Category Archives: World

Business Council of Canada says Nexus closure 'deeply troubling' in letter to U.S.
OTTAWA - The Business Council of Canada says it is concerned over the continued closure of the Nexus trusted-traveller program. Business Council of Canada CEO Goldy Hyder says it is 'deeply troubling'...
Oct 16, 2022

China party meets to grant Xi Jinping 5 more years in office
BEIJING (AP) - China on Sunday opened a twice-a-decade Communist Party conference at which leader Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third five-year term that breaks with recent precedent and establi...
Oct 15, 2022

Stockton, Calif., police arrest suspect in serial killings
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) - A man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings in Northern California was arrested before dawn Saturday as he drove through the streets of Sto...
Oct 15, 2022

'Don't Look Back': Refugee, plant worker writes of survival
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - As Achut Deng lay in her apartment bedroom in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, sickened alongside hundreds of her co-workers at a South Dakota meatpacking plant, she w...
Oct 15, 2022

California governor blocks Charles Manson follower's parole
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's governor blocked the parole of Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel on Friday, more than five decades after she scrawled "Helter Skelter" on a wall using ...
Oct 14, 2022

Justice Dept. seeks end to arbiter's review of Trump docs
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to overturn a judge's appointment of an independent arbiter to review documents seized during an FBI search of former P...
Oct 14, 2022

Brothers reverse plea to guilty in car-bomb murder trial
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) - In a stunning reversal, two brothers who are on trial for the car-bomb murder of a Maltese anti-corruption journalist on Friday entered guilty pleas on the first day of trial. O...
Oct 14, 2022

Judge rules new DACA program can continue temporarily
HOUSTON (AP) - A federal judge ruled Friday that the current version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children can contin...
Oct 14, 2022

AT&T Illinois to pay $23M to settle federal probe
CHICAGO (AP) - AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a federal probe into its illegal efforts to influence former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, prosecutors announ...
Oct 14, 2022

Putin: Call-up of Russian reservists to finish in 2 weeks
KYIV, UKRAINE (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin says he thinks a partial mobilization of army reservists he ordered last month to bolster his country's troops in Ukraine will to be completed in ...
Oct 14, 2022