A 34-year-old Sherbrooke woman and her Italian boyfriend have been missing for three weeks in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa. Edith Blais, 34, and her travel companion, Luca Tacchetto, 30, have not made contact with their families since December 15. The pair was last seen travelling by car in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second largest […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Inside a police station house in Queens about a year ago, St. Clair Steward insisted he had not been involved in a recent shooting. Mr. Steward told the police he had been resting at home. Investigators did not believe […]
A woman who was rejected by a man she met on a millionaires’ dating site was arrested for allegedly stalking him and sending 159,000 unwanted text messages. Jacquelyn Ades, from Florida, also allegedly threatened the skincare company chief executive and told him: "I’d make sushi outta ur kidneys n chopsticks outta ur hand bones." The […]
U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to create a U.S. space force is being welcomed by military experts in Canada, and the executive director of one defence think tank says Canada should consider following suit. “At some point we might like to think about a space force,” Matthew Overton, executive director of the Conference of Defence […]
Please sign up here to have the Race/Related newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox. Happy New Year! For the first newsletter of 2019, I’ve asked my colleague Amy Harmon, a Pulitzer winner and National correspondent, to contribute. Amy has written about the intersection of science and race at The New York Times for over a […]
At least three men were killed and four more injured in a shooting at a bowling alley in Torrance, Calif., the police said early Saturday. The Torrance Police Department said on Twitter that there had been “reports of shots fired with multiple victims down” at Gable House Bowl in Torrance, a southeastern suburb of Los […]
WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – While many federal workers go without pay and the government is partially shut down, hundreds of senior Trump political appointees are poised to receive annual raises of about US$10,000 (S$13,600) a year. The raises for Cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries, top administrators and even Vice-President Mike Pence are scheduled to go into […]
The recent snowfall has prompted many people to get outside and take advantage of the winter weather. With fast-changing temperatures, police are warning people not to venture onto the ice. Constable Sean McCaffrey is with the OPP East Region SAVE Team, a group dedicated to ensuring Ontario trails and frozen waterways are a safe place […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump threatened to keep the US government partially shut for months or years on Friday (Jan 4) after he and Democratic leaders failed to resolve their dispute over Trump’s request for US$5.6 billion (S$7.6 billion) to build a wall on the Mexican border. After Democratic congressional leaders refused Trump’s […]
A truckload of pigs overturned in British Columbia’s Southern Interior early Friday, killing some, while the survivors had to fend for themselves until the afternoon. The 1 a.m. accident took place approximately 10 minutes east of Keremeos. Police say they were on scene until 9 a.m., and that three pigs had to be euthanized. Another […]