As part of the 2024 federal budget that was unveiled Tuesday, Ottawa has recommitted to spending $50 million to help municipalities limit the number of short-term rentals.
The US government will announce US$7 billion in grants for residential solar projects to power more than 900,000 low-income households.
During remarks before the House passed a Ukraine aid bill on Saturday, Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia passionately advocated for the U.S. to green-light assistance for the Eastern European nation.After noting that some people say that the U.S. needs to address its border first, Connolly said, "The Ukrainian-Russian border is our border. It's the border between depraved autocracy and freedom-loving people seeking our democratic way of life." He said, "We must meet this test today. We...
A second US soldier has been caught smuggling illegal immigrants in two weeks in Texas. Cartels are luring service members with the promise of easy money.
In a tense hearing, the justices weighed whether sleeping outdoors could be criminally punished.
Is America experiencing a crisis of confidence? That is the assessment of some world leaders from allied and partner nations in recent months. Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen criticized the U.S. at the start of the year, “Recent global events in the Taiwan Strait, in the Middle East, in Ukraine are all results of American hesitance to actually lead.”As he addressed Congress earlier this month, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chided his audience for what he called “an...
Following a presumed Israeli retaliatory strike on Iran, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins renewed international calls for de-escalation. Israel has not commented on the attack, which saw projectiles reach deep into Iran. Also on the programme: the US Congress moves closer to approving $60 billion of aid for Ukraine; in India voting begins in the world’s biggest election. (Picture: Antony Blinken at the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Capri, Italy, April 19, 2024.Credit:...
In ten years’ time, high house prices and low supply could be a thing of the past. Kristian Niemietz offers a despatch from that brave new world… The year is 2035 and according to provisional figures released today by the Office for National Statistics it is the tenth year in a row during which house []
Sweden has long had a strong symbolic value in US politics, representing a utopia that has chosen a golden middle way between capitalism and socialism. However, the tone has not always been positive and this image has been criticized. In a new report, Carl Marklund, researcher at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, investigates how the Swedish policy of neutrality and global events have affected the perception of Sweden in the US.
Two babies with the names of country legend Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter, were born in the same hospital completely by coincidence.Johnny Cash Davis was born on April 10 at the Huntsville Hospital in Alabama, followed by June Carter Clark, who came into the world just hours later. The babies even napped next to each other in the hospital's nursery as their parents recovered just rooms away from each other, with no idea the other existed.While neither of the parents named their newborns...
Canada Border Services Agency officers seized weapons and cash from two travellers Monday who were refused entry into Canada. The incident occurred at the Ambassador Bridge. The travellers were sent to secondary inspection and their vehicle was searched. A firearm, pepper spray and stun gun were found inside the vehicle. An additional US$11,815 in cash […]
The Republican National Committee continues to track the ongoing arrival of unauthorized visitors to the U.S. The committee tells Inside the Beltway that 189,372 illegal immigrants were encountered attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in March alone, marking the 37th straight month of President Biden’s tenure in office that such encounters have exceeded 150,000.