The suspected attacker in a shooting that plunged a press gala attended by U.S. President Donald Trump into chaos has been identified by news media as a 31-year-old mechanical engineer from California. Read More

Efforts to resume peace talks over the Iran war stalled after U.S. President Donald Trump cancelled a planned trip by his top envoys and the Islamic Republic said it wont negotiate so long as its being threatened. Read More

The man accused of storming the White House Correspondents Dinner spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal, purchasing a shotgun from a Torrance, California, firearms dealer eight months before the attack and a semi-automatic pistol two years earlier, according to a law enforcement intelligence profile reviewed by Bloomberg. Read More

In early April after a month of disruption around one of the worlds most important energy chokepoints U.S. President Donald Trump wrote that with a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE. Read More

President Donald Trump jumped on Saturday nights shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner to add a security rationale to his case for building a massive White House ballroom that he has wanted for years. Read More

Manitoba plans to prohibit young people from accessing social media and artificial intelligence chatbots, said Wab Kinew. Read More

More than three years after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk says hes nearing his long-stated goal of turning it into an everything app with a new financial services tool that he pledged to launch for the public this month. Read More

To say the special relationship is going through a rough patch ahead of King Charles IIIs visit would be an exercise in British understatement. Read More

World leaders expressed shock after a shooter charged a glitzy media gala in Washington on Saturday night attended by U.S. President Donald Trump and relief that there were no casualties. Read More

Investigators on Sunday said the gunman who tried to storm a gala dinner attended by U.S. President Donald Trump planned to target top government officials, as scrutiny grew over the event's security. Read More

Canadians now have just days before the April 30 deadline to file their taxes. Read More

Two Australian academics working in celebrity studiespublished an article this monththat refers to J.K. Rowlings fame in the past tense andarguesthat Rowling has morphed into the evilfictionalsupervillain of her own series. Read More

We sometimes forget that the bad economic policy choices of U.S. politicians often pale in comparison to those of their counterparts in other countries. The result is that, despite the governments best efforts, Americans are growing more prosperous at a faster rate than their peers elsewhere. The divergence is happening so rapidly, the U.K.s Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) recently pointed out, that Britons (among others) lose track of how quickly theyre falling behind Americans wealth and living standards. A return to free-market principles could help to once again even the score. Read More

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President Donald Trump was reported uninjured and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after an unspecified threat. There did not immediately appear to be any injuries, and one law-enforcement official said a shooter opened fire. Read More

York Regional Police are investigating what they are calling a hate-motivated incident in Vaughan, Ontario. Read More

President Donald Trump cancelled a planned trip to Pakistan by his top envoys for negotiations over the Iran conflict, raising questions about the durability of the current ceasefire. Read More

U.S. envoys were expected in the Pakistani capital on Saturday to kickstart a new round of peace negotiations with Iran, although Iranian state media said Tehran's representatives had no immediate plans to hold face-to-face talks. Read More

The Strait of Hormuz oil shock has yet to crash demand as the rich world borrows from its stocks and pays up to secure supply. Traders are now sounding the alarm that a harsh adjustment is coming. Read More

The Iran war is now in an artificial stasis, in which practically all of the vast international coalition of people who are repelled and horrified by U.S. President Donald Trump, in the United States and elsewhere, have reflexively bought into the Iranian claim that since that ghastly regime has ostensibly survived, Iran is winning the war. Read More

OTTAWA Lots of ink has been spilled this past year about the quandary of Prime Minister Mark Carneys sprawling past business dealings, significant investmentsand his many potential conflicts of interest, and a parliamentary committee unveiled some possible solutions this week. Read More

A giant octopus may have ruled the ancient seas as a top marine predator in the age of the dinosaurs, according to new research. Read More

In Jonathan Swifts satirical 18th century masterpiece, "Gullivers Travels," his sea-faring protagonist visits various fictional lands, whose inhabitants represent facets of human nature that range from the merely irksome to the grimly repulsive. In the final chapter, we meet the noble race of Houyhnhnms clean, attractive, kind, intelligent horses who are capable of conversing with Gulliver. Read More

An Ontario judge whittled 13 months off a 14-year sentence for a man who shot two people due to the Muslim shooter's youth, racial discrimination he experienced growing up in Toronto, and harsh pretrial jail conditions. Read More

In aspeechin May 1955, VincentMassey, the first Canadian-borngovernorgeneral (1952-1959),saidtrue toleration was a forbearance towards something that you do not like, or even that you disapprove of,in the interests of a greater common good. He praised the parliamentary system as an example where speech was often frank andunpalatable, buttolerated. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has baffled Conservatives. This can be seen in the party's failure to update a strategy that was targeted towards Justin Trudeau's obnoxiously progressive tenure in office. Whether they like it or not, Carney is not Trudeau. All this approach has accomplished has been to permit the current prime minister to remain high in the polls by simply being a different person than Trudeau, who had become so broadly unpopular that anyone displaying a modicum of competence would have succeeded with voters. Read More

Two daughters of a Russian oligarch once considered part of Russian President Vladimir Putins inner circle have lost their court appeal to be removed from Canadas sanctions list, a punishment in response to Russias war against Ukraine. Read More

The European Union and United States signed an agreement Friday to coordinate on the supply of critical minerals needed for key industries including defence, as China's dominance becomes a growing concern. Read More