The U.S. military will extend a mission to support security along the U.S. border with Mexico through Sept. 30, the Pentagon said on Monday. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved the extension in response to a request from the Homeland Security Department, the Pentagon said in a statement. There are about 2,350 troops assigned to the border mission. The deployment […]

Cops Tasered the man before he was restrained and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder on the platform of Tulse Hill commuter station in South London. Horrified witnesses described "woman screaming" after a man was seen waving the blade on the platform during rush hour. One commuter took to social media to post a picture of a man being held […]

The £9,000 painting, which could be worth millions, was taken from St Ludgerus church in the small of Zele, Belgium, after being left in a room without any alarms. It was donated by a parishioner 16 years – but only recently did the church’s pastor realise that the work, depicting the Holy Family, could actually belong to the famous painter, […]

The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to temporarily suspend a lower court’s bombshell ruling in a sexual-assault case that the military justice system is unconstitutional. A five-judge panel rejected military prosecutors’ request for a stay on Monday after the prosecution tangled with defence lawyers over whether discipline within the Canadian Forces would suffer if September ruling were allowed to […]

Trump a Russian agent? Never, he says  Standing outside the snow-covered White House on Monday (Jan 14), Donald Trump made an astonishing declaration for a US president: No, he has never been an agent of Russia.  “I never worked for Russia,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn. “It’s a disgrace that you even ask that question. It’s all a […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Monday he wants to address Turkey’s security concerns in Syria but stressed the importance that Washington’s Kurdish allies not be mistreated, the White House said. The phone call came as the two NATO allies worked to iron out differences and discussed ongoing cooperation […]

The masterful tentacles of advertising and public relations have manipulated the American table for more than a century. Christina Ward, the author of “American Advertising Cookbooks,” describes the promotional cookbooks of the 1930s to ’70s to tell the story, but she covers a longer timeline, giving the history of cookbooks, of branded food products and even of government involvement both […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday shuffled his cabinet after a senior member quit and quickly had to deny he had demoted his long-serving justice minister, who seemed less than happy with her new job. Trudeau made five changes after Scott Brison announced last week he was quitting as president of the Treasury Board, which has […]

A 28-year-old Saudi man charged with sexually assaulting a Cape Breton woman has gone missing, with a leading immigration lawyer saying it may be a case of the Middle Eastern kingdom helping a citizen flee while awaiting trial. Nova Scotia’s prosecution service says Mohammed Zuraibi Alzoabi had $37,500 of his bail posted by the Saudi Arabian embassy last year in […]

A criminal complaint released Monday reveals disturbing new details in the kidnapping case of Jayme Closs, the Wisconsin girl who was missing for nearly three months after her parents were fatally shot in October. The suspect in both the kidnapping and the killing of Jayme’s parents, 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson, is charged with two counts of first-degree homicide, one count of kidnapping […]