With Discounts on Offer, Shoppers Seem to Bite
For weeks, businesses have been sending consumers endless offers of discounts on all sorts of items. Finally, on this long weekend, it appears that consumers bit. Preliminary data released on…
What a Deadly Offensive in Syria Means for a Stalled Civil War
Syrian opposition fighters have launched their most significant offensive in years against government forces, heating up a civil war that had long been at a stalemate. The new rebel push…
Justin Trudeau in Florida to meet Donald Trump
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Florida to meet Donald Trump as Canada seeks to head off the president-elect’s threat to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods, a source…
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s top spy pick, faces fresh scrutiny over Syria and Russia positions
Getty Images Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s controversial 2017 meeting with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and past statements on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have drawn fresh scrutiny after President-elect Donald Trump…
Canada town offered alternative after refusal to take King’s oath
A Canadian territory has changed its rules for elected municipal officials, allowing them to take an oath pledging allegiance to the country’s constitution instead of the British Crown when they…
Husband in Iowa decorates entire street for wife’s Christmas joy
A man in Iowa has decorated his entire street to honour his wife, who loves Christmas. His wife, Joan, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s four years ago and since then, her…
Did JFK’s assassination help The Beatles break the US?
Getty Images In Beatles ’64, the new documentary which charts the impact of the band’s first US tour and how it catapulted them to global superstardom, Paul McCartney makes a…
Hitman offered $71,000 for Canadian reporter’s assassination
A hitman offered C$100,000 ($71,400; £56,000) for the assassination of a crime reporter at Montreal newspaper La Presse, the outlet has reported. Convicted killer Frédérick Silva confessed to La Presse…
Major Canadian news outlets sue OpenAI
A coalition of Canada’s biggest news outlets is suing OpenAI, the maker of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, alleging the company is illegally using news articles to train its software. News…
Opinion | Why I’m Not Giving up on American Democracy
In his dank Budapest prison cell in the mid-1950s, my father imagined he heard Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony. Though no one in my family had ever set foot in the…