By Brooklyn Connolly Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Slowed or interrupted travel, the passing of goods and significantly restricted borders should be expected if Canadian border workers take upcoming strike action. More than 9,000 Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) union members voted in favour of a strike mandate on
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The Georgian parliament has overridden a presidential veto of the “foreign agents” legislation that has fueled Western concerns and sparked massive protests for weeks. The legislature, controlled by the ruling Georgian Dream party, dismissed President Salome Zourabichvili’s veto of the legislation that she and other critics
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s campaign has showed up outside former President Donald Trump’s New York City criminal hush money trial in an effort to refocus the presidential race on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. The Democratic president’s team on Tuesday was looking to capitalize
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By Amanda Jackson, Dave Alsup and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The cabin of a Spirit Airlines flight from Jamaica to Florida became a scene of panic and confusion Sunday when passengers were told to prepare for a possible water landing after the aircraft was turned around due to an apparent mechanical problem, a passenger
Continue Reading CNN By Amanda Jackson, Dave Alsup and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The cabin of a Spirit Airlines flight from Jamaica to Florida became a scene of panic and confusion Sunday when passengers were told to prepare for a possible water landing after the aircraft was turned around due to an apparent mechanical problem, a
Continue ReadingBy David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — Melinda French Gates says that after the US Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision that let individual states decide abortion rights, the philanthropist felt compelled to offer Americans financial support for their reproductive freedoms — support that she says she had been giving exclusively overseas. “While I have
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio lawmakers are gathering at Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s request to ensure President Joe Biden appears on the state’s fall ballot. Legislators have done this before for Republicans as well as Democrats in the years since Ohio moved up its ballot deadline. This year, they would need to set the deadline
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Porsche unveiled the first hybrid version of its most famous sports car, the 911, on Tuesday, a move that could help electric motors become more accepted even in performance cars. The move also marks a major step in the evolution of one of the most recognizable cars in the
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s landmark hush money trial turns on the testimony of a prosecution witness who told lies on the stand and cannot be trusted, a defense lawyer said Tuesday during closing arguments as he pressed jurors for an
Continue Reading By Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — A manhunt for two young men who broke out of a Louisiana jail is ongoing after two other escapees were found hiding in a dumpster behind a Dollar General store, authorities said. The four inmates, all held in connection with violent crimes, escaped from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Vallejo, Rubén Rosario Click here for updates on this story HOLLYWOOD, Florida (WSVN) — A man is on the road to recovery after a wreck on the water un the Florida Everglades. According to Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue, two airboats collided in the middle of alligator-infested water in Southwest Broward County, Sunday morning.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Melinda French Gates plans to donate $1 billion over the next two years to organizations supporting women and girls around the world. French Gates will leave the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which she co-founded with her ex-husband Bill Gates, next week and receive $12.5 billion from Gates as part of their divorce
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY and ANNIE RISEMBERG Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African opposition parties made a final appeal to voters Tuesday as the country faces the possibility of a landmark change in its young democracy. At the heart of Wednesday’s national election is the question of whether South Africans will deliver
Continue Reading By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Ten people were killed and 160 others, including children, were abducted during a raid by suspected Boko Haram militants on a remote village in north-central Nigeria, a local official told CNN on Monday. The attack occurred in Kuchi village, Munya district, in Niger state, beginning at about 5:30 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Holly, Samantha Sosa, Rubén Rosario Click here for updates on this story MIAMI GARDENS, Florida (WSVN) — A shocking shootout in the streets of Miami Gardens left a barrage of bullet holes in a home and neighbors in fear for their safety. Doorbell camera video posted to social media shows a gunman creeping
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s campaign has showed up outside former President Donald Trump’s New York City criminal hush money trial in an effort to refocus the presidential race on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Biden’s team had largely ignored the trial since it began
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With stubborn inflation and higher costs, layoffs at small businesses are sometimes a necessity. U.S.-based employers announced 64,789 cuts in April, down 28% from 90,309 cuts announced in March, according to a report by global outplacement and business and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray &
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A lost Caravaggio painting that was almost mistakenly sold at auction for a bargain price has gone on display at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, after being rescued and restored. “Ecce Homo,” which was painted by the Italian master around 1606-09, will feature in a special one-piece exhibition
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The general manager of Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala has bidden a bittersweet farewell to the theater during the presentation of 2024-25 season, saying he would have been happy to continue. Dominique Meyer will finish up his contract, which runs out at the end of February, but
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — With a reputation among baseball players and fans as one of the worst umpires in the game, the baseball world will no longer have Ángel Hernández to kick around. The umpire that fans and players loved to hate – one of the more controversial figures in the game –
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