TORONTO (AP) — Barack Obama is urging Canadians to reelect Prime Minster Justin Trudeau, an apparently unprecedented endorsement of a candidate in a Canadian election by a former American president. Obama tweeted Wednesday that he was proud to work with Trudeau and described him as a hard-working, effective leader who takes on big issues like […]
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Jane Fonda Arrested At Climate Change Protest
Jane Fonda was arrested by Capitol police Friday — and it’s part of her plan to address climate change. The 81-year-old actress and longtime activist was seen being led away from the steps of the Capitol during a climate change protest with her hands tied behind her back. Fifteen other activists were also arrested. Fonda […]
Al Qaeda Leader Calls For Terror Attacks On Americans
He has managed to evade authorities for more than 18 years, but Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri is still using his platform to call for bloodshed from the shadows. To mark the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the terror leader called on Muslims to attack U.S., European, Israeli and Russian targets in a […]
Iran Moving Forward With Nukes, Warns European Powers
Iran is injecting uranium gas into advanced centrifuges in a further breach of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, officials said Saturday. The country’s atomic energy spokesman warned that “Europeans should know that there is not much time left” to save the 2015 deal. Iran has already gone beyond the stockpile and enrichment level […]
Dorian Death Toll At 30 And Rising
Anguish and frustration swirled through the Bahamas on Thursday as the government raised the death toll from Hurricane Dorian to 30. Bahamian Health Minister Duane Sands said the number could climb “significantly higher,” just days after the then-Category 5 storm ravaged the archipelago. The victims were from the Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, those hit […]
Pope Challenges World Powers To Take Climate Change Serious
Pope Francis on Sunday called on world governments to take “drastic” action on climate change. According to Reuters, he said that governments will have a “responsibility” at the United Nations Climate Action Summit later this month to show “the political will to take drastic measures to achieve as quickly as possible zero net greenhouse gas […]
Brazil Rejecting Help To Fight Out Of Control Amazon Forest
Brazil’s leaders are rejecting a $20 million offer from Group of Seven (G-7) member nations to help fight fires in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil’s ambassador to France said on French TV that the fund was “interference” and was approved without Brazil, according to Politico Europe. “We refuse because we see interference. [It’s] help we didn’t […]
China Announces New Tariffs On $75B Of American Goods
China announced Friday it will impose tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S. goods, the latest salvo in the year-plus trade war between the world’s two largest economies. The country’s State Council said tariffs of 5 percent to 10 percent will be imposed on a variety of American goods in two batches, with the first […]
Judge In Mexico Approves Recreational Cocaine Use
The court said it would allow both claimants to “possess, transport and use cocaine” but not sell it, according to Mexico United Against Crime (MUCD). MUCD, which seeks to end the country’s “war on drugs”, called the ruling a “historic step”. The decision must be reviewed by a higher court before it is enforced. MUCD […]
4 Killed During Stabbing Spree In Southern California
The deadly spree began at 4:23 p.m. local time when the suspect robbed a bakery in Garden Grove, California, a few miles south of Anaheim. At 5:04 p.m., police said they found two men stabbed at a nearby apartment complex. One of those victims was pronounced dead at the scene, while another died at the […]
Forced Abortions Part Of North Korean Human Rights Abuses
Experts that spoke to Fox News said China is complicit in the abuse, and have said in cases where involuntary abortions aren’t ordered, North Korean officials engage in outright infanticide. “Terrifying reports from female defectors depict undergoing forced abortions after they fled to what they thought was freedom in China, only to be repatriated back […]
American Teens Arrested For Murder Of Italian Police Officer
Two Americans arrested in connection with the death of an Italian paramilitary officer had blamed each other for committing murder, court documents sent to reporters show. Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, and Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, both from Mill Valley, California, were detained by police in Rome on Friday for alleged homicide and attempted extortion. Read […]