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Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2024 | 1:24 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Megan Thee Stallion asked a court on Tuesday to issue a restraining order against Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from prison through surrogates as he serves a 10-year sentence for shooting her in the feet. The...

Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2024 | 11:47 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of the federal law that could ban TikTok in the United States if its Chinese parent company doesn't sell it. The justices...

Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2024 | 8:40 AM

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Vanuatu's capital was without water on Wednesday, a day after reservoirs were destroyed by a violent magnitude 7.3 earthquake that wrought havoc on the South Pacific island nation, with the number of people...

Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2024 | 12:09 AM

PALM BEACH, Fla (AP): President-elect Donald Trump on Monday suggested that he may reverse President Joe Biden’s recent decision to allow Ukrainian forces to use American long-range weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory. Trump called the...

Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2024 | 12:08 AM

ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Delegates attending the main opposition New National Party (NNP) convention on Sunday elected the first woman to lead the party. She is Emmalin Pierre, who served as the party’s public relations officer before her elevation,...

Published:Tuesday | December 17, 2024 | 8:09 PM

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An overcrowded boat capsized on a river in central Congo on Tuesday, killing at least 25 people, including children, and leaving dozens missing, officials and local residents said. The vessel was believed to have more...

Published:Tuesday | December 17, 2024 | 1:41 PM

PARIS (AP) — Pop star and fashion designer Pharrell Williams was named UNESCO's goodwill ambassador for artistic education and entrepreneurship on Tuesday in Paris, continuing his cultural dominance of the French capital as Louis Vuitton...

Published:Tuesday | December 17, 2024 | 8:43 AM

Police said a student who opened fire killing two people at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, has been  identified as a 15-year-old girl, who was also dead. The girl also wounded six others in the shooting at Abundant Life...

Published:Tuesday | December 17, 2024 | 12:07 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): The deputy executive director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots in the Middle East and Sudan to assess dire humanitarian situations and escalating demands for food from millions of...

Published:Tuesday | December 17, 2024 | 12:07 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday confirmed the death of the minister in the Ministry of Education, Lisa Morris Julian, saying she will be remembered “fondly as an unrelenting voice for her constituency and the...

Published:Tuesday | December 17, 2024 | 12:07 AM

TORONTO (AP): Canada’s most populous province may bar American-made alcohol, in addition to restricting electricity exports to Michigan, New York and Minnesota if US President-elect Donald Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on all Canadian products, a...

Published:Monday | December 16, 2024 | 6:00 PM

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Prosecutors in Bolivia on Monday sought the arrest of former President Evo Morales in connection to a sexual abuse investigation involving his alleged fathering of a child with a 15-year-old girl. The arrest warrant,...

Published:Monday | December 16, 2024 | 4:07 PM

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — A teenage student opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another teenage student in the final week before Christmas break. The shooter also died, police said....

Published:Monday | December 16, 2024 | 1:36 PM

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — Three people, including a child, are dead and seven others injured after a shooting Monday at a Christian school in Wisconsin, the police chief says. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes says the suspect shooter is...

Published:Monday | December 16, 2024 | 12:40 PM

PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump joined SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son to announce plans by the Japanese company to invest $100 billion in US projects over the next four years. Trump announced the planned...

Published:Monday | December 16, 2024 | 10:32 AM

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's most powerful and loyal minister, announced Monday she was resigning from the Cabinet as Trudeau struggles with declining popularity....

Published:Monday | December 16, 2024 | 12:09 AM

Drones for commercial and recreational use have grown rapidly in popularity, despite restrictions on who can operate them and where they can be flown. No-fly zones are enforced around airports, military installations, nuclear plants, certain...

Published:Monday | December 16, 2024 | 12:09 AM

SEOUL (AP): South Korea’s Opposition leader offered Sunday to work with the government to ease the political tumult as officials sought to reassure allies and markets, a day after the Opposition-controlled Parliament voted to impeach conservative...

Published:Monday | December 16, 2024 | 12:09 AM

DAMASCUS (AP): At Damascus’ international airport, the new head of security – one of the rebels who marched across Syria to the capital – arrived with his team. The few maintenance workers who showed up for work huddled around Maj Hamza al-Ahmed...

Published:Sunday | December 15, 2024 | 10:53 AM

OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) — A tornado near a mall in central California swept up cars, uprooted trees and sent several people to the hospital. In San Francisco, authorities issued the first-ever tornado warning. Elsewhere, inclement weather...

Published:Sunday | December 15, 2024 | 12:13 AM

NEW YORK (AP): The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge. Luigi Mangione will be represented by...

Published:Sunday | December 15, 2024 | 12:13 AM

SAO PAULO (AP): Brazil’s Federal Police on Saturday arrested a former member of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s Cabinet and his 2022 running mate in connection with investigations into an alleged coup plot, the Supreme Court said in a statement....

Published:Sunday | December 15, 2024 | 12:13 AM

SEOUL (AP): South Korea’s parliament on Saturday impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his stunning and short-lived martial law decree, a move that ended days of political paralysis but set up an intense debate over Yoon’s fate, as jubilant crowds...

Published:Sunday | December 15, 2024 | 12:12 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Santa Clauses came to town. Thousands of Kris Kringles and jolly Old St Nicks jammed streets, sidewalks and bars from Adelaide to Vancouver on Saturday for annual SantaCon charity pub crawls. In New York City, where temperatures...

Published:Sunday | December 15, 2024 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): United States President-elect Donald Trump has promised to end birthright citizenship as soon as he gets into office to make good on campaign promises aiming to restrict immigration and redefining what it means to be American. But...

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