A fortified border, added personnel and a new technology have slowed the movement of asylum seekers over the past two decades. Stopping asylum seekers from crossing into the United States was a major plank of Donald Trump’s election campaign and to stop the migrant caravan moving its way up from Latin America, the US has […]
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Even Paraguay’s antidrug chief couldn’t believe what was happening. In October, officials there said they had foiled a plot to deploy a car bomb packed with 187 pounds of explosives to free a jailed drug lord. Days later, heavily armed men threatened in a video to kill the country’s attorney general. “There […]
London police are asking for the public’s help locating a missing 60-year-old man. Christopher Penstone of London was last seen on December 14 around 8 p.m. in the area of Bonaventure Drive and Martinet Avenue, officers said. Penstone is described as a Caucasian male, 5’8″ and 170 pounds, with a medium build and short grey […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The memos were concise and direct. An executive at Johnson & Johnson said the main ingredient in its best-selling baby powder could potentially be contaminated by asbestos, the dangerous mineral that can cause cancer. He recommended to senior staff in 1971 that the company “upgrade” its quality control of talc. Two […]
OTTAWA — Canada’s public-safety ministry will reconsider the way Sikh organizations are described in a recent report outlining terror threats in Canada, the department’s minister Ralph Goodale said Friday. The Canadian Sikh community, including one of Goodale’s fellow Liberal MPs, wants him to do far more than fix a few words. Goodale said he is […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump on Friday (Dec 14) said his budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, would take over as White House chief of staff on a temporary basis after former New Jersey governor Chris Christie abruptly withdrew from consideration for the post. Mulvaney, a former congressman who heads the White House Office of Management and […]
Trump acted because he ‘was very concerned about how this would affect the election’, Cohen told ABC News. US President Donald Trump knew it was wrong to order election-eve hush money paid to two women who claimed affairs with him, his former lawyer Michael Cohen said in an interview to be broadcast Friday. Trump acted […]
Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer says he bought the silence of two women because Mr Trump was “very concerned” about how their stories of alleged affairs with him would affect his election chances. In an interview with ABC News, Michael Cohen said he “gave loyalty to someone who, truthfully, does not deserve loyalty”. Cohen was […]
A group representing 20 industry groups of varying sizes in New Brunswick is critical of proposed legislation that would remove a property tax exemption from machinery and equipment used by heavy industry. The Coalition of New Brunswick Employers says the affected businesses would face huge additional financial pressures. “Clearly this is another tax on industry […]
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK • Federal prosecutors are investigating whether US President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee misspent some of the record US$107 million (S$147 million) it raised from donors, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people it said were familiar with the matter. The early-stage investigation by the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan is examining whether some […]