An academic who studies affirmative action filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the University of California system, seeking access to a trove of records that he says could reveal whether the system defied state law by surreptitiously reintroducing race as a factor in admissions. The lawsuit comes just two weeks after the end of a […]
A RTM cabin under construction in Saskatoon was damaged in a fire. Saskatoon Fire Department crews said they arrived at 822 45th St. late Wednesday afternoon to find smoke coming from the two-storey cabin. Firefighters said they laid an attack line and entered the building, which was filled with heavy, black smoke. The fire was […]
National Guard troops in the US have been searching through charred debris for more victims of California’s deadliest wildfire as top officials toured the ruins of a community completely destroyed by the flames. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke joined Governor Jerry Brown on a visit to the levelled town of Paradise, telling reporters it was the […]
Donald Trump’s administration has argued in legal documents that it has a constitutional right to ban CNN reporter Jim Acosta from the White House. Lawyers for the US Justice Department contended the administration has “broad discretion” to regulate press access to the complex. It was a response to CNN’s legal request for a temporary restraining […]
The CIA explored finding a “truth serum” to use on terrorism detainees in the years after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, according to a declassified report that was released as part of a lengthy Freedom of Information lawsuit. The report, written by a chief CIA medical official whose identity has not been disclosed, detailed that […]
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The nuns at Zina Rodriguez’s Catholic school in the Bronx thwacked her knuckles to punish sloppy handwriting, so she was shocked when her mail-in ballot in Florida was rejected because her signature did not match the one on record with elections officials. Ms. Rodriguez, a registered Democrat, found the rejection notice […]
Recently ranked by Maclean’s magazine as the Canadian community with the 19th highest overall crime problem, Lethbridge has seen a significant rise in drug-trafficking, break and enters and fraud in recent years. But so far, experts say those trends aren’t affecting the community’s economic growth. “There’s lots of reasons to still be optimistic about Lethbridge,” […]
SAN FRANCISCO (NYTIMES) – Ms Sheryl Sandberg was seething. Inside Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mr Mark Zuckerberg. It was September 2017, more than a year after Facebook engineers discovered suspicious Russia-linked activity on its site, an early warning of the Kremlin campaign to […]
SÃO PAULO — Cuba said Wednesday it was recalling thousands of doctors deployed to poor and remote regions of Brazil after Brazil’s far-right president-elect criticized the communist country’s treatment of the medical professionals. Cuba started deploying health professionals to Brazil in 2013 as part of the Mais Medicos, or More Doctors, program, started by the […]
President Trump has blamed “poor forest management” in California for the wildfires that have swept across the state. In a couple of tweets, he has suggested that the state has not managed its forests properly, despite receiving “billions of dollars” each year. The comments came shortly after he issued an emergency declaration to allow US […]