Lady Gaga made quite an entrance Thursday at the Los Angeles premiere of her concert film “Gaga Chromatic Ball,” and caused an even bigger splash when she told the crowd she “did five shows with COVID” during the eponymous tour in 2022, per social media footage. “I shared it with everyone on my team,” Gaga … Read more
A highly publicized trial in Massachusetts involving a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank is finishing its fourth week on Friday. John O’Keefe, 46, died in the Boston suburb of Canton on Jan. 29, 2022. Prosecutors say Karen Read, … Read more
DENVER – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is set to sign two bills Friday that overhaul the state’s oversight of the funeral home industry after a series of gruesome discoveries, including 190 decomposing bodies in a facility, families being sent fake ashes and the unauthorized sale of body parts. The cases put Colorado’s lax … Read more
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says retail sales fell 0.2 per cent to $66.4 billion in March, weighed down by lower sales at furniture, home furnishings, electronics and appliances retailers. However, the agency says its early estimate for April says retail sales increased 0.7 per cent for that month. Statistics Canada says the … Read more
LONGON – Kabosu, the dog that launched a thousand “doge” memes, has died, her owner announced Friday. The Japanese shiba inu “fell into a deep sleep” on Friday morning at 18 years of age, Atsuko Sato wrote in a blogpost. “Outside the window, birds were singing on a beautiful morning. As I was touching her, … Read more
THE HAGUE – Judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Reading out a ruling by the International Court of Justice or World Court, the body’s president Nawaf Salam said provisional measures ordered by the court in March … Read more
It began last month with the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister. Then the head of the ministry’s personnel directorate was hauled into court. This week, two more senior military officials were detained. All face charges of corruption, which they have denied. The arrests started shortly before President Vladimir Putin began his … Read more
The federal government has unfurled a new cybersecurity strategy aimed at protecting its vast array of computer systems and information banks against a growing variety of threats. The strategy released Wednesday says while the government has made progress on improving cybersecurity in recent years, the online dangers have advanced even faster. A … Read more
Canada Post needs drastic measures to staunch the fiscal bleeding and revamp its operations after a tough decade, experts say. The Crown corporation lost $748 million before taxes in 2023, its second-worst year on record as Canadians sent fewer letters while competitors gobbled up even more of the parcel market. Some observers … Read more
Canadian soldiers and government officials arrived in northeastern France this week for a historic mission: returning an unknown Newfoundland soldier back home. The unknown soldier will return to Newfoundland and Labrador immediately after his remains are handed back to Canadian troops in a ceremony at Beaumont-Hamel on Saturday. Beaumont-Hamel was the site of a devastating … Read more
