US & Canada

US Democratic lawmakers have called on Justice Clarence Thomas to resign from his post as a Supreme Court justice. A new report by ProPublica news organization revealed on Thursday that Thomas had received far more undeclared gifts and vacations from rich donors than previously reported. At least 38 destination vacations, …

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has reportedly rejected multiple requests from the United States to send arms and military equipment to Ukraine. The New York-based Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin received a “noncommittal” reply in March when he asked Sisi to send …

The United States has imposed sanctions on four Russian businessmen as means of trying to pile up pressure on Moscow over the latter’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine. The US Treasury Department enacted the measures on Friday, identifying the targets as people linked to the Russian financial and investment conglomerate …

US Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed David Weiss as special counsel in the ongoing probe into fraud allegations against American president’s son Hunter Biden, amid growing scrutiny of his financial and business dealings. Weiss will be responsible for the “ongoing investigation” of President Joe Biden’s son “as well as …

The death toll from the devastating Hawaii wildfire has reached 80 with nearly 1,000 still missing amid growing criticism against lack of government response in the US island state prior to and in the aftermath of the tragedy in the Maui County. “The number of fatalities is at 80,” the …

Former US president Donald Trump blasted the multiple prosecutions threatening his re-election bid on Tuesday, complaining that court appearances would keep him off the campaign trail for much of 2024. Speaking in New Hampshire days after being indicted for a third time in four months, Trump railed against “deranged” officials …

A top US diplomat has demanded the undoing of Niger’s coup and the return to power of its West-sponsored president in a secret visit to the West African nation for talks with coup leaders, suggesting a military intervention otherwise. Speaking to reporters before her departure from Niger’s capital Niamey, Veteran …

Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has warned that the United States will cease to exist if ex-president Donald Trump — who is way ahead of his rival in polls — is reelected to the top executive office in the 2024 presidential election. The US will cease to exist if …

Syria’s deputy permanent representative to the UN says US forces have supplied Takfiri terrorists in the strategic al-Tanf area in southern Syria with chemical weapons and trained them how to use them to incriminate Damascus. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on “The situation in West Asia” in New …

Australia has rebuked the United States for the latter’s refusal to cease its prosecution of Julian Assange, saying it would persist in its efforts to have Washington drop its legal proceedings against the WikiLeaks founder. “This has gone on for too long. Enough is enough,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese …

The US establishment and the CIA are using Wikipedia as one of its tools to wage “information warfare,” the site’s co-Founder, Larry Sanger, has said. Intelligence agencies have been manipulating the online encyclopedia for more than a decade, Sanger told Pulitzer Prize winner American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald on Wednesday. …

Police found no shooter, and no one injured after reports of a possible active shooter in the US Capitol complex. US Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger told reporters on Wednesday that nothing concerning had been found after police swept three Senate office buildings. Earlier, US Capitol Police urged people inside …

Public confidence in the US military has been constantly in decline over the past five years and it is now at its lowest level in two decades, a recent opinion poll says. The poll, which was conducted by Gallup and its results were reported on Monday, was carried out between June 1 and 22. …

Several Federal Government agencies in the United States, including the Department of Energy, have been targeted in a global campaign of cyberattacks exploiting a vulnerability in the widely used software MOVEit Transfer. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is providing support to the targeted agencies. Eric Goldstein, the CISA assistant …

The US Justice Department has confirmed systematic police brutality and racism in Minneapolis while reporting on its probe into the city’s police department three years after the killing of George Floyd as racial profiling and violence by US police remains rampant across the country. In a scathing criticism of Minneapolis …

A recently inked defense agreement has granted the US military an “unimpeded access” to Papua New Guinea (PNG) military bases, as part of Washington’s push to increase its military footprints in the Pacific to counter the influence of China. The full text of the 15-year agreement was tabled in Papua …

A portion of a vital highway on the East Coast of the US collapsed in Philadelphia after a tanker truck carrying gasoline caught fire underneath an overpass, officials said on Sunday. No deaths or injuries were reported, but officials said the situation remains fluid and that investigators were still searching …

Former U.S. President Donald Trump was due to appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday to face criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. It will be the second courtroom visit for Trump since April, …

The United States plans to rejoin the UNESCO organisation from this July onwards, UNESCO announced on Monday. The United States withdrew from the U.N. cultural agency in December 2018 under President Donald Trump over accusations of anti-Israel bias and mismanagement. “It is a strong act of confidence in UNESCO and …

The United States on Friday banned imports from China-based printer maker Ninestar Corp and a chemical company over alleged human rights abuses in China, according to a post for the Federal Register. Ninestar, whose website says it is the world’s fourth-largest laser printer manufacturer, and Xingjang Zhongtai Chemical Co Ltd, …