BRASILIA (REUTERS) – Fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest worsened in the first week of September and are increasingly spreading into areas of untouched forest, satellite data showed as of Wednesday (Sept 9), after the number of fires likely reached a 10-year high in August. Brazil reported 8,373 fires in its portion of the Amazon rainforest […]
A new survey suggests that while Canadians are divided over removing monuments to politicians who harboured racist views or pushed racist policies, many oppose the “spontaneous” toppling of statues of Canada’s first prime minister, John A. Macdonald. The online poll by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies follows the controversial tearing down and vandalism […]
SACRAMENTO (REUTERS) – US military helicopters on Tuesday (Sept 8) plucked dozens more campers, hikers and locals from the path of a raging California wildfire, with one pilot describing conditions as more dangerous than combat. California Army National Guard Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters were flying into dense smoke, sometimes landing within 15m of flames […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The US Justice Department is seeking to take over the defence of President Donald Trump in a defamation suit brought by advice columnist E Jean Carroll, who claims Trump raped her two decades ago. The move could further delay a suit in which Carroll is demanding potentially damaging evidence from Trump during […]
With summer quickly drawing to a close and temperatures beginning to dip, children (and probably quite a few adults, too) may be starting to ask themselves a very important question: What should I dress up as for Halloween this year? But perhaps there is a bigger question: What will Halloween even look like this year? […]
SAN FRANCISCO (NYTIMES) – It was an old company town tucked away in the Sierra Nevada, where life revolved around shifts at the Edison hydroelectric plant. Neighbours visited at the post office and had coffee at a general store that smoked its own meats. And every wildfire season, the threat of destruction loomed like the […]
SAN FRANCISCO (NYTIMES) – It was an old company town tucked away in the Sierra Nevada, where life revolved around shifts at the Edison hydroelectric plant. Neighbours visited at the post office and had coffee at a general store that smoked its own meats. And every wildfire season, the threat of destruction loomed like the […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Money was supposed to have been one of the great advantages of incumbency for President Donald Trump, much as it was for President Barack Obama in 2012 and George W. Bush in 2004. After getting outspent in 2016, Trump filed for re-election on the day of his inauguration – earlier than […]
Sept 7 (Reuters) – Police arrested another 15 people in Portland after protests were held overnight on Sunday near a police precinct as the Oregon city has crossed 100 days of demonstrations that have at times turned violent. Protesters set fire on some mattresses that were put out eventually by firefighters, Portland police said in […]
The boy’s wounds were not life-threatening, officials said, but the violence once again marred the pre-dawn West Indian American Day celebration. By Alan Feuer Five people, including a 6-year-old boy, were shot early Monday at an unofficial celebration of J’Ouvert, a daybreak event in Brooklyn that typically marks the start of Carnival in Caribbean cultures, […]