TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A new, smaller caravan of about 1,500 migrants started walking north from southern Mexico on Thursday, a week after a larger group that set out on Christmas Eve largely dissolved. The migrants, most from Central and South America, said they had grown tired of waiting in Mexico’s southern city of Tapachula, … Read more
With each crisis of the young Trump administration, reporters and pollsters have documented the steady support he continues to get from his most ardent backers, the roughly one in four Americans who consistently tell pollsters that they approve of his performance in office, agree with him on most issues and like his personality. Tuesday night … Read more
The numbers highlight “a golden opportunity” for government to better reallocate justice-related resources to the people who need them, says the report. British Columbia’s representative for children and youth, Jennifer Charlesworth, in Victoria on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. A new report has found that the number of young offenders in British Columbia has “dramatically decreased,” … Read more
B.C. Hydro says a vehicle crashed into a power pole, bringing the line down across both directions of the highway. A power line that fell over Highway 99 in Surrey cut off a key route to and from the U.S. Peace Arch Border Crossing for nearly three hours on Thursday.Postmedia News A power line that … Read more
Carol Liao, a University of B.C. Sauder fellow, said these incidents are not necessarily matters for legislation, but rather about accountability and ethics. Scenes from the Parkland Burnaby Refinery as the conduct operations following extreme chemical smells during an incident on January 21, in Burnaby, B.C., on January 25, 2024.(NICK PROCAYLO/POSTMEDIA)Photo by NICK PROCAYLO /10103633A … Read more
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen killed at least 50 villagers over two days in Nigeria’s north-central Plateau state, survivors said Thursday, prompting a 24-hour curfew and calls for authorities to end violence between nomadic cattle herders and farming communities. No group took responsibility for the killings that took place in remove villages over a two-day … Read more
A Pennsylvania law that makes it a crime to release information about teacher disciplinary complaints is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment, a federal judge has ruled. The judge sided with a school board member who sought to publicize a misconduct allegation against his son’s school psychologist — and criticize the state’s dismissal of … Read more
FILE – Chiara Ferragni poses for photographers as she arrives for the CNMI sustainable fashion 2023 awards in Milan, Italy, on Sept. 24, 2023. A scandal over an Italian influencer’s Christmas-cake involvement that authorities alleged misled consumers has inspired a government crackdown. The Italian Cabinet on Thursday approved proposed legislation that would provide for fines … Read more
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted a California man of murder for shooting to death a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back of his mother’s car on a busy freeway. Jurors in Orange County found 26-year-old Marcus Eriz guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Aiden Leos, who … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A rights group on Thursday reported dozens more home raids and arrests across Belarus in the latest intensification of a years-long crackdown on dissent in the country of 9.5 million people. The Viasna human rights center said it knew of at least 159 people targeted by searches and detentions in multiple … Read more