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Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Watergate 50 years later: How a former FBI agent, DNC intern, and hotelier recall the break-in
On this date 50 years ago, five men would be arrested for the break-in at the Watergate Office Building. The discovery that they were working for the Committee to Re-Elect The President, aka CRE...

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Can a new law stop China's forced labour?
Human rights organizations say more than a million Uyghurs have been detained, with estimates of hundreds of thousands forced into producing cotton, apparel and electronics for some of the world’s b...

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Can a new law stop China's forced labour?
Human rights organizations say more than a million Uyghurs have been detained, with estimates of hundreds of thousands forced into producing cotton, apparel and electronics for some of the world’s b...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:17:15 EDT
Trump, advisers knew plan to overturn 2020 election was illegal and likely to incite riots
Donald Trump's closest advisers viewed his last-ditch efforts to pressure his then vice-president, Mike Pence, to reject the tally of state electors and overturn the 2020 election as "nuts," "crazy" ...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 03:30:18 EDT
Emmanuel Macron hints at Russian war crimes as western European leaders visit Kyiv
The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania arrived in Kyiv on Thursday to show a collective European support for Ukraine in both its resistance against Russia's invasion as well as its bid to j...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:02:38 EDT
Former Canadian chief justice McLachlin says she'll stay on Hong Kong court despite crackdown on human rights
Canada's former top judge says she intends to stay on Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal despite government threats to civil liberties in the region.

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:31:00 EDT
Ukraine wants peace, but not capitulation: former president
"We are for peace, but please, the territorial integrity of Ukraine - this is not a point for compromise," said former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko on the prospect of peace talks between Russi...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:12:38 EDT
U.S. central bank hikes interest rate by biggest amount since 1994
The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points to a range of up to 1.75 per cent, its most aggressive hike in almost 27 years as the U.S. central bank scrambles to rein ...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:15:39 EDT
Michigan baby formula factory blamed for shortage closed again due to major storm
Severe weather has forced Abbott Nutrition to pause production at a Michigan baby formula factory that had just restarted after being closed for several months.

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:31:08 EDT
Revlon files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in U.S.
Revlon, the 90-year-old multinational beauty company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, weighed down by a heavy debt load, disruptions to its supply chain network and surging costs.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:33:47 EDT
FDA advisers vote to authorize 2 COVID-19 vaccines for kids 5 and under in U.S.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's outside vaccine advisers have voted unanimously in favour of authorizing both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines for children between six months and...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
'No regrets': A Canadian volunteer wounded in Ukraine is coming home
After two near-misses in two wars, the odds say JT should be dead. The Ottawa native came close to death a second time while volunteering with a Ukrainian military unit when he drove over an anti-tank...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:18:38 EDT
Attempted Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr. fully released after four decades
John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and several others in 1981 and was acquitted by reason of insanity, no longer faces oversight from legal and mental health professi...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:51:10 EDT
Russia claims strike on NATO-supplied weapons depot in Ukraine as West pledges more arms
The Russian military said it used long-range missiles Wednesday to destroy a depot in the western Lviv region of Ukraine where ammunition for NATO-supplied weapons was stored, and the governor of a ke...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:09:58 EDT
Federal charges for accused in Buffalo mass shooting raise death penalty possibility
The white man accused of killing 10 Black people in a mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket was charged Wednesday with federal hate crimes and could face the death penalty if convicted. ...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:32:14 EDT
Putin critic Alexei Navalny confirms move to another maximum security prison
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny confirmed Wednesday that he was transferred to another prison and is in quarantine.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:22:17 EDT
Human remains found, suspect confesses to killing 2 men in Amazon, police say
A federal police investigator in Brazil said Wednesday night a suspect had confessed to fatally shooting an Indigenous expert and a journalist in a remote part of the Amazon, and had taken officers to...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:03:49 EDT
Thailand moves closer to legalizing same-sex marriage
Lawmakers in Thailand pass four bills that will provide same-sex partners with almost the same legal rights as heterosexual couples. Activist say there's a long road ahead.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:36:29 EDT
After 27 years, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser hits retirement
As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate — and a few still claim to adore. The application joins BlackBerry phones, dial-...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:22:01 EDT
Historic flooding forces Yellowstone National Park to get visitors out, close gates
More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation's oldest national park.



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