US President Donald Trump said he cancelled a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghanistan leaders after a bombing in the past week in Kabul that killed 12 people, including an American soldier, and has called off peace negotiations with the insurgent group. His tweet on Saturday evening was surprising because it […]
Under the shade of a sweeping Texas ash tree, Benjamin Davis sits in the trunk of a Ford Escape parked across from his condemned home. The veteran stares down at his rugged hands, cracked and worn from years of hard labour and humid heat. For Davis (57), the loss of his home to Hurricane Harvey […]
Storm Dorian has made landfall in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia as a post-tropical cyclone. The powerful storm hit Halifax on Saturday with winds of 100mph (160km/h), toppling trees and cutting power to more than 450,000 homes. Canada’s Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the military would be deployed to help recovery efforts. It […]
Max Werenka has been to Griffin Lake, near Revelstoke B.C. hundreds of times. He loves nature and often captures experiences with his GoPro. But the 13-year-old never expected this would lead him to help solved a missing person’s case. First, something shiny was noticed under water by another family, so Max went out with his […]
The thrill of trying to reach the top of Half Dome at Yosemite National Park turned fatal on Thursday for a hiker who fell 500 feet from the famed rock face as she was scaling the steepest part of the trail, the authorities said. The hiker, Danielle Burnett, 29, of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., was […]
A group of Burnaby, B.C., firefighters are heading to the Bahamas Saturday to help search for victims and survivors of Hurricane Dorian. Search and rescue teams are still trying to reach some Bahamian communities isolated by floodwaters and debris after Dorian struck the northern part of the archipelago last Sunday as a Category 5 storm. […]
A man in his sixties died Friday night in Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford, Montérégie after his car drifted off the road and hit a tree. Police said the single-vehicle collision occurred at 10:30 p.m. on Route 241, near Cleary ramp. Officials said the driver, who was alone in the vehicle, was launched out of his car on impact. According […]
Rival cartels are competing for control of El Chapo's ' drug tunnels' as they battle to dominate the US market. Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, commonly known as El Chapo , was found guilty in February of trafficking tonnes of cocaine, heroin and marijuana while head of the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel. His huge empire used […]
The leaders of the elite U.S. Navy SEAL Team 7 were removed from command Friday after allegations were raised about a sexual assault and drinking while units were deployed in Iraq, military officials said. A defense official told NBC News the action was related to a claim by a woman who said she was sexually […]
Richard Johnson said his six-year-old brother Adrian was just too small to withstand Hurricane Dorian. The boy was blown into churning storm surge and is among thousands of people missing, many of them children, after the worst hurricane to hit the Bahamas. It was one of many harrowing stories emerging as residents searched for loved […]