Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES ‘Weird,’ ‘Alarming,’ ‘Confusing’ and ‘Crazy’ William B. Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, has told House impeachment investigators that President Trump directly linked an order to withhold American security aid to Ukraine to his demand that the country’s government publicly announce investigations into his […]
IRBIL, Iraq — In 2014, Kurdish-led forces, aided by U.S. air power, pushed back Islamic State militants who invaded the Syrian city of Kobani. The city of Raqqah — the headquarters of the extremists’ self-declared caliphate in Syria — fell to the same Kurdish-led militiamen in 2017. Those triumphs, which cost thousands of Kurdish lives, were […]
SANTIAGO, Chile — “The people, united, will never be defeated,” chanted a lone masked woman in the middle of Plaza Baquedano, a central gathering spot in Chile’s capital. As she repeated the phrase, thousands of people, mostly young, ran in all directions, fleeing water cannons and tear gas, as Chilean police sought to disperse some 20,000 […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Former Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that he would work to enshrine into federal law the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision upholding abortion rights, as the Democratic presidential frontrunner seeks to mollify critics of his record on reproductive issues. Biden, speaking at a Planned Parenthood forum two weeks after reversing […]
REGINA – Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer stayed firmly in campaign mode Tuesday, accusing Justin Trudeau of being solely responsible for stark regional divisions reflected in the election results. The day after the election, Scheer told reporters in Regina that the final seat tallies — which showed the resurgence of the separatist Bloc Québécois and a […]
EDMONTON — A man says he defaced a mural of teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg because he wanted to take a stand peacefully and the artist who created it says he doesn’t mind. James Bagnall says he wrote “stop the lies” and “this is oil country” on the painting of the 16-year-old girl against […]
He said Canadians would make their choice at the ballot box. “This carbon tax, it’s not going to be the courts that are going to decide,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Aug. 22. “The people are going to decide when the election is held … Once the people decide, I believe in democracy, I respect […]
KELOWNA, B.C. — Was the Liberal win in Kelowna–Lake Country a blip, or could it be a beachhead? Stephen Fuhr, the Grit incumbent who won a surprise victory in 2015, is hoping to replicate his unlikely win in a riding that hadn’t seen a Liberal elected since Pierre Elliott Trudeau was prime minister. In a […]
President Donald Trump’s insistence on shutting down much of the government inadvertently handed his reelection team the opening issue of the 2020 campaign. It’s one many Trump political advisers would rather avoid. Some Trump campaign aides worry that his showdown with congressional Democrats is framing his 2020 bid in a dangerously divisive way. But they […]
Joe Biden is the top choice of nearly a third of Iowa Democrats likely to participate in the 2020 presidential caucuses — putting the former vice president atop a roughly 20-candidate field 14 months ahead of the first votes, according to a new poll released Saturday. The first Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom survey before the 2020 […]