The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam — Police in northern Vietnam have seized nearly 3 tons of ivory smuggled from South Africa in the latest action taken against the illegal trade. Thanh Hoa provincial police said the ivory was found in boxes on a truck stopped by police early Saturday morning. […]
News
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s eldest son changed his account over the weekend of a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, saying Sunday that the woman told him she had information about Democrat Hillary Clinton. A statement from Donald Trump Jr. one […]
By Jill Colvin @Byline 2:The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appears to be backing away from the idea of working with Russia to create a “cyber security unit” to guard against election hacking. Trump tweeted Sunday morning about discussing such a unit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yet […]
By Rahim Faiez The Associated Press KABUL — Six female students from war-torn Afghanistan who had hoped to participate in an international robotics competition in the U.S. this month will have to watch via video link after their visa applications were denied not once, but twice. The girls wanted to […]
By The Culinary Institute Of America The Associated Press You need a vacation. All of you. Even if you just got home from a 20-day Caribbean cruise, you probably still need a vacation. But as the graphs and charts and news reports have been reminding us, Americans aren’t great at […]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. has shared a new doctored video of his father attacking CNN. Trump Jr. tweeted a video of a doctored clip of the 1986 military thriller “Top Gun” Saturday. In it, President Donald Trump’s face is superimposed over Tom Cruise’s character as he […]
The Associated PressKelly P. Kissel Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the company to accusations of hypocrisy. The Oklahoma City-based business agreed to pay a $3 million fine […]
The Canadian Press INNISFIL, Ont.–Police say four people are facing charges after an incident in which death threats were allegedly made at gunpoint and an officer was bitten by the mother of one of the accused. South Simcoe police allege two teens were harassing a young woman and boxed her […]
The Canadian PressRyan McKenna TORONTO–With the all-star break just around the corner, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons knows his team needs to win games if they’re going to stay in the hunt for a playoff spot. That’s why he turned to closer Roberto Osuna for a third straight day yesterday […]
Staff Losing has become an unusual trend for Centra Pipelines. Jeremy Nussbaumer fired home a pair of goals as Pharmasave pulled off a significant 4-3 upset over league-leading Centra in Borderland Soccer League men’s division action at Struchan Gilson Memorial Soccer Pitch last night. Nussbaumer moved into second in league […]
Nicholas Donaldson Crossroads School students participating in the Project Sunset program received canoe training from instructor James Woods yesterday afternoon at Seven Oaks. The youth learned basic paddle strokes and how to safely enter a canoe before getting out on the water and trying it themselves. Safety was a main […]
Kiera Kowalski Sebastian Pavier played with a set of inflatable dice at the Lillie Avenue Park as part of “Pop Up Play,” a program put on by the Town of Fort Frances Recreation Department, the Northwestern Health Unit and Kidsport that encourages games and activities to revive play in neighbourhoods. […]
