Miller Sanford Trump announced on Wednesday that Hoekstra, a former member of Congress for Michigan, will be his next U.S. ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra appears at a Donald Trump presidential campaign event in Freeland, Mich., May 1, 2024.Photo by Paul Sancya /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly is welcoming president-elect Donald Trump’s pick for … Read more
Phillips 66 faces federal charges over alleged wastewater dumping at Carson refinery The U.S. attorney’s office has accused the Phillips 66 Company of violating the federal Clean Water Act by dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of wastewater from its Carson oil refinery into the Los Angeles County sewer system. In an announcement Thursday, the … Read more
Monstrous killer and Tren de Aragua gangbanger Jose Ibarragot sentenced Wednesday to life without parole for his February murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. It should have been death. But Deborah Gonzalez, the leftist prosecutor initially in charge of the case, refused to seek the death penalty. Jose Ibarra listens through an interpreter during … Read more
Only Joe Biden, on his last summit appearance as U.S. President, was between them Justin Trudeau, Joe Biden and Narendra Modi participate in a group photo as part of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 19, 2024.Photo by Buda Mendes /Getty Images In an exchange that was mostly all smiles, Prime Minister … Read more
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses lawmakers in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem on Monday. (Ohad Zwigenberg / Associated Press) Deepening Israel’s international isolation in the starkest fashion since the start of the 13-month-old war in the Gaza Strip, the Hague-based International Criminal Court said Thursday it had issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime … Read more
Shares of Google parent Alphabet plunged more than 6% on Thursday after the Justice Department asked a federal judge to order a selloff of Google’s Chrome web browser – one of several remedies aimed at breaking up the Big Tech firm’s monopoly over online search. The stock drop signaled anxiety on Wall Street about Google’s future after … Read more
Panamera has dropped its wagon variants, but Taycan keeps up the good fight 2025 Porsche J2 Taycan GTSPhoto by Elle Alder Fast wagons offer their adherents a tasteful alternative to the usual conspicuous luxury buys. Parked along a high-street peacock pen of secondhand Bentleys and local leasing lot plate frames, these models eschew typically high-polish … Read more
In this 2018 photo, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua. (Alfredo Zuniga / Associated Press) Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega on Wednesday proposed a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo, “copresidents” of the Central American nation. … Read more
He would’ve knocked you into tomorrow, Jake. Sylvester Stallone, the legendary actor best known for playing fictional Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa, seems to think Mike Tyson took a dive against Jake Paul in favor of getting a payday. “Just to set my personal record straight. Business is business. SOMETIMES you have to do hard things … Read more
A complainant testified that an alleged incident damaged her ability to start relationships with trust and has put her in a position of having to be “on guard.” Ruben Adam Manz, a chiropractor currently on trial facing seven charges of sexual assault walks into the Court of King’s Bench on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 in … Read more