Latest breaking news and updates from around the world covering politics, business, technology, and global events.
ATLANTA — Days before the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia, President Donald Trump has endorsed U.S. Rep. Mike Collins over former football coach Derek Dooley, putting his stamp of approval on another loyalist who some conservatives believe could be a risky bet in November. The Republican candidates are competing Tuesday for the chance to take…
British armed forces have intercepted a sanctioned Russian oil tanker in the English Channel, leading for the first time an operation to disrupt the oil revenue that helps fund Russia’s war in Ukraine. British Prime Sir Minister Keir Starmer said the tanker is being investigated by officials, who suspect it is part of a Russian…
The New York Knicks ended their 53-year wait for a third NBA championship on Friday night, sparking wild celebrations across the city. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The Knicks clinched the best-of-seven series 4-1 against the San Antonio Spurs to lift the trophy for the…
Oscar Piastri has work to do in Spain, starting tonight’s Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix from seventh on the grid. Mercedes driver George Russell is on pole position, desperate for a good result after failing to score points in either of the previous two grands prix. Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton joins Russell on the front row, while drivers’…
Celebrity economist Thomas Piketty won fame with a claim that, in market economies, capital accumulates in the hands of the already wealthy, leading to increased inequality. The message found a receptive audience among people eager to believe economic success isn’t earned. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney cited Piketty in his own 2021 book-length argument that economic…
In Aldous Huxley’s seminal Brave New World, published in 1932, the author imagined what terrible things advancing technologies might do to mankind. In Huxley’s created world, set in 2540, human beings are grown in labs — but not due to any cultural aversion to sex. The culture is hypersexual: the totalitarian government uses a slogan,…
Among Canadians who are travelling this year, nearly two‑thirds (61 per cent) of Gen Z respondents said the U.S. is on their itinerary, compared to 48 per cent of Millennials (born 1981-1996), 28 per cent of Gen X (1965-1980), and 14 per cent of Boomers.
Koven’s statement of claim is demanding damages of $750,000 for wrongful dismissal, $1.5 million for general damages from both the board and Pon, and $1 million for “moral damages for bad faith in the manner of dismissal, demotion, mental distress, aggravated, exemplary and/or punitive damages.”
After facing intimidation, discrimination, vandalism, harassment, shootings and threats in their schools, synagogues and communities since the October 7, 2023, terror attack of Israel by Hamas, many Jewish Canadians have become deeply depressed and fearful. Many, as I wrote on these pages not long ago, have left or are planning to leave Canada in hopes…
Trump, though very unlike his predecessors, is an extension of the boomer domination of the American presidency. The boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, had their first president in Bill Clinton, born August 1946. He was succeeded by the one-month-older George W. Bush, born July 1946. Trump, slightly older still, is the third two-term president…