US & World

U.S. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an “agreement in principle” to raise the nation’s legal debt ceiling, but now Congress must rush to approve the spending cuts package in a matter of days to avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default.  Support from both parties needed to …

A British coroner on Friday urged police to wrap up their investigation into a 2021 suicide, amid authorities’ renewed scrutiny of an Ontario man’s controversial website. Kenneth Law, of Mississauga, Ont., is accused of selling a toxic substance online to at-risk individuals in multiple countries.  Coroner’s inquest probing student’s 2021 …

Now that Ron DeSantis is officially running to become the Republican nominee for the U.S. presidential election in 2024, voters can examine his time as Florida’s governor to get a better sense of his priorities. And while his campaign is just beginning, Florida serves as an initial blueprint for how …

South Korean authorities detained a man on Friday after he opened a door of an Asiana Airlines plane minutes before it was due to land in the city of Daegu, causing panic among the passengers, officials said. Man detained after Asiana Airlines plane lands safely, some passengers treated at hospital …

At least one person was killed and 15 wounded in a Russian missile strike on a clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denouncing the attack as a crime against humanity.  At least 1 person was killed, 15 wounded in attack Zelenskyy …

The world’s 20 richest countries are fuelling forced labour and account for over half the estimated 50 million people living in “modern slavery,” according to a report released by a human rights group Wednesday.  Plight of those in forced labour or marriage ‘hidden in plain sight’ around the world, human …

Cross-border attacks in Russia’s Belgorod region this week have brought attention to Russian militias that have been fighting against their own country, as it wages war on Ukraine.  2 groups of anti-Kremlin fighters say they are behind an incursion into western Russia. Cross-border attacks in Russia’s Belgorod region this week …

Daniel Saldana, a California man who spent 33 years in prison for attempted murder after a 1989 shooting, has been declared innocent and freed, the Los Angeles County district attorney announced Thursday.  Official heard Daniel Saldana was potentially innocent 6 years ago, but ‘did nothing,’ district attorney says. A California …

A warming in a region of the Pacific Ocean is signalling a potential El Niño, which affects weather around the globe. But there isn't just one type of El Niño, so what can we expect? Typically, El Niño affects Canada in the winter and spring, bringing milder temperatures A global …

While the technical issues that plagued the launch of Ron DeSantis’s 2024 Republican presidential bid on Twitter were certainly a poor start to kick off his national campaign, there are by far much more pressing challenges facing the Florida governor.  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis officially launched his presidential campaign. The …