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Core of the Liberals have abandoned Canada’s prime minister after last week’s resignation of his deputy Dozens of MPs in Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party have now agreed that Canada’s embattled prime minister must abandon his post after last week’s catastrophic … Read More

A chorus of supporters and critics have emerged following the commutation of nearly every federal death row inmate by President Biden, whose decision came at a time when he’s trying to frame a so-far troubled legacy. The president on Monday … Read More

At least two people have been killed, according to the head of the state government. Police have taken a Saudi national into custody. A car was driven into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in the central German city … Read More

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it has decided not to pursue a $10 million reward it had offered for the capture of a Syrian rebel leader whose forces led the ouster of President Bashar Assad earlier … Read More

MOSCOW, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on ending the war and had no conditions for starting talks with … Read More

Greetings from Tyler, The jangle of X-mas is almost over. We can’t wait. Other than the Rose Parade in Pasadena, the beautiful weather, the Rose Bowl game. The whole thing seemed wholesome. All the people we listen to and read are … Read More

A Chinese spy who ran a “secret police station” in Manhattan to help Beijing target government dissidents faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to acting as an illegal foreign agent, federal prosecutors said. Chen Jinping, … Read More

LONDON/DUBAI, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have tightened their grip on the country’s oil industry and control up to half the exports that generate most of Tehran’s revenue and fund its proxies across the Middle East, according to … Read More

The stock market swooned Wednesday in response to a piece of news that might not seem all that dire on first read: The Federal Reserve could cut interest rates fewer times than experts had predicted, in 2025. The Dow Jones … Read More

NAJHA, Syria (AP) — Bones are visible here and there among the mounds of earth in a field south of Damascus, one of the mass graves around Syria believed to hold the bodies of tens of thousands of people killed … Read More

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared on stage Saturday in her one-time-only debut in Broadway’s & Juliet, a reimagined queer musical production of Romeo and Juliet. Jackson strutted her stuff, dancing, singing, and acting in the production on December 14 at the Stephen … Read More

A gun-toting teenage student at a Christian school in Madison Wis., shot dead another teen student and a teacher Monday morning, police said. Six more people were injured — including two students who were critically hurt with “life-threatening” wounds, authorities … Read More

LA PAZ, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Housewife Yola Chura worried about high food prices while shopping at a market in Bolivia’s highland city of El Alto, where she and many others are struggling with rising prices, stagnant wages and a … Read More

Putin warned that Western help for Ukraine is reaching a “red line” for Russia. Russia has to prepare for war with NATO as well as complete its war against Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov told the Defense Ministry on … Read More

The Syrian Islamist leader whose group led the offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad met Sunday with UN envoy Geir Pedersen, who was visiting Damascus, said a statement on the rebels’ Telegram channel. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, … Read More