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There was something suspicious about the young, hippie-looking man who rolled up to François Paulette’s home, out of the blue, in a Datsun pickup truck. It was Yellowknife in the 1970s, an era of transformative change, so this wasn’t unusual. But the stranger, who introduced himself as “Bob,” last name …
Read More »Armed man shot, killed after entering perimeter at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Secret Service says
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The U.S. Secret Service said on Sunday its agents shot and killed a man in his …
Read More »Girls are banned from Afghan schools. Secret networks are teaching them anyway
LISTEN | How Hazrat Wahriz is helping to educate girls in Afghanistan: The Current24:26Learning in secret: An Afghan teacher’s quiet resistance Mohaddesa Hassani was writing her tenth grade exams in Kabul a few years ago, when a teacher suddenly burst into the exam hall. “He was terrified. He was like, …
Read More »National Guard shooting and the CIA’s secret Afghan army
Front Burner Who are the Zero Units, the secretive CIA-backed Afghan fighter group the alleged Washington National Guard shooter was a part of? CBC News · Posted: Dec 03, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 6 hours ago Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of …
Read More »Secret Service asked to get river level raised for JD Vance’s birthday kayak trip
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance’s security detail had an Ohio river’s water level raised last week to accommodate a kayaking trip he and his family took to celebrate his 41st birthday on Aug. 2. The U.S. Secret Service said it requested the increased waterflow for the Little Miami River, first reported …
Read More »1 year after Trump assassination attempt, changes at U.S. Secret Service but questions remain
In many ways, the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign stop was a perfect storm of failings coming together that allowed 20-year-old Michael Thomas Crooks to climb on top of a nearby building and take eight shots at the once and future U.S. president. One attendee was killed, two …
Read More »Ex-FBI director James Comey meets with Secret Service over contentious social post
Former FBI director James Comey met with the U.S. Secret Service on Friday, after he was called in to discuss a social media post that U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters claimed was a threat against the president, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. Noem, in a post on X, …
Read More »Michael B. Jordan’s imperfect masterpiece Sinners has a secret in its songs
Despite its current stunning critical reception, Sinners is not perfect. The Ryan Coogler-directed, Michael B. Jordan-acted, action-musical-vampire-romance flick is perhaps a bit over-ambitious in trying to tackle its final genre: social satire and critique. But even for its small faults, it is also something else: in short, an incredible, best-of-the-year achievement. …
Read More »Canada ponders ‘top secret’ data cloud as allies push ahead with intelligence-sharing plans
Australia is joining the United States and the United Kingdom in developing top-secret cloud networks to exchange highly classified defence, national security and intelligence data with each other — a concept Canada has just begun to think about. Experts say that, unless the gap is closed quickly, Canada’s lack of such digital infrastructure …
Read More »Inside the secret mission to bring Afghanistan’s last female politicians to Canada
They left their country for the last time in the dark of the early morning. Women and children crammed into a van. Heads covered, their faces masked so they didn’t attract attention at Taliban checkpoints. Former female politicians in Afghanistan, the women in the vehicle face an extraordinary threat from …
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