Two months after six tornadoes ripped through the National Capital Region, the 12 organizations responsible for providing assistance to those affected held a public meeting at city hall Thursday afternoon to give updates on the relief efforts in the city. On top of the funds already distributed by the charity organizations, proceeds from last weekend’s […]
A judge in Washington has ordered the White House to return CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass after it was revoked by the US Secret Service. The judge’s order says that the pass must be reinstated as a CNN lawsuit against Donald Trump continues. The judge said the White House decision likely violated the journalist’s […]
Some of those seeking to overhaul the nation’s criminal justice system want to cut the prison population by more than a million inmates. An agreement in Washington this week, hailed as a landmark bipartisan moment, falls well short of that: about 7,000 people might get out early. The bill, endorsed by President Trump, makes shorter […]
SAN FRANCISCO (WASHINGTON POST) – When he was five years old and battling leukaemia, the boy known as Batkid captivated the country as he dramatically “saved” Gotham from the bad guys in 2013. He just clinched another, much bigger, victory: He passed his five-year mark being cancer free. It is an important milestone for Miles […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Advertisers are the financial engine of Facebook, but lately the relationship had gotten rocky. It got rockier on Thursday (Nov 15). Several top marketers were openly critical of the tech giant, a day after The New York Times published an investigation detailing how Facebook’s top executives – Mr Mark Zuckerberg and […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – American prosecutors have obtained a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose website published thousands of classified US government documents, a US federal court document showed on Thursday (Nov 15). The document, which prosecutors say was filed by mistake, asks a judge to seal documents in a criminal case unrelated to […]
For Florida and Georgia, two outsize states in the Deep South, Election Day hasn’t actually ended. What voters did not know when they cast their ballots on Nov. 6 was that nearly 10 days later, they would not know the outcome of Florida’s high-profile Senate race or Georgia’s contentious contest for governor. The races for […]
Drug baron Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman ordered hits on his own family and his weapons of choice were a diamond-encrusted pistol and a gold-plated AK-47, a US court has heard. Guzman, considered the world’s largest drug trafficker since the death of Colombia’s Pablo Escobar, is on trial in New York under draconian security arrangements after […]
PARADISE, UNITED STATES (AFP) – The number of people listed as missing in one of California’s deadliest wildfires skyrocketed to 631, authorities said on Thursday (Nov 15), as the remains of seven additional victims were found by rescuers. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said the number of missing had more than doubled during the day […]
WARNING: Some the details in this story may be disturbing to some readers. At least two deer have been euthanized in as many weeks after becoming caught in fences in a southwest Edmonton neighbourhood, and the city said Thursday it is committed to making changes. Perdeep Dhillon, who lives in Cameron Heights, said a fellow […]