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wow...something to watch. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press on Wednesday sued the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. The legal action follows repeated requests filed under...

and Tory wants a yearly transit fare increase. TORONTO - To make a long budget story short, pretty much everything is going up this year. Councillors wrapped up the 2015 budget process late Wednesday with a final 42-2 vote (Councillors Rob Ford and Giorgio Mammoliti were the only two votes...

because warming or something. The Italian weather Website MeteoWeb reports that Capracotta, Italy saw 100.8 inches of snow in just 18 hours on Thursday, March 5 — a total that, if verified, would set a new world record for snowfall in a 24-hour period. However, the reports from Capracotta...

TV Reporter Mugged On Camera By Armed Men Armed men have been caught on camera mugging a journalist as he was about to give a live TV report in South Africa...

Trudeau can't see past the veil. OTTAWA - He's been criticized by prominent Jewish groups, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair but on Wednesday Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau stood by his comments comparing a requirement for Muslim women to remove their face veils during...

In a brilliant and well-researched article in the Italian daily, Il Foglio, of 16 April 2011, Paolo Rodari recalled the figure of Hermine Speier. Born in 1898, the Jewish-German archaeologist came to Rome in 1928, and Pope Pius xi brought her to the Vatican in 1934, “to put the photographic...

Whoops! Study shows huge basic errors found in CMIP5 climate models | Watts Up With That?

Amidst the media frenzy over Justin Trudeau’s deliberate remarks that likened the Conservative’s immigration policies to Canada’s anti-Semitic policies of the 1930s, scant attention was paid to the rest of his ill-conceived address. On abortion, the Liberal leader has been unapologetic...

The man who posted himself from London to Australia in a BOX: Incredible true story of penniless javelin thrower who went to amazing lengths... just to get home for his daughter's birthday Reg Spiers posted himself from London to Perth in a wooden crate in 1964 He survived the 63-hour...

soon Top male models Derek Zoolander and Hansel walked the runway at the Valentino Women’s Collection Fashion Show at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday in Paris, France. Derek wore a custom Night Butterflies brocade suit with hand-embroidered overcoat and black Creeper shoes. Hansel...

Swiss voters Sunday overwhelmingly rejected an initiative that would have scrapped the Alpine country’s value-added-tax system and replaced it with a carbon tax. Roughly 92% of voters opposed the initiative while 8% supported the measure. The initiative would have encouraged Swiss...

your moral and intellectual superiors. On the 50th anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, The New York Times chose a front page picture of President Barack Obama, his family, and civil rights leaders who were there at the time. Missing from the photo...

'toast' Former rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight is scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom for a hearing about evidence in his murder case. Monday's hearing will be Knight's first court appearance since the Death Row Records co-founder told a judge that he had fired his...

Loblaw Cos Ltd, Canada's largest grocer, said it would invest more than $1.2 billion in its Canadian business in 2015. The investment includes construction projects for dozens of new and existing stores, e-commerce expansion, and continued investment in supply chain and IT infrastructure...

High-profile Calgary imam Abdi Hersy is wanted in the United States on outstanding criminal charges connected to two alleged sexual assaults. Imam spoke with ISIS fighters from Canada prior to departure The 46-year-old Somali national, who runs the Abu Bakr Mussallah place of...

because change (that he) can believe in. The mask is really coming off now. Let’s go back to 2008 when candidate Obama was trying to convince people that he wasn’t anti-American and anti-Israel. The problem was that he was surrounded by people who were both. So a few had to go under the...

Not really, I have a weak stomach. But I will reveal some things you may not know about Barack Obama’s boss. I guess the best place to start would be in Chicago. In 1992, Jarrett joined a real estate investment firm called Habitat Company, founded by Daniel Levin. Levin and his wife, Fay...

Coquitlam RCMP sent out this statement: "The Coquitlam RCMP is pleased to confirm that the 39 year-old woman reported missing March 3rd, has been located and is safe and sound. Thanks the media and the public for your assistance." Angelina Louie was last seen on February 27 and reported...

: 62.8%: Labor Force Participation Near 37-Year-Low for 11 Months Lorrie GoldsteinVerified account ‏@sunlorrie The labor force participation rate hovered between 62.9 percent and 62.7 percent in the eleven months from April 2014 through February, and has been 62.9 percent or lower in...

THE degree of ignorance about the distribution of tax across households is remarkable, especially given that the truth is so easily and freely accessible. For politicians perhaps it is wilful; the facts suit neither side. The...