Month: March 2025

Mark Carney once lead the central bank of Canada and then was tapped to do the same job in England. So he knows a lot about government and finance but he has never held elected office. This weekend he was elected to be head of Canada’s Liberal Party which means he’ll soon be prime minister. We learn more about the man who takes the job at a time of strained relations with the U.S. And the Palestinian city of Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, is so renowned for it’s soap that the process of making it has been listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. We go to one of the oldest soap factories there.

Fresh atrocities suggest a country spiralling out of control

The city’s top prosecutor cited the brothers’ “continual failure to show full insight and accept full responsibility” for the murders of their parents.

The LA District Attorney told a press conference on Monday that he opposes resentencing.

Secretary of State Rubio and a U.S. delegation will meet with Ukrainian leaders on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia to discuss ways to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said on Monday that Ontario’s 25-percent surcharge on electricity exports to his state — announced in response to President Trump’s tariffs on Canada — will …

A federal court petition demanding Mahmoud Khalil’s release provides details of the Columbia University activist’s arrest. Trump says more arrests are to come.

Three lost hikers, including two young children, were rescued from Big Basin Redwood State Park in the dark of night Sunday evening by a California Highway Patrol helicopter, the CHP reported. “They were really in a remote area,” CHP flight officer and paramedic Richard Jones said of the rescue in the Santa Cruz County park by CHP’s Golden Gate Division Air Operations, based in Napa County. One hiker had contacted the park and provided their GPS…