SEOUL, South Korea – The recent heavy rains in northwestern North Korea flooded thousands of houses and a vast extent of farmland and left many residents homeless and living in makeshift tents, North Korea’s state media reported Wednesday. North Korea earlier said more than 5,000 people stranded in Sinuiju city and Uiju town … Read more
BALTIMORE (AP) – Corbin Burnes took a two-hitter into the seventh inning, Ramón Urías and Anthony Santander homered and the Baltimore Orioles beat the depleted Toronto Blue Jays 6-2 on Tuesday night. Baltimore built a 4-0 lead in the third inning and improved to 6-6 since the MLB All-Star break to remain atop … Read more
A Federal Court judge has thrown out a convicted killer’s challenge of a British Columbia prison warden’s decision not to allow the inmate to have an electric guitar in his cell. A decision handed down last week says Patrick Fischer is an inmate at Kent Institution, a maximum-security prison in Agassiz, B.C., but … Read more
R. Kelly – who is currently serving a more than a 30-year prison sentence in North Carolina – is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of his federal sex crimes convictions. The disgraced R&B singer’s defence attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, has filed a petition to the Supreme Court, requesting to throw … Read more
BILLINGS, Mont. – Warning: This article contains content that may be disturbing to readers. Discretion is advised. At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by Interior Department officials who called on the government to apologize for … Read more
Consumers have reached their breaking point with $6 iced coffees and lemonades at Starbucks. Starbucks sales dropped three per cent globally at stores open for at least a year, including a two per cent drop in its home North America market. And that masked how steep the decline was for Starbucks last quarter: … Read more
NEW YORK – The director of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 vision for a complete overhaul of the federal government has stepped down, the conservative think tank confirmed Tuesday. Paul Dans’ exit comes after the project “completed exactly what it set out to do: bringing together over 110 leading conservative organizations to create … Read more
A Montreal store owner is elated after watching two of Hollywood’s biggest stars sample his hot sauce on a prominent YouTube show. Mark Cregan, owner of Mark’s Hot Sauce in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough, saw his fermented kimchi recipe featured on Hot Ones, a YouTube show where guests try different hot sauce recipes. … Read more
The federal Conservatives are shifting their focus from the governing Liberals to take aim at the NDP in a new attack ad. The new ad — set to release Tuesday afternoon — labels NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh as “sellout Singh,” and sees him featured in a fake magazine spread, titled “luxury pensioner monthly,” … Read more
OTTAWA – Ontario Conservative MP Karen Vecchio says she will not be seeking re-election. Vecchio made the announcement on 94.1 myFM, a radio station in St. Thomas, Ont. She says she believes every politician has an expiry date, and she knows when it’s time for her to be at home. Vecchio … Read more
