A statue of the brother of Syrian President Bashar Assad appeared to be toppled over in the city of Aleppo. Footage filmed by a freelance journalist showed the sculpture of Bassel Assad being pulled down by protesters on Saturday.
With the price of rental units at an all-time high, tenants are being billed for extra costs they didn’t expect on top of rent. Now the federal government is taking up the case.
OTTAWA — Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday that Donald Trump's return to the presidency is the reason she would repeal changes to the capital gains tax she introduced just last year.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court sided with Democrats on Friday in a power struggle with Republicans in the state House of Representatives but left it up to lawmakers to figure out a way to work together.
President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd.
Fearing federal agents asking to search a Chicago elementary school Friday morning were from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, school officials denied them entry. But it turned out they were US Secret Service agents pursuing an investigation.
Liberal leadership contender Karina Gould said Thursday the government she was a part of for years mishandled the affordability crisis and did not effectively respond to Canadians who were crying out for relief at a time of high inflation.While criticizing the government's approach to the cost of living, Gould also repudiated some of the government's other major policies, namely the capital gains tax hike and upcoming increases to the carbon tax."We have to be honest about the fact that Canadian
Republicans in the House and Senate introduced a bill Thursday called the Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act, upping the fight over parental rights. The goal of bill is to apply the strict scrutiny test to protect parental rights when it comes to government actions that affect parents’ “fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking reproductive rights facilities, calling the cases an example of the “weaponization” of law enforcement.
Donald Trump’s anti-wind orders dealt the final blow, but Joe Biden’s permitting reform failure started the death spiral.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) had an altercation with a reporter Wednesday noting Americans are “sick and f‑‑‑ing tired” of talking about Jan. 6, 2021. Punchbowl News reporter Melanie Zanona appeared to ask Greene a question about the invitation extended by her conservative colleague Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) to give guided tours of Congress to…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Jamaica have killed a top gang leader whose death unleashed a violent backlash near the capital of Kingston Thursday.
The federal government will lend $1 billion to Canada Post for the 2025-26 fiscal year so that it can continue operating while dealing with "significant financial challenges," the postal service said Friday.Canada Post says that Ottawa is making the repayable funds available within the regulations of the Canada Post Corporation Act, but that the money — totalling $1.034 billion — offers only a temporary financial boost and will not fix the Crown corporation's structural issues.The postal service
The largest Indigenous tribe east of the Mississippi River is on its way to federal recognition and full tribal benefits after President Donald Trump's order Thursday.
DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland's Micheál Martin was elected prime minister for the second time by a coalition of the country's two large centre-right parties and independents on Thursday, and set himself the task of warding off threats arising from Donald Trump's return as U.S. president. The government is bracing for the fallout from the new U.S. administration under Trump, whose pledges to upend corporate tax rules and impose tariffs pose a potentially major threat to Ireland's foreign multinational-focused economy. The coalition has promised to use a tax windfall from the country's cluster of U.S. multinationals to continue to increase public sector investment, fix infrastructure deficits and cut taxes, while also building Ireland's sovereign wealth funds.
The woman is facing charges including criminal threats, cruelty to an animal, threatening a public official, and possession of a short-barrel shotgun.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, paid $50,000 to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017, according to answers he provided to a senator during his confirmation process that The Associated Press has obtained.
Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland says she's running against the "Ottawa establishment" as more federal cabinet ministers rally around her top rival Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada."It's central to my campaign to see this not about Liberal elites deciding. This is about the grassroots," Freeland said in an interview on CBC's The House that will air on Saturday."I am really happy to be running against the Ottawa establishment. I think we need a change," Freeland told host C
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to reinstate a federal anti-money laundering law at the federal government’s request as a legal challenge proceeds in a lower court. The court’s emergency stay halts, for now, a federal judge’s injunction that blocked the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which would require millions of business entities to disclose personal information…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday rejected the idea of combining California wildfire aid with a debt ceiling hike, saying Democrats would oppose such a package if Republicans bring it to the floor. “It’s a nonstarter,” Jeffries said during a press briefing in the Capitol. The pushback could complicate the plans of Republican…
RCMP are calling on officers from across the country to help fill gaps in detachments in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.The police service's Manitoba division has confirmed it issued a countrywide callout for assistance in Manitoba and Saskatchewan amid a shortage of front-line officers last week.Assistant Commissioner Scott McMurchy, commanding officer of the Manitoba RCMP, said the province currently has about a 15 per cent vacancy rate as it deals with a growing number of complex investigations, i
