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For a few hours, America’s right-wing media treated fiction as fact, speculating the explosion at a Canada-U.S. border crossing near Niagara Falls was a terrorist attack from Canada — feeding calls for a northern border wall. CBC | World News
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U.S. demands immediate release of ship, crew seized by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
The United States on Monday denounced the seizure of a cargo ship in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement as a violation of international law and demanded the immediate release of the vessel and its crew. CBC | World News
Read More »Rosalynn Carter, humanitarian and wife of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, dead at 96
The Carter Center said she died Sunday after living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. says no deal yet between Israel and Hamas as work continues to pause fighting, release hostages
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Read More »More pandas will be headed to the U.S., China’s Xi suggests
Chinese President Xi Jinping signalled Wednesday that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.” CBC | World News
Read More »Scathing ethics report concludes embattled U.S. lawmaker George Santos ‘cannot be trusted’
The U.S. House ethics committee in a scathing report says it has amassed “overwhelming evidence” of lawbreaking by Rep. George Santos of New York that has been sent to the U.S. Justice Department, concluding flatly that the Republican “cannot be trusted” after a months-long investigation into his conduct. CBC | World News
Read More »Starbucks workers across U.S. set to walk off the job Thursday to protest work conditions
Workers at hundreds of Starbucks stores began walking off their jobs during a key promotional event on Thursday, demanding improved staffing and schedules, the Workers United said on social media platform X. CBC | World News
Read More »‘Stand your butt up,’ U.S. senator shouts at union leader during heated committee showdown
A congressional hearing devolved into an angry confrontation between a senator and a witness on Tuesday after Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma challenged Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to “stand your butt up” and settle longstanding differences right there in the room. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. inflation rate eases to 3.2%, lower than anticipated
The U.S. inflation rate increased at a 3.2 per cent annual pace last month, lower than September’s level of 3.7 per cent and lower than economists were expecting. CBC | World News
Read More »Tim Scott abruptly quits race to be Republican U.S. presidential nominee
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Tim Scott abruptly announced late Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 race, a development that surprised his donors and stunned his campaign staff just two months before the start of the Iowa caucuses. CBC | World News
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