The Pentagon will install rooftop solar panels as Biden pushes clean energy in federal buildings
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon, part of the Biden administration’s plan to and “reestablish the federal government as a sustainability leader.”
The Pentagon is one of 31 government sites that are receiving $104 million in Energy Department grants that are expected to double the amount of carbon-free electricity at federal facilities and create 27 megawatts of clean-energy capacity while leveraging more than $361 million in private investment, the Energy Department said
Toronto daycare exiting $10-a-day program, citing funding uncertainty
A Toronto daycare is pulling out of the national $10-a-day program, saying the funding model has saddled the centre with unsustainable levels of debt, leaving families scrambling to either find other care, absorb an $800 monthly increase to their budgets or leave the workforce.
Jacqueline Stein’s two-year-old son has been at Ola Daycare for a little over a year and, earlier this month, was given notice of the centre’s withdrawal from the program that currently cuts fees
Hundreds protest and clash with police in a Russian region after an activist is sentenced to prison
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Hundreds of protesters clashed with police in the Russian region of Bashkortostan on Wednesday in a rare display of public outrage after a court convicted a local activist and sentenced him to prison, media reports and rights groups said.
The unrest — one of the largest reported demonstrations since the war in Ukraine began in 2022 — erupted amid the trial this week of Fail Alsynov in the town of Baymak, about 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) southeast of Moscow
Deadline to qualify for forgivable portion of CEBA looms for Canadian businesses
TORONTO — Thursday will mark the deadline for Canadian businesses to repay pandemic loans and receive partial forgiveness, a move that business groupssay will spell closure for thousands of struggling companies.
“I believe the government will regret the decision to not grant more time as small businesses fail and default on their entire loan,” said Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, in a press release.
Almost 900,000 businesses and non-profits received a Canada Emergency Business Account loan during the COVID
2.7 million Zimbabweans need food aid as El Nino compounds a drought crisis, UN food program says
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday that it was working with Zimbabwe’s government and aid agencies to provide food to 2.7 million rural people in the country as the contributes to a drought crisis in southern Africa.
Food shortages putting nearly 20% of Zimbabwe’s population at risk of hunger have been caused by poor harvests in drought-ravaged areas where people rely on small-scale farming to eat. El Nino is expected to compound that by causing
Givenchy goes back to its storied roots in atelier men’s show in Paris
PARIS (AP) — In times of doubt and self-searching, fashion houses often go back to their roots — to their atelier. Givenchy, in the wake of the departure of designer Matthew M. Williams, did just that. This season, the designer-less house held on Wednesday a menswear show at its Avenue George V salons — an archetypical couture setting — to try to re-center and find its voice once more. Models walked slowly past guests, like in bygone decades, for a show whose
Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo hold a petition drive in hopes of ousting 4 ethnic Albanian mayors
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo held a signature drive Wednesday in hopes of securing enough to oust four ethnic Albanian mayors whose elections last year sent soaring.
Groups of people were seen going to sport halls or other areas to sign petitions in the municipalities of Northern Mitrovica and Leposavic. The drive is expected to start soon Zvecan and Zubin Potok, two other municipalities in the north where most of Kosovo’s ethnic Serb minority lives.
Supporters of new municipal elections need the signatures of at least 2
Ohio child hurt in mistaken police raid, mom says as authorities deny searching the wrong house
ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman says her 17-month-old son suffered chemical burns when police wrongfully raided the home where she was living, allegations that authorities have denied and are now under investigation.
Police body cam footage released Tuesday by officials in Elyria shows officers deploying exploding flash-bangs while raiding the home around 2 p.m. on Jan. 10. The warrant was served as part of an ongoing investigation involving stolen guns, city officials said.
The footage shows officers entering
Who is Jaish al-Adl, the Sunni group that Iran targeted in an airstrike on Pakistani soil?
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Iran’s airstrike in the Pakistani border province of Baluchistan has jeopardized relations between the two neighbors and potentially raised tensions in a region already roiled by .
The South Asian country to Iran on Wednesday in protest of the unprecedented attack, though both sides appeared wary of provoking the other. A military response from is unlikely because the country’s missile systems are primarily deployed along the eastern border to respond to potential threats from India.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani told his Iranian counterpart on a call
Another Republican debate is canceled after Haley says she’ll only participate if Trump does, too
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Another Republican presidential debate has been canceled after refusal to participate in any forum that doesn’t also include former President , meaning that for the first time in years there will not be an on-the-ground face-off ahead of New Hampshire’s primary next week.
CNN announced Wednesday that it was calling off its debate, which had been scheduled for Sunday at New England College.
That comes a day after ABC and WMUR-TV said they were also