Their friends call them the Chinatown kai doy — Taishanese for “bad boys.” They shot pool, rode motorcycles, and wanted to be James Dean. People would cross the street when they saw them, finding them just a little too rambunctious for comfort. It has been a while since the bad boys of Chinatown made anyone […]

The reward for the safe return of Mekayla Bali, a missing teen from Yorkton, Sask., has now been increased to $50,000, thanks to an anonymous donor. Mekayla went missing on April 12, 2016, when she was 16 years old. She was last seen at a bus depot in Yorkton. “It was actually a bit of […]

The US Senate has voted to withdraw US military aid for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen and to blame the kingdom’s crown prince for the murder of a journalist. The historic vote is the first time any chamber of US Congress has agreed to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War […]

The Southwest Airlines plane was flying over eastern Idaho and 600 miles into its journey when staff discovered the “life critical cargo shipment”. The organ was meant to have been delivered to a Seattle hospital after being transported from California. Airline spokesman Dan Landson said: “Once we realised the error we immediately worked to return […]

Maria Butina loves guns, has ties to a top Russian banker, and – after months in a US jail – now admits conspiring against the US government during a period in which relations with Moscow went into freefall. She has pleaded guilty to being directed by a Russian government official to “establish unofficial lines of […]

SEATTLE — The announcement that came over the intercom on Southwest Flight 3606 from Seattle to Dallas on Sunday had nothing to do with turbulence. It was not about connecting flights, troubling weather, or delays. This one was highly unusual: A human heart had been left behind on the airplane, the announcement said, and was […]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is on the short-list of potential candidates for the president’s next chief of staff, US media said on Thursday (Dec 13). Kushner, an influential White House adviser and husband of Trump’s daughter Ivanka, met with the Republican leader to discuss the job, according to […]

The US has accused China and Russia of using “opaque” and “corrupt” practices to expand their influence in Africa. US National Security Adviser John Bolton said the two nations were “deliberately and aggressively” attempting to gain an economic advantage over the US on the continent. He said the Trump administration’s new strategy for Africa would […]

MIAMI — The American government employees in Cuba who suffered mystifying symptoms — dizziness, insomnia, difficulty concentrating — after hearing a strange high-pitched sound all had one thing in common: damage to the part of the inner ear responsible for balance, according to the first doctors to examine them after the episodes. Two years after […]

CHICO, Calif. — Gabe Price was having another rough day. As he had every morning since escaping the deadliest wildfire in California’s history, the 17-year-old had woken up beside his father on a sagging air mattress at his grandparents’ house, now crammed with four extra people and a dog. Stress filled the cramped rooms like […]