USA Gymnastics filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in an effort to secure its own survival. “This is not a liquidation. This is a reorganisation,” recently elected chairwoman Kathryn Carson said. Facing 100 lawsuits representing 350 athletes, USA Gymnastics has struggled to recover from the scandal after it was revealed that its former national team […]
The real estate market in Montreal and the surrounding area continues to show strength, as the number of homes sold climbed six per cent in November compared with a year ago, amid declining supply. The Greater Montreal Real Estate Board says there were 3,630 residential sales last month, setting a new sales record for the […]
The State Department denied a temporary visa to a Guatemalan father trying to attend the funeral on Saturday for his teenage daughter, who was kidnapped outside her North Carolina home last month and was later found dead off a rural road, the man’s lawyer said on Thursday. The father of the girl, 13-year-old Hania Aguilar, […]
George H.W. Bush‘s funeral train is a throwback to an era when U.S. presidents, Canadian prime ministers and British monarchs were honoured with railway tours after their deaths. Bush, who died last week at the age of 94, is scheduled to travel approximately 113 kilometres through suburban Houston on a funeral train Thursday morning, following […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Trump administration is expected on Thursday (Dec 6) to roll back an Obama-era rule requiring new coal plants to slash carbon emissions, a move that could crack open the door in coming years for new plants fired by the fossil fuel. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will make an “energy policy […]
Central American asylum seekers in Mexico seize even the smallest chance to enter the US. Thousands of people from Central America are not giving up hope of seeking asylum in the United States. That is despite increasing efforts from the Trump administration to keep them out. Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Tijuana. Source: Read […]
OTTAWA – An all-party committee of elected MPs planned a closed-door meeting with a delegation of Chinese politicians and diplomats this week, but abruptly cancelled it on Wednesday. A former Canadian ambassador to China said the meeting was a bad idea in the first place because holding it in-camera meant a lost opportunity for Canada […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here's the sign-up.] It’s Thursday. ??Here are bars to avoid this weekend, also known as the official events listing for SantaCon 2018 in New York City. Weather: More clouds, more cold, a high of 39, plus a chance of snow showers tonight. Alternate-side parking: in effect until […]
HOUSTON — Seven months ago, hundreds of people filled St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston to say goodbye to Barbara Bush. On Thursday, they were preparing to return to St. Martin’s once more to remember her husband — the 41st president of the United States. The funeral on Thursday morning for former President George Bush […]
A New Jersey teacher will not be returning to her job this Christmas after she told a class of six- and seven-year-olds that Santa Claus is not real. Officials said that the substitute teacher, whose identity is not known, had also debunked other holiday characters, including the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy, last week. […]