WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East coast. Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that […]
Demonstrators gathered on Sunday to take part in a pro-choice rally outside Montreal City Hall in response to the recent criminalization of abortion in some parts of the United States. Protesters in Montreal say the American legislation should serve as a wake-up call to Canadians. “I find that deeply threatening,” says Marnie Wellar, who attended […]
Bland, a black woman, was found hanging in her jail cell three days after her 2015 arrest for a minor traffic violation. Mobile phone video recorded by Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail following a confrontational 2015 traffic stop, shows for the first time her perspective as a white state […]
MOBILE, Ala. — Like nearly everyone who grew up in Africatown, Felice Harris had heard the origin story of her little Alabama neighborhood, passed around from relative to relative and house to house. It was the story of a group of West Africans carried to Alabama on the last slave ship to reach the United […]
An angry grandma slammed Subway for taking one hour to make 63 foot-long sandwiches. The diner had placed the giant order to help cater family and friends at her grandson's confirmation party. But after her wait, the woman whinged about the service online. She left a scathing one-star review on TripAdvisor, in which she even […]
A drugs firm has agreed to pay $85m to settle a lawsuit brought by the state of Oklahoma over its role in the US opioid crisis. Businesses tied to Israel-based firm Teva Pharmaceuticals were named by the state as responsible for an epidemic of deaths connected to prescription opioids. The opioid crisis resulted in a […]
Shocking details of the FBI’s smear campaign against Martin Luther King Jr have been found on secret tapes, it is claimed. Its is alleged the agency accused the celebrated civil-rights campaigner of having up to 40 affairs. As the US Baptist minister rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s, he was subjected to years […]
The University of Regina says it’s considering its next move after losing an appeal of an earlier verdict that found the school liable after a teen was paralyzed diving into the university’s pool. A spokesman says the institution respects the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal‘s ruling and is talking with its lawyers and insurer over possible terms […]
Members with the Osoyoos Fire Department rescued two stranded hikers stuck on a mountain west of Osoyoos on Saturday afternoon. Osoyoos fire chief Ryan McCaskill said it received a call around 1:00 p.m. that two male hikers needed assistance after climbing steep terrain behind the Osoyoos Golf Course trying to access the old quarry mines. […]
A yoga instructor miraculously saved after she went missing in the Hawaii forest for more than two weeks has told how she “chose life” over death despite wanting to give up. Seventeen days after disappearing while hiking, Amanda Eller is now recovering after surviving by eating plants. In a Facebook video, the 35-year-old told how […]