With her trademark red lipstick and a killer right arm that easily sweeps her opponents out of her way, US women’s rugby center Ilona Maher ran Team USA toward its first bronze this week at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. But her reaction to hecklers who call her masculine and criticize her weight as “obese” is winning … Read more
HONOLULU – The parties in lawsuits seeking damages for last year’s Maui wildfires have reached a US$4-billion global settlement, a court filing said Friday, nearly one year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. The term sheet with details of the settlement is not publicly available, but the liaison attorneys … Read more
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday revoked plea deals agreed to earlier this week with the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two accomplices, who are held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Pentagon said on Wednesday the plea deals had been … Read more
Miriam Butorin was supposed to attend Taylor Swift’s concert on Friday for her 13th birthday. She is missing it, but for the very best reason. Miriam’s mother, Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, was released Thursday from Russian detention in a historic prisoner swap. The release of the 47-year-old journalist for the U.S.-backed Radio Free Europe/Radio … Read more
New York – A U.S. judge formally ended Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy on Friday — a move that lets sexual harassment, defamation and other lawsuits proceed against him stemming from his past work for former President Donald Trump — following a two-week delay precipitated by his failure to pay certain legal fees. Giuliani, 80, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy … Read more
OTTAWA – The mother of a witness who stormed out of a House of Commons committee in tears is berating Liberals, NDP and Conservative members for a “disgusting” partisan display in a letter she plans to share with MPs. Carolyn Alexander’s daughter Cait is a domestic violence survivor who gave harrowing testimony at … Read more
A few sleuthy social media users mind-melded to try to solve a mystery that was shared on Facebook Thursday after the discovery of a lost wallet in a parkade in downtown Calgary. A posting by “Sa R Ah” asked Facebook users if they recognized a woman in a photo discovered inside the abandoned wallet. The … Read more
A Florida attorney pleaded guilty on Friday to using a rifle to try to detonate explosives outside the Chinese embassy last year in Washington, D.C. Christopher Rodriguez also bombed a sculpture of communist leaders Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong in a courtyard outside the Texas Public Radio building in San Antonio, Texas, in … Read more
KANSAS, Mo. – An airline passenger who tried to craft a shank from plastic cutlery and open the cockpit door during a flight has been sentenced to 19 months in prison. A federal judge in Missouri handed down the sentence Thursday against Juan Remberto Rivas, 52. Prosecutors sought a term of between … Read more
LONDON, England – A driver was arrested early Friday morning in Dublin after crashing his van into gates outside the home of Ireland’s president, the offices of the prime minister and the building housing parliament, police said. Detectives questioning the suspect had ruled out terrorism as a motive. The series of incidents … Read more
