Private property owners sue over Virginia’s hunting dog law
WILSONS, Va. (AP) — Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in rural Virginia a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they
Ontario NDP promises to lower auto insurance rates by 40 per cent if elected
BRAMPTON, Ont. — Ontario's New Democrats would lower auto insurance rates by 40 per cent if elected next month, leader Andrea Horwath said Wednesday. Horwath said she would ban rate increases for 18 months while a commission investigates and recommends...
Ontario Liberals promise $1B to clear surgery backlog from pandemic
TORONTO — The Ontario Liberals would put $1 billion over two years toward clearing an overwhelming surgical backlog – a pledge that's part of all three major parties' election platforms. Leader Steven Del Duca said Wednesday a Liberal government would ...
Catholic cardinal, others arrested on Hong Kong security law
HONG KONG (AP) — A 90-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal, a singer and at least two others have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger China’s national security, in an action widely condemned as
Wives of Mariupol defenders to pope: ‘You are our last hope’
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The wives of two Ukrainian soldiers defending the Mariupol steel mill met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and begged him to intervene to arrange for a third-party evacuation of the troops before Russian soldiers capture or
Britain pledges military help to Sweden, Finland if attacked
HELSINKI (AP) — Britain pledged to come to the aid of Sweden and Finland, including with military support, if the two Nordic nations came under attack under security deals Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed Wednesday with his Swedish counterpart in
Finnish PM says joining NATO will strengthen security
TOKYO (AP) — Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said the possibility of her country joining NATO was for the security of its citizens and called for the international community to unite in stepping up sanctions against Russia during talks Wednesday
Germany shifts focus of military missions in West Africa
BERLIN (AP) — The German government backed a change to two of the country's military deployments in West Africa, moving hundreds of soldiers from Mali to neighboring Niger and shifting its emphasis in Mali from a European to a United
For Supreme Court justices, secrecy is part of the job
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was hospitalized, his health failing, when he gave his son Hugo Jr. an order: Burn the papers. Worried that the publication of certain of his private notes could harm the court or
Wartime birth amid the air raid sirens in Ukraine hospital
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — It's easy to tell the delivery room from the rest of the main maternity hospital in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, even from the outside. Its exterior wall is piled high with sandbags.