To the Editor: Re “Biden’s ‘Regret’ for Hill’s Pain Fails to Soothe” (front page, April 26): In 1991, many of us were glued to our TVs as a Senate panel led by Joe Biden grilled Anita Hill as she testified during a confirmation hearing for Clarence Thomas. Mr. Biden’s conduct and that of the panel […]

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s state lender Caixa Economica Federal expects to price the offering of its $2.3 billion stake in state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA by late May, one source with knowledge of the matter said. The secondary offering prospectus will be filed over the coming weeks, the source added, asking for anonymity […]

MADRID/LONDON/WARSAW (Reuters) – Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners is in talks with potential bidders about a possible sale of its Continental Foods business, which could be worth as much as 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion), five sources familiar with the matter said. Among those interested in the packaged soup and sauce business are Spanish […]

It’s one of the busier New Music Fridays in some time — so busy that coming up with just five picks was rather confounding. Here are the tunes I settled on. 1. Sum 41, Blood in My Eyes (single) Three years after the comeback album — and following many, many months of touring — the […]

Last Tuesday evening, Janis Irwin found out she had won the Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood seat for the NDP. That Thursday, she found out she had won $100,000. “I was just getting my life sorted, was going through my wallet and I checked a lottery ticket from March and found out that I’d won. “I honestly didn’t believe […]

To the Editor: Re “Joe Biden Announces 2020 Run for President” (nytimes.com, April 25): Joe Biden has spent his career being a true public servant. He arrives in this race with more knowledge and experience than every member of the Trump administration combined. He’s not looking to destroy the government and disregard the Constitution. He’s […]

Edmonton city council’s executive committee has approved an 18-year lease extension for the Royal Mayfair Golf Club. The deal will take the lease agreement with the privately-run river valley club to 2069. The current lease was set to expire in 2051. Related Group asks city to review lease with Mayfair golf club “The $20-million investment […]

When Johnny Mac steps into the ring on June 15, he’s fighting for something worth more than a title. An openly gay athlete, he is also fighting to change how others perceive him. In the ring, he calls himself “The Rebel” because he’s rebelled against stereotypes his entire life. “I think there’s still a lot […]

WASHINGTON — For all his talk about judges not being political actors beholden to a president, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and his conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court may hand President Trump one of the biggest political victories of his administration: the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census. It also happens […]

To the Editor: Re “Conservatives on Court Appear to Back New Citizenship Query” (front page, April 24): If the Supreme Court clears the way for citizenship to be one of the questions in the 2020 census, then I, for one, will notify any inquiring census-taker that I refuse to participate on the grounds that it […]