U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin remained in the hospital on Sunday as more details emerged about key decision-makers, even President Joe Biden, being kept in the dark for days that the Pentagon chief had been in the intensive care unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. CBC | World News
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U.S. diplomacy visit hopes to calm tensions as Israel-Hamas war enters 4th month
The Israeli military signalled that it has wrapped up major combat in northern Gaza, saying it has completed dismantling Hamas’s military infrastructure there as the war against the militant group entered its fourth month Sunday. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court to decide if Trump can be left off 2024 presidential ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former U.S. president Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign. CBC | World News
Read More »Joe Biden says 2024 U.S. election ‘all about’ whether America’s democracy will survive
U.S. President Joe Biden warned Friday that Donald Trump’s efforts to retake the White House in 2024 pose a grave threat to the country, the day before the third anniversary of the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol by then-president Trump’s supporters aiming to keep him in power. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. captures world junior gold for 6th time with win over host Sweden
The United States got the revenge it desperately craved. Isaac Howard scored twice in the second period as the Americans beat host Sweden 6-2 to capture gold at the world junior hockey championship Friday in Gothenburg. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Harvard president’s resignation highlights U.S. conservatives’ bid to remake higher education
The downfall of Harvard’s president has elevated the threat of unearthing plagiarism, a cardinal sin in academia, as a possible new weapon in conservative attacks on higher education. CBC | World News
Read More »Explosions kill more than 100 at event honouring Iranian general slain by U.S.
Two explosions minutes apart in Iran targeted a commemoration for a prominent general slain in a U.S. drone strike in 2020, killing at least 103 people and wounding at least 141 others as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. helicopters kill several Houthi rebels in latest Red Sea shipping attack
The U.S. military said Sunday that its forces opened fire on Houthi rebels after they attacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea, killing several of them in an escalation of the maritime conflict linked to the war in Gaza. CBC | World News
Read More »Police in Serbian capital fire tear gas at election protesters as EU, U.S. call for reforms
Police in Serbia fired tear gas to prevent hundreds of opposition supporters from entering the capital’s city council building Sunday in protest of what election observers said were widespread vote irregularities during a general election last weekend. CBC | World News
Read More »Frontrunner Donald Trump? A 2024 U.S. election year outlook
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