An Ontario woman serving a life sentence for the murder of an eight-year-old boy in the 1980s has been granted full parole after officials found she had taken steps to improve her chances of rehabilitation. Amina Chaudhary, 57, has been on day parole since 2016 and was denied full parole the following year because authorities […]
Montreal’s new Samuel de Champlain Bridge was officially inaugurated today, and will fully open to traffic on Canada Day. Today’s inauguration comes 57 years to the day the first Champlain Bridge opened on June 28, 1962. Related Rush-hour drivers get their first try at Montreal’s new Samuel de Champlain Bridge New Samuel de Champlain Bridge […]
Good morning. (Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) It’s Friday and the nation has made it through the first series of Democratic presidential debates. You can read The Times’s extensive coverage here, including live analysis, transcripts, and snapshots of the policies and priorities of each of the 20(!) candidates […]
SALEM, Ore. — One by one, Oregon’s 11 Senate Republicans fled their state with little more than spare underwear and their passports. They disappeared into Idaho cabins and motels with canned goods and at least one burner phone. They parked borrowed cars outside hideaways to throw off anyone on their trails. Democrats swiftly sent state […]
The committee in charge of the 2021 Francophonie Games is recommending that the Democratic Republic of Congo host the international event. The event brings together 3,000 athletes and artists from la Francophonie’s more than 50 member states. The announcement comes after New Brunswick, the original host of the games, pulled the plug on the event […]
US actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager at a bar in Massachusetts. He will appear in court on 7 January over the incident, which allegedly occurred in Nantucket in July 2016. On Monday, Mr Spacey posted a video in which he appears to deny any wrongdoing while in character as […]
On a warm summer day about a year ago, it was standing room only at Wilde Beest, a garden-to-table restaurant that had just opened. Those lucky enough to get a table included the actors Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig — James Bond himself. In the sage-green and white dining room, customers sat under taxidermy pheasants. […]
At some point or another over the last decade, Democrats have won the most votes but lost national elections for the presidency, the House and the Senate. Partisan gerrymandering is just one of the reasons the Democrats are at such a disadvantage. But the Supreme Court’s decision on gerrymandering Thursday came as long-term political and […]
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — For most of this decade, North Carolina Democrats have complained that the Republican-led legislature has aggressively altered the state’s voting rules and redrawn electoral maps to secure an overwhelming partisan advantage. On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court said it couldn’t do anything about it. The decision by the justices not to […]
Ten more candidates took the stage on Thursday in the final night of the first 2020 Democratic debate. The second night of the first United States 2020 Democratic debate took place on Thursday night with a another 10 candidates taking the stage in Miami, Florida. Thursday’s debate round saw a few more confrontations than the first […]