I try hard to surround myself with bad influences. Keeps suburban life interesting, if you know what I mean. As the kids grow older, my friends grow in number. I could fill my life with them, which is one of the reasons I’m stuck in L.A. after 30 years. What the apostles did for Jesus, […]
The shoulder of the highway from the Venezuelan border to the Colombian city of Bucaramanga is littered with empty tuna cans, broken shoes and plastic bottles. Hundreds of Venezuelans flee into Colombia each day to start this 125-mile journey on foot. They’re known as the caminantes, or walkers, and they are the latest wave in […]
NEWARK, N.J. — A United Airlines jetliner headed for Los Angeles returned to New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport early Thursday after flames were seen near a wing. Video showed flames soon after Flight 1871 had taken off. A passenger told New York’s WABC-TV it appeared fire was coming from an engine. “I didn’t know what […]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), while introducing House managers for the impeachment trial of President Trump in the Senate, cautions, “What is at stake here is the Constitution of the United States.” The Senate will begin work ahead of President Trump’s impeachment trial, with hints that more evidence may be on the way. TOP STORIES […]
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday fast-tracked work on constitutional changes that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024 while lawmakers quickly sealed his choice for new prime minister. Speaking to a working group created to draft constitutional changes, Putin cast his proposals as a way to strengthen […]
1/11 From left, Democratic presidential hopefuls billionaire-philanthropist Tom Steyer, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on stage ahead of the seventh Democratic primary debate. (Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images) 2/11 Elizabeth Warren greets Bernie Sanders. […]
TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford’s government is promising to compensate the parents of children affected by rotating teachers’ strikes, a move the educators’ union leaders called a “bribe” to win support in the midst of stalled labour negotiations. Under the plan, parents whose kids aren’t yet enrolled in school but attend school-based child-care centres affected by […]
A pipeline at the centre of a conflict between hereditary chiefs and a natural gas company in northern British Columbia is creating jobs for Indigenous people and lifting communities from poverty, says an elected chief of a band that supports the project. All 20 elected band councils along the Coastal GasLink pipeline route have signed […]
Former senior Conservative minister Peter MacKay has announced that he will run for the Tory leadership. MacKay, who served as a Nova Scotia MP from 1997 to 2015, made the announcement on Twitter Wednesday after weeks of reports that he was preparing to enter the contest to replace Andrew Scheer. “I’m in. Stay tuned,” he […]
British Columbia is bringing its feud with Trans Mountain to the Supreme Court Thursday, arguing it needs more authority over the pipeline and its proposed expansion to reduce the chances of heavy oil spills that would devastate the province’s sensitive ecosystems and harm residents’ health. B.C. says it is within its jurisdiction to require Trans […]