FORT SMITH, N.W.T. — Northerners jump on small charter planes like people in the South would into taxis or buses, says the co-owner of Aunty’s Korner Store in Fort Smith, N.W.T., where residents have been gathering to talk about a deadly crash earlier this week.

“It’s a way of life to get from community to community, because in the region I’m from there are communities that don’t have roads so you have to

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Newly released investigative reports into last year’s deadly ambush of police officers in Fargo, North Dakota, show the gunman loading his weapons into a garage and visiting a gun range hours before the attack.

The trove of investigation documents released Thursday includes a timeline of images from Mohamed Barakat’s apartment and surveillance cameras that map his movements before the July 14 shooting as officers investigated a routine traffic crash. Barakat shot and killed one Fargo police officer and wounded two other

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would decriminalize all the in West Virginia, the state with the nation’s highest overdose rate, is headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Jim Justice.

Justice hasn’t said publicly whether he supports the bill, which has received bipartisan support. The proposal follows a law signed by Justice in 2022 that decriminalized fentanyl testing strips.

“As time has gone, unfortunately, we’ve got fentanyl, now we’ve got

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. world court on Friday came down hard on in the Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to “take all measures” to prevent a genocide of the Palestinians. But it stopped short of demanding an immediate cease-fire, as the South African sponsors of the case had hoped.

All sides tried to claim victory with , seizing on different elements that buttressed their positions.

Israel celebrated the court’s rejection of the cease-fire request and said it had endorsed . Yet

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Opponents of Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic rallied outside the Constitutional Court building on Friday to press their demand that last month’s election be annulled and held again over reported widespread irregularities.

The Serbia Against Violence group has accused Vucic’s populist government of orchestrating a fraud in the Dec. 17 parliamentary and local voting, particularly in the capital Belgrade. Vucic has denied the accusation.

The state election commission has declared Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party the election winner and rejected the

WASHINGTON (AP) — should declare that Donald Trump is ineligible to be president again because he spearheaded in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss, lawyers leading the fight to keep him off the ballot told the justices on Friday.

In a filing filled with vivid descriptions of , the lawyers urged the justices not to flinch from doing their constitutional duty and to uphold a first-of-its-kind Colorado court decision to kick the 2024 Republican presidential front-runner off the state’

Teachers in Ontario’s French-language public school system have voted 93 per cent in favour of a strike mandate.

Their union says it organized the vote in response to the government’s proposals that they say will increase teachers’ workloads.

Anne Vinet-Roy, president of the Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens, says the results of the vote show teachers are pushing back against the government and standing up for the survival of the French-language education system.

There are no plans at the

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s legislature became the latest in the U.S. to pass a bill Friday prohibiting diversity training, hiring and inclusion programs at universities and in state government.

The bill that cleared the state House and Senate by wide margins now heads to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican who has said he is likely to sign such a bill into law.

Headed into the final year of his first term as governor, Cox has shifted right on “diversity, equity and inclusion