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Donald Trump is sticking with longtime friend and special envoy for peace missions, Steve Witkoff, even as a report late Tuesday appeared to portray Witkoff as coaching an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin on how to approach the U.S. president. CBC | World News
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BBC leaders grilled by lawmakers after Trump threatened to sue public broadcaster
The BBC’s chairman acknowledged Monday that it was too slow in responding to allegations of bias over a misleading edit of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump, but rejected claims that the broadcaster’s impartiality was being undermined from within its own board. CBC | World News
Read More »‘No more thoughts and prayers’: Minnesota lawmakers and advocates plead for gun control
Lawmakers from several levels of government were joined by gun control advocates in Minneapolis Thursday to call for state and federal gun control in the wake of a shooting at a Catholic church Wednesday in which two children were killed and 18 other people, mostly kids, were wounded. CBC | World News
Read More »Brazil lawmakers gut environmental licensing ahead of UN climate summit
Brazil’s congress passed legislation on Thursday loosening environmental licensing, a potential blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as he seeks to burnish his country’s green credentials before hosting the United Nations global climate summit, COP30, this year. CBC | World News
Read More »Accused in Minnesota shooting of lawmakers went to homes of 2 other politicians
The suspect in the shooting of two Minnesota state lawmakers went to the homes of two other legislators on the night of the shootings with the intention of targeting them, federal prosecutors said. CBC | World News
Read More »Man suspected of shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers caught: source
The man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, killing one of them, has been taken into custody, a law enforcement official said. CBC | World News
Read More »Man suspected of shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers still at large
A massive manhunt entered a second day on Sunday in Minnesota for the suspected gunman who killed a Democratic state lawmaker while posing as a police officer, a crime that Governor Tim Walz characterized as a “politically motivated assassination.” CBC | World News
Read More »2 Minnesota lawmakers and spouses shot in their homes, ex-state House Speaker and husband dead: governor
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed Saturday in a politically motivated assassination, and a second lawmaker and his wife were shot and wounded. The public safety commissioner says the suspect, who has yet to be captured, was posing as a law enforcement officer. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. lawmakers call for Signal chat probe, as Justice Department appears uninterested
Some U.S. senators sent a letter to the inspector general at the Department of Defence to formally request an investigation into how top Trump national security officials used Signal to discuss military strikes. CBC | World News
Read More »Iowa lawmakers vote to remove gender identity protections from civil rights code
Iowa lawmakers voted to remove gender identity protections from the state’s civil rights code Thursday despite massive protests by opponents and human rights advocates who say it could expose transgender people to discrimination in numerous areas of life. CBC | World News
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