Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has promised to redouble efforts to prevent suicide in the Canadian Forces after new figures showed more than a dozen members of the military took their own lives last year. The deaths coincided with new services and supports aimed at preventing such tragedies, underlining the complexity of the challenge facing the […]
The job of commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department has proved to be one of the most tenuous in the country. The mayor this week selected Michael Harrison as the city’s fifth police chief in four years, and asked him to try to solve a list of persistent problems that chased most of the others […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] When Jameek Lowery started filming inside a New Jersey police station, he was panicked and afraid. As he waited for an ambulance, he told officers that he was paranoid and insisted that they were trying to kill him. Two […]
In the last few months, the 18 jurors at the drug conspiracy trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican kingpin known as El Chapo, have been inundated with evidence exposing the innermost secrets of his global narco-empire. But on Wednesday, the panel got a riveting and unexpected look at something even more revealing: dozens of […]
MIAMI — After nearly a year of deepening anger over a deadly Florida high school shooting and the bungled police response that followed, no prominent officials have been held directly accountable for their handling of the tragedy. That may be about to change. Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida’s newly minted Republican chief executive, promised as a […]
President Donald Trump has walked out of a meeting with congressional leaders as talks to end the partial government shutdown remain at an impasse, leading Democrats and the president himself have said. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Mr Trump asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Wednesday’s White House meeting whether she would agree to […]
The Peterborough Police Service is asking the city for $25.68 million to run the service this year — that represents a 2.8 per cent increase over last year’s budget. In 2017, the service had an operating budget of $24.97 million. Peterborough Police have received budget increases in the neighbourhood of about 3 per cent over […]
President Donald Trump has walked out of a meeting with Democratic leaders as negotiations broke down on the 19th day of a US government shutdown. The Republican president ended talks after Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer stuck by their refusal to fund his planned US-Mexico border wall. Mr Trump called his meeting with the pair […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil said Wednesday that his government would no longer be a party to a United Nations migration accord signed last month, arguing that “not just anyone can come into our home.” The decision is not expected to have any immediate impact because the deal, known as the […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Donald Trump’s legal team told special counsel Robert Mueller that the US president will not answer any more questions in the probe of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday (Jan 9). Trump submitted written answers to questions from Mueller in late November. In an interview […]