27,000 chickens killed in British Columbia fire that destroyed two barns
TOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA — A fire at a farm in the Township of Langley, B.C., has destroyed two large barns, killing thousands of chickens. Deputy Fire Chief Cory Parker with the Township of Langley Fire Department says crews...
Trump moves to toughen US policy on Cuba
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has instructed his top Cabinet officers to review U.S. policy toward Cuba, ordering them to examine current sanctions and come up with ways to toughen them within 30 days. In a memo Monday, Trump...
Netanyahu will visit the White House next Monday as Trump presses for a ceasefire in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks at the White House next Monday as the U.S. leader steps up his push on the Israeli government and Hamas to broker a ceasefire and...
Iranian cyberattacks remain a threat despite ceasefire, US officials warn
WASHINGTON (AP) — A ceasefire between Iran and Israel has not ended the threat of cyberattacks from hacking groups supportive of Tehran, the FBI and federal cybersecurity officials warned Monday. In a public bulletin, the authorities warned that hacking groups...
Bush, Obama – and singer Bono – fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for...
Leaving first show at Toronto’s new Rogers Stadium was a ‘nightmare’: concertgoer
TORONTO — Fans who attended the inaugural concert at Toronto’s new Rogers Stadium on Sunday night are calling for better crowd control after some say it took up to two hours to exit the venue. With performances set to take...
2 killed, 1 wounded in sniper ambush as Idaho firefighters come under siege from rifle...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two firefighters were killed Sunday and another was wounded when they were ambushed by sniper fire while responding to a blaze in a northern Idaho mountain community, as crews endured a barrage of gunfire over several...
CIA chief told lawmakers Iran nuclear program set back years with strikes on metal conversion...
WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director John Ratcliffe told skeptical U.S. lawmakers that American military strikes destroyed Iran’s lone metal conversion facility and in the process delivered a monumental setback to Tehran’s nuclear program that would take years to overcome, a...
Section of southbound DVP closed after 4-vehicle crash
A section of the southbound and northbound Don Valley Parkway (DVP), and Don Mills Road has been closed after four vehicles have been involved in a collision. Police say all southbound lanes are blocked, while only one northbound lane is...
Canada rescinds digital services tax to restart talks with the United States
Canada has rescinded its digital services tax in hopes to advance trade negotiations with the U.S., Canada’s finance ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The digital services tax would have required American technology companies such as Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc....
