U.S. special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on president-elect Donald Trump, an expected move that comes amid legal wrangling over how much of that document can be made public in the days ahead. CBC | World News
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‘Zombie facts’ live on after black plastic and other studies get corrected or retracted
Headlines warning people to throw out their black plastic kitchen utensils live on, as do social media posts warning of “secret toxins” in your kitchen. Less prominent? A correction to the peer-reviewed study those headlines were based on. CBC | World News
Read More »Ahead of Trump presidency, U.S. banks abandon Mark Carney climate initiative
All major U.S. banks have quit a climate initiative known as the Net-Zero Banking Alliance. Formed in 2021 as a subgroup of a Mark Carney-led climate finance group, it now faces an uncertain future, even as Canadian and European banks remain for now. CBC | World News
Read More »Meghan fans sent into frenzy as US media gives her new two-word nickname after LA outing
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, was referred to as Princess Markle by a US media outlet. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Netanyahu OKs sending Israeli intelligence boss to Qatar for Gaza ceasefire talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar, his office said Saturday, in a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza. CBC | World News
Read More »Black boxes from South Korea plane crash failed to record final 4 minutes, officials say
The black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, South Korean officials said Saturday, possibly complicating investigations into the cause of the disaster that killed 179 people. CBC | World News
Read More »Largest of deadly Los Angeles wildfires switches direction, posing new threat
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Read More »Reform UK LIVE: Farage tipped for PM triumph by unsuspected rival hours before convention
Nigel Farage has been tipped for Downing Street by an old political opponent who said Labour were making ‘unbelievably terrible’ decisions. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Shocking new figures show just how many migrants make it to UK on small boats
EXCLUSIVE: A deep analysis of crossing data for the first time shows a staggeringly high success rate of four in five completing the 21-mile sea voyage. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Rachel Reeves told to stop ‘hiding in China’ and stop pushing UK back to the 70s
Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer are accused of putting a ‘bullet through the heart of entrepreneurial, aspirational Britain’ Daily Express :: News Feed
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