Ontario superjail revamps fire-safety plan after series of false alarms
The Toronto South Detention Centre has been plagued by false alarms, malfunctions and mishandlings
The Toronto South Detention Centre has been plagued by false alarms, malfunctions and mishandlings
Cristiano Ronaldo sports black toenail polish and relaxes poolside with some friends on Monday (August 1) in Miami, Florida. The 31-year-old soccer star has been working on his tan lately – he spent the day before at the pool as well after spending the earlier part of the week poolside in Los Angeles. Cristiano was [...]
At least one person was shot after police opened fire in Queens Monday afternoon, police said.
The bomb was detonated by remote control as the vehicle passed through a road in Bingol Province.
A group of six Estonian military instructors left for Iraq on Monday to provide anti-Daesh training to national troops, the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Forces said in a statement.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has long demonized his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, such as referring to her as “Crooked Hillary,” his chosen nickname.
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Typhoon Nida churned through Hong Kong on Tuesday, shutting down most of the financial hub with gale-force winds.
By Daniel Kai and Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's election board said on Monday the opposition successfully collected 1 percent of voter signatures in every state in the first phase of their push for a referendum to recall socialist President Nicolas Maduro. The timing is crucial because if Maduro were to lose a referendum this year, as polls indicate he would due to an economic crisis, that would trigger a new presidential vote, giving the opposition a chance to end 17 years of socialism. Читать дальше...
A pro-Russia rally in Yevpatoria, Crimea, in March 2014, shortly before the Russian annexation.
Australia's housing market may be frothy, but it doesn't appear likely to be a bursting bubble anytime soon, this big broker indicates.
NEW YORK (AP) — Award-winning novelist Jonathan Franzen has an admittedly uncomfortable reason for why he doesn't expect to write a book about racial relations: He doesn't know many blacks.
The 25th year of Lollapalooza is now one for the history books Wikipedia pages. After four days, countless footsteps (unless you have a FitBit) and...
Just over 63 years after a cease-fire ended the bitter and bloody Korean War, veterans finally got a memorial in San Francisco on Monday to remember a conflict that many Americans call the forgotten war. The new memorial is a long, curving piece of granite in the Presidio with pictures and plaques to recall a war that lasted three years and cost more than 37,000 American dead and many thousands more Korean and Chinese lives. “It was a war that had to be fought, and I was proud to have fought in it,” said Paul “Pete” McCloskey... Читать дальше...
Brent Luyster could face the death penalty if he is convicted of murdering three people in Woodland, though it’s unlikely such a sentence would be carried out if Gov. Jay Inslee is re-elected in November.
Until recently, France’s politicians had largely presented a united front against terrorist attacks. Rarely did they use tragedy to score points off each other. But that has started to change over the past year. Now a political controversy has erupted in the wake of the massacre in Nice on Bastille Day 2016. It will no doubt be further fueled by the killing of a Catholic priest near Rouen.
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Each received a certificate to prove his or her citizenship during a ceremony that at several points became a rebuke of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose criticism of Gold Star parents of a Muslim soldier caused a national outcry over the weekend. “We know that in the city of Oakland, what makes America great, what makes America proud, is our diversity,” said Mayor Libby Schaaf, contorting Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan to promote what she says are her city’s core values: openness and inclusivity. Читать дальше...
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron Rodgers is looking forward to watching Brett Favre’s induction ceremony into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The guy who replaced Favre, extending a seamless line of stellar quarterback play with the Green Bay Packers, will be making his first visit to the museum. The enshrinement ceremony
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' tax collections fell nearly $13 million short of expectations in July, and the report of the shortfall Monday came on the eve of a primary election in which Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's critics hoped to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' tax collections fell nearly $13 million short of expectations in July, and the report of the shortfall Monday came on the eve of a primary election in which Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's critics hoped to…
Local pols and the city’s top cop are hyping a gun buyback program in the Bronx as another step to stop shootings.
Donald J. Trump, center, as a high school senior in 1964 at the New York Military Academy.
Jordan Fletcher and Robby Hayes met with JoJo Fletcher‘s parents during the season finale of The Bachelorette, but only one of them asked her parents for their blessing. While Robby had a special moment with the parents and received their blessing for JoJo‘s hand in marriage, Jordan says that he “forgot” to ask. JoJo has [...]
Anton Yelchin's parents have filed court documents indicating the "Star Trek" actor died without a will and left behind a nearly $1.4 million estate ...