Baltimore mayor takes leave of absence in wake of scandal Mayor Catherine Pugh takes indefinite leave of absence amid book sales scandal. Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, who last week took an indefinite leave of absence from office amid an ongoing book controversy, has been called to step down immediately by the city council. The 14 members […]

Voting will take place on Tuesday, April 9, and the most recent polls show surprising results. The key players in the run-up to the election are Benjamin Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud and his main challenger, centrist Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party. But an unexpected candidate has crept in as a possible […]

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York tells PEOPLE that Mack was scheduled to appear in court at 1130 a.m. to plead guilty. It is unclear which charges she will plead guilty to, the spokesman says. Prosecutors have accused her of recruiting sex slaves for Keith Raniere, who […]

Good morning. “Some idiotic things are well worth doing,” Richard Ford wrote in “Independence Day,” and I hold the quotation close to my heart every time I make another batch of kombucha or feed the sourdough starter I keep in the fridge against the dream that I’ll make a huge batch of pizza dough soon, […]

A TEENAGE girl and a 60-year-old woman have today suffered facial injuries after a noxious substance was thrown in their face from a passing van. Cops said the pair were attacked at 11.45am on Monday in Thornton Heath, South London. They were rushed to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Jon Ellacott, who lives close to […]

THE UK will be hotter than Barcelona today as temperatures soared to a balmy 20C before a polar plunge blasts the country later this week. Balmy sunshine descended on large parts of Britain today, while thundery showers swept across Wales, the Midlands and East Anglia this afternoon. The Met Office recorded temperatures as high as […]

The Trudeau government is making training in the skilled trades a priority. Last month’s federal budget included $1.7 billion over five years to help workers upgrade their skills. The Business Council of Manitoba has said there are thousands of job vacancies in the province, but not enough qualified people to fill them. Red River College […]

A Confederate monument in a North Carolina cemetery has been vandalized. The News & Observer reports cement or another hard substance was smeared on the monument in Durham’s Maplewood Cemetery. Durham police say the vandalism was reported Sunday. This is at least the second time vandals have defaced the monument created in 2014 by the […]

Double wipeout! Rescuer on a jetski tows a surfer to safety after he is hit by a huge wave – but then ALSO ends up underwater as he fails to outpace a second huge wall of water Rescue jet ski is wiped out by massive wave as it tries to save stranded surfer The double […]

RANTING and raving, an angry man towers over me, calling me names and telling me to “shut the f*** up”. Then an unkempt, drunken woman – who had been comatose on the couch minutes earlier – calls me “a disgusting little pile of mess” and comes at me with a pair of scissors to cut […]