LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man two Northern California women near the Las Vegas Strip almost eight years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Omar Talley, 38, was sentenced Tuesday after a judge reprimanded him for his lack of remorse, according to the

Talley’s defense attorney argued that his client had apologized to the victims’ families, but Talley interrupted him to again state that he only expressed his “condolences” and claimed he was not involved in the killings, the

Conservative MP Michael Barrett says what he calls the “status quo” is not working when it comes to the rules that govern gifts to public office holders.

Barrett, his party’s ethics critic, says Opposition MPs plan to revisit those rules after weeks of raising concerns about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Christmas vacation to Jamaica.

The National Post reported that Trudeau and his family spent their holiday at a lavish estate, a report The Canadian Press has not independently verified.

Trudeau says he stayed with friends over the holiday

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus officials said Wednesday they led a Europol-organized sting operation that dismantled an international criminal ring facilitating illegal immigration and residency in European Union countries using dozens of sham marriages on .

Police said the sham marriages involved women from Portugal and Lithuania and men from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. According to police, the ring was implicated in a host of illegal activities associated with the more than 130 sham marriages, including circulating forged documents and assisting in illegal entry into the country.

Police

VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Mental Health and Addictions Minister Jennifer Whiteside says ending the province’s three-year drug decriminalization project won’t save “a single life,” as the experiment comes under political pressure and the overdose death toll continues to rise.

Whiteside said in a statement marking the one-year anniversary of the start of the project that its goal is to reduce shame and make addicted people more comfortable reaching out for help.

On Jan. 31 last year, Health Canada enacted a three-

Post-tropical storm Fiona has revealed traces of a time before dinosaurs, preserved in the rock and sandstone of Prince Edward Island and exposed in the tempest’s wake.

In September 2022, the power of the waves from Fiona’s hurricane-force winds caused coastal erosion, breaking apart cliffs, washing away dunes and revealing hidden fossils, says John Calder, a Halifax-based geologist and paleontologist.

Calder said Fiona, “took away and it also gave.”

“I don’t mean

CRAWFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A harness racing trainer in upstate New York was accused of striking a horse and fracturing its skull, requiring the animal to be euthanized, authorities said.

Frederick Bourgault, 26, was arraigned Tuesday on two charges in connection with the death of a race horse named Finish Line last July at the Pine Bush Training Facility in Crawford, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) north of New York City, according to Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler.

Bourgault is

OTTAWA — Canadian farmers may have to wait months to find out if they’ll owe thousands of dollars for carbon pricing this year, as a bill that would give them a new exemption remains mired in political conflict.

The legislation has been a four-year odyssey to date.

Farmers seeking relief have argued there are few, if any, alternatives for them other than using natural gas to heat their barns and propane to dry their grain.

Kyle Larkin, executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada, said there is

MONTREAL — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has concluded that a lack of planning contributed to the October 2021 capsizing of a rescue boat that killed a Montreal firefighter.

Pierre Lacroix, 58, drowned after the boat flipped while he and three colleagues attempted to pull a pleasure vessel carrying two people from the Lachine Rapids off the southern tip of Montreal Island.

A 53-page Transportation Safety Board report published Wednesday details the sequence of events that ended in Lacroix’s death, as well as the conditions

Israel has ignored the ruling by the last week by killing hundreds more civilians in a matter of days in Gaza, South Africa’s foreign minister said Wednesday, adding that her country has asked why an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been issued in a case South Africa filed at the separate International Criminal Court.

Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said South Africa would “look at proposing other measures to the global community” in a bid to stop Israel killing civilians during its war in Gaza against Hamas militants,