2020-01-23
MONTREAL — Montreal police have asked for the public’s help to find a 27-year-old who has been missing since Jan. 19. The man, Anthoni Sauve, told his loved ones he wanted to end his own life before leaving hisHochelaga-Maisonneuve home, the police force wrote on Wednesday in a press release. He is 6 foot 1 […]
2020-01-22
2020-01-21
WASHINGTON — Scholars have roundly rejected a central argument of President Trump’s lawyers that abuse of power is not by itself an impeachable offense. But it turns out that another important legal figure has contradicted that idea: Mr. Trump’s attorney general and close ally, William P. Barr. In summer 2018, when he was still in […]
2020-01-20
Meng Wanzhou’s case has been closely watched since she was arrested in Vancouver in late 2018 at the behest of the US government, which has charged her and Huawei with bank fraud and evasion of economic sanctions against Iran. Both she and the company have denied the charges, and Meng has accused US and Canadian […]
2020-01-19
Prince Harry said on Sunday it brought him great sadness that he was leaving his royal duties after agreeing with Queen Elizabeth that he and his wife, Meghan, would step down from official roles to seek an independent future. Buckingham Palace and the Queen announced on Saturday that Harry and Meghan would not longer use […]
2020-01-18
WASHINGTON: Ken Starr, who was at the center of Bill Clinton’s impeachment in the 1990s, and America’s biggest celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz were announced Friday to be joining President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment defence. The administration has yet to unveil the full team but confirmed that White House counsel Pat Cipollone will be lead lawyer, […]
2020-01-17
The pound will react more to U.K. economic indicators than the twists and turns of Brexit in the first half of 2020, and will likely remain supported, according to currency strategists. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met in London on Wednesday to begin discussions over a […]
2020-01-15
Manchester United remain the top-ranked English club in terms of revenue generated but their 23-year dominance of Deloitte’s Football Money League could come under threat from Manchester City or Liverpool in next year’s table. United’s earnings of £627.1m for 2018-19 puts them third overall in the table, behind Spanish giants Barcelona (£741.1m) and Real Madrid […]
2020-01-15
Zendure’s Passport 30W global adapter doesn’t revolutionize the tedious process of powering your tech while traveling abroad. But one feature makes it so much better than any other one that I’ve used before: USB-C. Like its predecessor, there’s a smattering of USB-A ports along one of its sides, but this newer version that launched in […]
2020-01-14
Take a step back for a moment and marvel at Trevor Lawrence’s college football career so far, before you point out that he didn’t have a great game in Clemson’s national title loss to LSU on Monday. The quarterback has one championship under his belt, one that came by taking down Alabama. He made another […]
2020-01-13
The most common time to be born is 8 a.m. on the dot. The least common is 3:09 a.m. Caterpillars liquefy in their cocoons before turning into butterflies. A jockey named Frank Hayes once won a horse race, despite having suffered a fatal heart attack halfway through. His body maintained the proper position as his […]
2020-01-12
Australia once fought a war against emus, failed to take out very many emus, and then declared they had lost the war. Against emus. Benjamin Franklin once almost started a war between England and France using anonymous letters to a newspaper, purely because he was bored at the time. The character of Dracula is based […]
2020-01-12
These photos are unreal. If you are on this website, you probably like to travel. And if you like to travel, you have probably been to the airport a time or two. So, you know that being at the airport is pretty much a miserable experience for everyone. Ah, yes. From the overly strict rules […]
2020-01-11
It’s 90 degrees Fahrenheit out. Sweat is pouring down my forehead. I look down at my cyclocomputer: 6 miles to go. I stop my furious pedaling, pull over to the side of the path, take a calming breath, and look around as I open a bottle of water. The landscape is full of rolling sand […]
2020-01-09
Pokémon Home, o serviço de armazenamento por Cloud de Pokémon, vai estar disponível em fevereiro de 2020. Desenhado para suceder a Pokémon Bank e para ser compatível com Pokémon Go, Let’s Go Pikachu e Eevee, assim como Sword e Shield, vai ajudar todos os treinadores a gerir as suas coleções de monstros. Uma vez que […]
2020-01-09
Nanu? Nintendo kündigt eine Pokémon Direct an! Morgen, am 09.10. um 15:30 Uhr deutscher Zeit, veröffentlicht das japanische Unternehmen eine 25-minütige Präsentation rund um die Welt der beliebten Taschenmonster. Spätestens seit den The Game Awards warten Fans sehnsüchtig auf brandneue Ankündigungen zu kommenden Videospielen für die Nintendo Switch. Die Direct mit alleinigem Fokus auf die […]
2020-01-08
A tactical gamble from the Iranian regime and cooler heads in the White House appear to have averted full-scale conflict in the Middle East. For now, anyway. But if America’s NATO allies want to preserve the fragile peace in the region, they may have to do the unthinkable: Listen to President Donald Trump. The U.S. […]
2020-01-08
David Carnoy/CNET If you’re looking for top-shelf noise-canceling headphones and can’t decide between the Bose QuietComfort 35 II and Sony WH-1000XM3, this deal might sway you in favor of the latter. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Altatac via Rakuten has the Sony WH-1000XM3 noise-canceling headphones for $239.99 with promo code ALT15 — close […]
2020-01-07
Francis Mascarenhas / ReutersDemonstrators attend a protest against attacks on the students of New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), outside the Gateway of India monument in Mumbai, India, January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas MUMBAI — The city has witnessed a massive gathering at the Gateway of India since the attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University students […]
2020-01-06
MONTREAL — Extra health care costs can add up quickly for cancer survivors, compounding stress during an already difficult time. Just ask Deborah Bridgman, who has battled breast cancer for 25 years and has been off work since 2007. On long-term leave from her job, Bridgman is still collecting some of her salary, but says […]
2020-01-05
Adam Singolda, who runs Taboola and will take charge of the combined company, characterized the deal in a statement as a way to “create a more robust competitor to Facebook and Google” while “strengthening journalism.” Outbrain describes itself as providing “high-quality, reliable content from premium publishers and marketers.” Both companies have advertising guidelines, some of […]
2020-01-05
NAIROBI, Kenya — Al Shabab, the Somali terrorist group, on Sunday attacked a military base in Kenya that is used by both American and Kenyan forces, the militants said. The group said in a statement that it had carried out a dawn raid on Camp Simba, across the Somali border in southeastern Kenya. “There was […]
2020-01-02
Samsung sold 6.7 million 5G smartphones in 2019 and now accounts for more than half the global market, it announced Thursday. The South Korean tech giant exceeded its own expectations, having set a sales target for the year of around 4 million. Samsung (SSNLF) has first mover advantage when it comes to smartphones that run […]
2020-01-02
A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain reported. The study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, is the latest to show that artificial intelligence (AI has […]
2020-01-01
HUNTINGTON (US: Seven people were injured after being shot at a bar in West Virginia early New Year’s Day, police said. The shooting happened early Wednesday at the Kulture Hookah Bar in Huntington, interim Huntington Police Chief Ray Cornwell said in a news release. The statement said several people were found shot inside and outside […]