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Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s disaster plan 2 days before deadly flood, records show

HUNT, Texas (AP) — Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning just two days before catastrophic flooding killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children. The Department of State Health...

Jul 9, 2025 | News

Trump says he will hit copper imports with 50 per cent tariffs

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will impose a 50 per cent tariff on copper imports — but hasn’t said yet when it will take effect. “Today we are doing copper,” Trump told reporters at a cabinet...

Jul 9, 2025 | News

Trump caught off guard by Pentagon’s abrupt move to pause Ukraine weapons deliveries, AP sources...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s decision to send more defensive weapons to Ukraine came after he privately expressed frustration with Pentagon officials for announcing a pause in some deliveries last week — a move that he felt wasn’t properly...

Jul 9, 2025 | News

Trump comes to Bondi’s defense amid uproar from his base over Jeffrey Epstein files flop

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump leaped to the defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday in the face of mounting criticism from far-right influencers and conservative internet personalities over the Justice Department’s abrupt refusal to release additional documents...

Jul 9, 2025 | News

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sentencing set for Oct. 3 after split verdict in federal sex crimes...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced in his federal criminal case on Oct. 3, a judge said Tuesday after probation officials rejected the defense and prosecution’s plan to move the date up by about two weeks....

Jul 9, 2025 | News

Trump says he’s ‘not happy’ with Putin and blames him for ‘killing a lot of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s “not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, saying Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine is “killing a lot of people” on both sides. “I’m not happy with him, I can...

Jul 9, 2025 | News

Man, 31, dies after car rear-ends tractor trailer on Hwy. 407 in Brampton

A 31-year-old Toronto man has died of his injuries after a car rear-ended a tractor trailer on Highway 407 in Brampton Monday morning. Provincial police were notified of a crash just before 5 a.m. on the eastbound portion of the...

Jul 9, 2025 | News

Youth cyclist injured in collision with vehicle in Vaughan

A youth has been taken to hospital after colliding with a vehicle while on a bicycle in Vaughan. York police were called to Dufferin Street and Beverly Glen Boulevard just before 3 p.m. The extent of the youth’s injuries is...

Jul 9, 2025 | News

Hudson’s Bay lender fighting retailer’s Ruby Liu deal, seeking ‘super monitor’: docs

TORONTO — One of Hudson’s Bay’s biggest lenders says the department store chain has handled its liquidation so badly that a court should end a buzzy but fraught lease transaction the retailer signed with a B.C. billionaire and subject the...

Jul 9, 2025 | News

1 dead, 4 injured in fiery crash on the Gardiner Expressway

A multi-vehicle crash has left one person dead, four others injured and has closed the westbound lanes of the Gardiner Expressway. Toronto police and fire are on the scene of the fiery collision that happened just after 5:30 Tuesday evening...

Jul 9, 2025 | News