As impeachment looms, Homeland Security secretary says his agency will not be distracted by politics
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary says he doesn’t take it personally that House Republicans are trying to in nearly 150 years, saying the attacks against him are politics: “They don’t know me.”
“Many of these individuals haven’t sat down and spoken with me about my approach to the work, my policy positions, what we’re trying to do, how we are scrupulously and quite aggressively enforcing the law,” he said.
In a wide-ranging interview
Feel cheated by a service you hired? There’s a court for that
In response to a sharp rise in home renovation scams, CityNews has been reporting on ways to prevent consumers from falling prey to unscrupulous contractors. But we’re also diving into the routes you can take if you feel the person you hired has not kept up their end of the bargain.
As we previously reported , many working relationship breakdowns with a contractor don’t always warrant a police investigation.
“Some of these cases are contractual disputes and not criminal,” Peel Regional Police Constable Nikhil Chakravarthy told us.
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Defense appeals ruling to keep Wisconsin teen’s homicide case in adult court
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — The defense is appealing a ruling that that kept in adult court the case of a 15-year-old Wisconsin boy after luring her into woods.
Defense attorney Michael Cohen has filed an appeal of the in the case of the boy identified only as C.P.-B., who is accused in the April 24, 2022, slaying of 10-year-old Iliana “Lily” Peters, the Eau Claire reported Friday.
LSU football coach Brian Kelly releases bald eagle, treated by the university, back into the wild
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — College coach Brian Kelly is used to managing the Louisiana State University Tigers, the school’s beloved football team, but on Friday he was face to face with a bald eagle.
Standing on a levee along the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge — about a mile from the famed LSU Tiger Stadium — Kelly released the once-injured eagle back into the wild, after it had been treated by the university’s veterinary medicine’s wildlife hospital for three months.
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Politics trumped legal advice in decision not to revoke citizenship of Nazi in 1960s
OTTAWA — Newly declassified pages from a 40-year-old report on Canada’s handling of Nazi war criminals suggest both the author and Canadian bureaucrats felt politics, and not legal arguments, were driving decisions around a man convicted of Nazi war crimes in the Soviet Union.
The 1967 decision not to extradite the man or revoke his citizenship was based heavily on advice from former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, who was justice minister at the time.
The then-minister of external affairs asked Trudeau for advice
Carl Weathers, who starred in ‘Rocky’ movies and ‘The Mandalorian,’ dies
Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore,” has died. He was 76.
Matt Luber, his manager, said Weathers died Thursday. His family issued a statement saying he died “peacefully in his sleep.”
“Carl Weathers will always be a legend,” Schwarzenegger wrote on Instagram. “
Georgia sues Biden administration to extend Medicaid program with work requirement
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia sued the Biden administration Friday to try to keep the state’s new health plan for low-income residents, which is the only Medicaid program in the country with a work requirement, running until 2028.
Georgia Pathways launched in July and is set to expire at the end of September 2025.
The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Brunswick, Georgia, says the Biden administration’s decision to revoke the work requirement and another aspect of
Tennessee plans only one year of extra federal summer food aid program for kids
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee only plans to participate for one year in a federal program that gives low-income families $40 per child per month to pay for food while school is out, the governor’s office said Friday.
Tennessee is among that have opted into the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer program, or Summer EBT, for this summer. Fifteen other states, all currently with Republican governors, won’t be participating.
Officials in President Joe Biden’s administration say the money is
Towering over the Grammys is a Los Angeles high-rise tagged with 27 stories of graffiti
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Graffiti has risen to high art in downtown Los Angeles: Taggers have covered at least 27 stories of an unfinished high-rise development.
The vandalism is the latest twist in the saga of the three-tower project across the street from where will be hosted Sunday, the Crypto.com Arena — which is near the Los Angeles Convention Center and the L.A. Live dining and events complex in the city’s expanding entertainment district.
The towers were going to house a hotel
Treatment plant fixed, Edmonton lifts ban on non-essential water use
EDMONTON — The mandatory ban on non-essential water use in Edmonton and surrounding communities has been lifted.
Water-operator Epcor says repairs have been completed at the affected treatment plant and the system has stabilized.
The ban had been in place since Monday, when an electrical outage at the plant compromised pumps delivering drinking water to the network.
Epcor says with the help of residents and large users like car washes and laundromats, more than 100 million litres of water were conserved.
That savings allowed residents to still get