U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is “strong and unpredictable,” and those qualities can be a decisive factor in his policy approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. However, Zelenskyy said it won’t be possible to end the almost three years of war in one day, as …

Smoke fills the screen as Skye Riley marches powerfully through a room full of figures silhouetted in white.  The video was posted last month to the Skye Riley Nation TikTok, a page dedicated to someone who appears to be a massive pop star, with content similar to what you’d see on the TikToks …

A judge Friday set U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — a little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House — but indicated he wouldn’t be jailed. The development nevertheless leaves Trump on course to be the first president …

Day 613:39Why it’s time to bust ‘the good mother myth’ Nancy Reddy expected to excel at new motherhood. The graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had completed the coursework for her PhD in two years instead of the expected three, and she was accustomed to feeling like a person …

Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won re-election Friday to the U.S. House speakership on a first ballot, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts after a tense standoff and buoyed by a nod of support from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. The uneasy scene brought an ominous start to the first day of the new …

Lawyers for two men convicted of human smuggling charges by a Minnesota jury after a family from India froze to death in Manitoba while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in 2022 are asking for their clients to either be acquitted in the case or get a new trial. Harshkumar …

A soldier who died in an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck at the Trump hotel in Las Vegas left a note saying it was a stunt to serve as “wake-up call” for the country’s ills, investigators said Friday.  Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colo., apparently harboured …

WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or who know someone affected by it.  Three criminal cases were thrown out of Manitoba’s courts in 2024 due to excessive delays — and each one involved men accused of sex crimes in the northern part of the province. …

U.S. Olympic runner Fred Kerley has been arrested in South Florida following a confrontation with police, authorities said. Body camera footage released by Miami Beach police shows Kerley arguing with a group of officers late Thursday before a physical confrontation erupted. Kerley was wrestled to the ground, where an officer …

Parts of southern Ontario could receive snowfall between 20 to 40 centimetres or more by Sunday, Environment Canada warns.  Lake effect snow from Lake Huron and Georgian Bay is expected to become heavier throughout Saturday, the weather agency said in an alert Saturday morning.  The following areas are under a snow squall …