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Miami Considers Jailing Homeless People For Eating, Sleeping In Public Being poor could soon be a crime in the city of Miami. As though life weren’t already difficult enough for people who can’t afford regular housing, they could soon find themselves thrown in jail and their possessions...

Panama's president says his country has seized a North Korean-flagged ship carrying "undeclared military cargo". President Ricardo Martinelli said the ship, stopped in the Panama Canal as it sailed from Cuba, contained suspected "sophisticated missile equipment". He posted a...

All Canadian Sea King helicopters have been grounded pending an investigation into an incident late Monday night at a Canadian Forces Base near Halifax, the Department of National Defence has announced. A Sea King helicopter struck the tarmac with its main rotors just before midnight...

Good lord. Don Cherry is a well-loved CBC personality and a Canadian treasure. But even a Canadian saint can go too far. Recently, Cherry gave an interview to a newspaper in France. The interviewer asked Cherry about immigration. Did he support a policy, espoused by some extremists in...

Fans of a carbon tax, aka “a tax on everything” suffered of a setback this week when Australia’s Labor government revoked a carbon tax introduced just two years by … itself. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, though advertised as a staunch defender of the environment, cancelled the tax despite the...

Honest Ed’s, the Toronto retail landmark known for its dazzling outdoor signage and annual turkey giveaways, is up for sale. Longtime general manager Russell Lazar said he’s known the discount store was being quietly shopped around for a few weeks now. “I have no doubt we’re going to see...

Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age. In this case, the mass e-book removals were motivated by...

Prime Minister Harper has shuffled his cabinet, desperately putting the best possible face on the ministry as it prepares for the 2015 election. It might be an uphill struggle, so savagely has the government been battered in recent months. New faces, new possibilities, new Tory hopes. But...

NEW YORK – A federal judge began listening to testimony Monday that will help him decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center buildings destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks can pursue billions of dollars in damages from aviation companies linked to the hijacked planes. U.S. District...

Hugh Alexander Thorburn, 49, faces one count each of making and possessing child pornography and two counts each of juvenile prostitution and internet luring. TORONTO - A university educator faces child-porn charges after police alleged that a 17-year-old girl was paid to pose for...

Degenerates both, with criminal records...oh yeah, and they're running for NYC Mayor. Spitzer, Weiner maintain poll position - NYPOST.com

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Meet Stephen Harper's new cabinet. He has named eight new ministers, four of whom are women. Monday's shuffle is intended to put a fresh face on government that has seen its polling numbers slip in the wake of the Senate scandal. The appointees represent a generational shift at a time when...

Swedish professor nominates Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama administration responds by saying; "the nomination seems a bit premature" and suggests Snowden has actually set world peace back decades How ironic. Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Swedish...

'We are surely a kinder and gentler nation because of you' In a rare and warm appearance, former President George H.W. Bush returned to the White House on Monday. The 89-year-old was there to hand out the 5,000th award from his "Points of Light" Foundation, but the celebration also...

CAPE CANAVERAL — Imagine a U.S. National Park like Yellowstone or the Great Smoky Mountains on the moon, one that would protect artifacts left behind by the Apollo astronauts. Sound crazy? It’s not as far-fetched as it seems.A bill introduced in Congress recently would “endow the artifacts...

Oh it's probably nothing. AFP - Scientists have discovered a radioactive substance in sediment under a Swiss lake used for drinking water and situated near a nuclear plant, the Le Matin Dimanche weekly reported Sunday. While scientists cited in the report stressed there was no danger to...

The very first Air Force One plane that once shuttled President Eisenhower on cross-country voyages is now abandoned and forgotten in the Arizona desert quietly decomposing under the merciless sun. This may be some kind of metaphor The aircraft that once spirited President Dwight D...

Roberto Calderoli, vice president of Italy's Senate, said on Saturday at a political rally in the northern town of Treviglio: "I love animals - bears and wolves, as everyone knows - but when I see the pictures of Kyenge I cannot but think of, even if I'm not saying she is one, the features...