voters head to the polls to choose a new leader for New York City. […]

The US Navy conducted a 'Full Ship Shock Trial' against its aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford. […]

Remote workers are freer than ever to relocate, especially when smaller cities dangle incentives. […]

The president snaps at a female correspondent before apologising later on for being "a wise guy". […]

The funnel was spotted near the town of D'Arcy in Saskatchewan. […]

The four passengers were rescued after their boat got stuck at the top of the dam. […]

A framed photograph of an Edinburgh mural of Frederick Douglass was among gifts exchanged by the leaders. […]

A BBC producer gives up her seat on a Cornish hotel patio to the ultimate VIP guest - Joe Biden. […]

The New York Philharmonic is back, playing to a live - and not-so-live - audience. […]

The young bear found itself in a dangerous situation in Arizona before being helped. […]

The Kim's Convenience stars say storylines were "overtly racist" and their pay is "horsepoop". […]

Dry conditions in the western US leave experts worried about a wildfire season unlike any other. […]

The former US President is releasing his second novel, written with author James Patterson. […]

Egerton Ryerson helped create a Canadian school system which forcibly assimilated indigenous people. […]

The conservative state's hands-off approach has made it the hottest weed market in the US. […]

This is how five centenarians celebrated the reopening of Washington DC nursing homes. […]

They were taking part in a Nato military exercise in Bulgaria but ended up storming the wrong place. […]

Footage shows the moment a teenage girl in California gets the better of a bear fighting with her pets. […]

Obum and his wife Faith moved to Tulsa in 2019, inspired by the legacy of 'Black Wall Street'. […]

The BBC's Michelle Fleury looks at the problem of hate crime directed at Asian Americans in the US. […]

Viola Fletcher, a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, calls for justice 100 years on. […]

How a rush to cash-in on cannabis ended in disaster in New Mexico. […]

Decades after white mobs razed an affluent black neighbourhood the search for bodies goes on. […]

The anniversary of the murder of George Floyd was marked by moments of remembrance and calls for police reform. […]

Black people in the US are subject to double the level of heat stress in cities than whites. […]

The BBC's Sandrine Lungumbu talks to three young black people in the UK, US and DR Congo about the trial. […]

A year on from the death of George Floyd, BBC presenter Eddie Nestor examines his role as a father. […]

The BBC has uncovered allegations of cold temperatures, sickness, lice and abuse, through a series of interviews with children and staff at US detention camps for children. […]

A year after George Floyd's death, it's not just civilians who'll be reflecting on what happened. […]

New laws in France have increased police powers at a time when their use of force is under scrutiny. […]

Amid calls to improve training in the US, we examine how it compares with other developed countries. […]

Democrat Joe Biden has promised to undo many of Donald Trump's immigration policies. […]

Adrian Meza and his family from Nicaragua have just been released from detention by US border officials. […]

The increase from 380 to nearly 3,500 has overwhelmed local facilities in Mexico, the UN warns. […]

A 10-year-old from Nicaragua woke up to find he had been abandoned by his group. […]

It takes up to 20 days, and can be deadly – but everyday hundreds try to cross the border between Panama and Colombia. […]

Tougher policies and deaths on the road are unlikely to stop Guatemalans from trying to reach the US. […]

A surge in migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border tests the administration's immigration promises. […]

Thousands of migrants from Central America are making an arduous journey to the US border. […]

Canada's "Sixties Scoop" saw thousands of indigenous children forcibly removed from their families. […]

The campaign is based on efforts around a similar case involving a British journalist fifty years ago. […]

After being labelled "patient zero", a small-town physician in Canada was shunned. […]