Biden offers fresh assurances he would shut down border ‘right now’ if Congress sends him a deal
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Bidding to salvage a that also would unlock , President offered fresh assurances Saturday night that he would be willing to close the U.S.-Mexico border if lawmakers would only send him a bill to sign.
Biden — also eager to disarm at the border — said at a that he would shut down the border ’“right now” if Congress passed the proposed deal. The framework hasn’t been formally agreed to by Senate Democrats and Republicans and would face an uncertain
1 in custody following shooting in Oshawa
Oregon weekly newspaper to relaunch print edition after theft forced it to lay off its entire staff
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon weekly newspaper that had to lay off its entire staff after its will relaunch its print edition next month, its editor said, a move made possible in large part by fundraising campaigns and community contributions.
The Eugene Weekly will return to newsstands on Feb. 8 with roughly 25,000 copies, about six weeks after the embezzlement forced the decades-old publication to halt its print edition, editor Camilla Mortensen said Saturday.
“It has been both terrifying and
Trump praises Texas governor as border state clashes with Biden administration over immigration
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former President lavished praise Saturday on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for not allowing the Biden administration entry to remove razor wire in a popular corridor for migrants illegally entering the U.S. .
In a speech focused overwhelmingly on border security, Trump said Texas should be given full support in its measures to deter migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. The state is restricting the U.S. Border Patrol after the Supreme Court for these federal agents to cut or remove the sharp
Bullfight advocates working with young people to attract new followers in Mexico
ACULCO, Mexico (AP) — The corral gate swings open and an energetic calf charges in, only to be wrestled stuggling to the ground and immobilized by having its legs tied. The men go to work vaccinating the calf and marking its number with a burning iron on its back.
It happened in one of the sessions of a workshop that José Arturo Jiménez gave this past week at his ranch in Aculco, a town in the State of Mexico near Mexico City, attended by about 40 university students
1 charged with attempted murder following Brampton shooting
Investigators from Peel police’s Criminal Investigation Bureau have arrested and charged a man in connection with a shooting in Brampton last year.
On March 6, 2023, at approximately 2:52 p.m., a man was walking his dog along the Etobicoke Creek Trail in Brampton when he was approached from behind by an unknown man. The unknown man proceeded to fire over a dozen shots in the victim’s direction.
The victim was struck by gunfire and tried to flee, but was chased
A snowboarder spent 15 hours trapped in a ski gondola. She rubbed her hands and feet to keep warm
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A snowboarder spent 15 hours trapped overnight inside a ski lift gondola amid freezing temperatures at a Lake Tahoe resort, according to officials and media reports.
Monica Laso boarded the gondola around 5 p.m. Thursday at Heavenly Ski Resort to ride down the mountain because she was too tired to snowboard. But it stopped just minutes later while she was still in the sky, she told KCRA, which the news.
Laso yelled for help, but no one on the
After LA police raid home of Black Lives Matter attorney, a judge orders photographs destroyed
A judge has ordered the Los Angeles Police Department to get rid of photographs of legal documents that officers allegedly took during an unannounced raid on the home of an attorney representing a prominent Black Lives Matter activist.
The attorney, Dermot Givens, said roughly a dozen Los Angeles police officers descended on his townhouse on Tuesday, ordering him to stand outside as they executed a warrant.
When he went back inside, Givens said he saw an officer photographing documents left on his kitchen table related to a lawsuit filed against the department on behalf
‘Be vigilant’: Counselling encouraged for Fort Smith residents after fatal crash
FORT SMITH, N.W.T. — The deadly plane crash that rocked residents of a small town in the Northwest Territories has left no part of the community unscathed, including local schools.
Flags flew at half-mast Saturday at Joseph B. Tyrrell Elementary School in Fort Smith in memory of the six people killed when their charter plane crashed shortly after takeoff on Tuesday.
The aircraft had just taken off from Fort Smith and was en route to the Diavik Diamond Mine when it hit the ground and caught fire.
Revelers in festive dress fill downtown Tampa, Florida, for the annual Gasparilla Pirate Fest
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Revelers clad in pirate finery packed Tampa’s waterfront Saturday as a flotilla of boats arrived for the city’s annual Gasparilla Pirate Fest.
Led by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla, the invading pirates docked to make a final demand for the key to the city. Once ashore, the festivities celebrating their annual invasion included an afternoon parade through downtown and live music.
A fixture nearly every year since 1904, the Gasparilla Pirate Fest is named for the mythical pirate Jose