Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Virginia General Assembly tabling Commanders stadium bill
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The General Assembly is tabling for the year legislation intended to lure the Washington Commanders to Virginia, a top state lawmaker said Thursday. Democratic Senate Majority Lea...
Canadian Press Jun 09, 2022

Official: 4 dead, 1 unaccounted for in Marine aircraft crash
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Four Marines were killed and another is missing after an Osprey aircraft crashed in the Southern California desert, a military official said Thursday, a day after the accident. The of...
Canadian Press Jun 09, 2022

Canada would need to spend $75.3B more to reach NATO defence spending target: PBO
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would need to spend an additional $75.3 billion on defence over the next five years for Canada to reach NATO's target of two per c...
Canadian Press Jun 09, 2022

Meet Pythagoras: Mathematician, Philosopher, and Bean Hater
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! We don't know much about the life of Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, who was born around 570 BC. He is most famous for giving us the Pythag...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Jun 09, 2022

Justice Department opens probe into Louisiana State Police
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department is opening a "pattern-or-practice" investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has looked the other way in ...
Canadian Press Jun 09, 2022

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Crown drops case in shipbuilding leak trial
OTTAWA - The Crown is dropping its case against federal bureaucrat Matthew Matchett, accused of leaking secret cabinet documents about a $700-million shipbuilding contract. More coming. This report by...
Canadian Press Jun 09, 2022

Study casts doubt on corporate contributions to fight against climate change
Companies touting their use of renewable energy may be overstating their contributions to the fight against climate change, new research suggests. “There’s a big role for scrutiny of compa...
Canadian Press Jun 09, 2022

Sentencing arguments expected for man in fatal shooting outside Walmart in Alberta
RED DEER, Alta. - A sentencing hearing is to begin today for a man who shot and killed a shopper outside a Walmart store in central Alberta. Chase Freed, who is 20, pleaded guilty on Monday to the sec...
Canadian Press Jun 09, 2022

UN nuclear watchdog: Iran removing 27 surveillance cameras
VIENNA (AP) - The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday that Iran is removing 27 surveillance cameras from nuclear sites in the country. Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-ge...
Canadian Press Jun 09, 2022

Jan. 6 Capitol attack committee goes prime time with probe
WASHINGTON (AP) - With never-seen video, new audio and a "mountain of evidence," the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will attempt to show not only the deadly violen...
Canadian Press Jun 09, 2022