US & Canada

The rise in US coronavirus cases amid the spread of the Delta variant prompts renewed call for more Americans to get vaccinated. The top infectious disease expert in the United States has warned that the country will experience more “pain and suffering in the future” as coronavirus infections are surging, …

August 1 is now recognised across Canada as Emancipation Day, marking the end of slavery in the British Empire in 1834. After years of campaigning by Black legislators and community advocates, Canada on Sunday is officially marking the abolishment of slavery nearly 200 years ago in its first nationwide Emancipation …

A sheriff’s deputy in Kaufman County, Texas, has been placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced showing him on top of an 18-year-old Black woman, and then arresting her mother. In the video, the woman – Nekia Trigg – being held down is heard yelling, “I can’t breathe.” According …

Former US President Donald Trump says he tried to “uphold the integrity and honesty of elections” when he pointed to voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Trump released a statement on Saturday in response to the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s latest stance towards his role in the Capitol …

Fire crews struggled to stop the spread of Dixie Fire, the largest active wildfire in California, on Saturday. According to Press TV, the US Forest Service performed a prescribed burn using incendiary balls dropped from a helicopter in Meadow Valley, as a way to control the progress of the Dixie Fire, …

A US lawmaker has described the Biden administration’s plan to evacuate Afghans, who worked with US forces in Afghanistan, a “complete disaster”. The Biden administration decided to grant special visas to Afghan interpreters, drivers, guides, and other locals after US President Joe Biden vowed to withdraw American troops from the country. …

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of 18 Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters to the Israeli regime in a Foreign Military Sales deal worth about $3.4 billion amid reported demands from Tel Aviv for more American weaponry in case of a renewed US deal with Iran …

An Illinois tax agency has ruled that former President Donald Trump is due a $1 million refund on the 2011 tax bill for his downtown Chicago skyscraper, but local officials are trying to block the refund.

The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with record sales of firearms, has fueled a shortage of ammunition in the United States that’s impacting law enforcement agencies, people seeking personal protection, recreational shooters, and hunters — and could deny new gun owners the practice they need to handle their weapons safely. Manufacturers say …

Barajas, 19, was one of two people shot during a screening of “The Forever Purge” at the Regal Edwards Theatre in Corona, California.

The United States imposed sanctions on the Cuban police force and two of its leaders on Friday in response to the Havana government’s crackdown on protesters, and President Joe Biden promised Cuban-American leaders more actions were coming. The U.S. Treasury Department said the sanctions, which appeared to be largely symbolic, …

The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Friday announced the seizure of a 2,734-ton tanker it said was owned and operated by a Singaporean national and used to make shipments of petroleum products to North Korea in violation of international sanctions. A DoJ statement said the M/T Courageous was seized by …

Two powerful tornadoes have wrought a path of destruction though parts of eastern Pennsylvania, leaving at least five people injured as authorities in one hard-hit county declared a “mass casualty” event. The pair of twisters touched down in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County on Thursday, virtually destroying a car dealership and a …

Native American tribes from across the US brought a 25-foot totem pole to the nation’s capital and urged the Biden administration to take action to protect sacred sites, Native Organizers Alliance Director Judith LeBlanc said on Thursday. “The Red Road to DC totem journey has brought together over 17 tribal …

Two whistleblowers from the US Department of Health and Human Services have said agents there were instructed to conceal the actual scale of the coronavirus outbreak among unaccompanied immigrant children at a facility in Fort Bliss, Texas, at the beginning of this year. According to an appeal, submitted Wednesday to …

Another video footage has surfaced about US police violence showing two officers choking a man and aiming a gun at his head, while trying to arrest him in Colorado. According to reports, the officers from the Aurora Police Department (APD) were charged in connection with the incredibly brutal arrest of …

The warnings, issued for the US states of Alaska and Hawaii, the US Pacific territory of Guam, were later cancelled. The tsunami warnings issued across the Pacific Ocean after a shallow earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck the Alaska Peninsula have been lifted. The quake struck at 10:15 pm on Wednesday …

US activists have laid body bags in front of the Facebook’s offices in Washington DC in protest against coronavirus misinformation that has been spread on the US social media platform. The group calling itself “The Real Facebook Oversight Board” (RFOB), tweeted that, “We placed body bags in front of Facebook …

Senior Russian and American officials have restarted talks on nuclear arms control and other strategic issues in an attempt to normalize fraught bilateral relations between the world’s largest nuclear weapons powers with a focus on risk reduction. In a follow-up to last month’s meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and …

“The biggest threat would be any potential tsunami risk,” a USGS geophysicist said. Tsunami warnings were issued for parts of Alaska after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.2 struck off the peninsula’s coast early Thursday. The tremblor struck around 50 miles south of Perryville, a small town of …