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Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks to members of the media outside a New York bodega.

Trump allies Meadows, Giuliani among 18 indicted in Arizona election interference case

News/World | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:04:52 EDT

An Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump 's chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others for their efforts to use so-called fake electors to try to overturn Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. read more

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'I'm scared': As hope fades for a hostage deal, a former captive fears for her husband still held in Gaza

News/World | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:04:50 EDT

Former hostage Aviva Siegel is imploring the government of Israel and others to get the remaining captives home from Gaza, including her husband, Keith. read more

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Ukraine's ambassador slams Canada for Airbus sanctions waiver on critical Russian mineral

News/Politics | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:57:10 EDT

Ukraine's ambassador to Canada has called out the Trudeau government over a decision to grant Airbus Defence and Space a waiver that will allow the European aerospace giant to continue to use Russian titanium in the manufacture of its aircraft engines. It comes after the company vowed to find a new supplier in 2022. read more

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Baby girl, delivered after Palestinian mother killed in Israeli airstrike, improving in hospital, doctors say

News/World | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:45:23 EDT

A baby girl delivered from a Palestinian woman who was killed alongside her husband and daughter in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah is stabilizing in hospital after her critical first days, according to her family and doctors. read more

A Ukrainian military recruitment poster is seen inside a Kyiv metro station.

U.S. secretly sent long-range missiles to Ukraine for its fight with Russia

News/World | Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:04:48 EST

Tennessee passed a bill to arm teachers. This mom says it won't keep her son safe

Radio/As It Happens | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:31:15 EDT

Sarah Shoop Neumann doesn't like the idea of sending her six-year-old son to school, knowing that his teacher might have a gun. read more

A close-up of some of the spears stolen by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago.

Spears taken 254 years ago finally returned to Indigenous people in Australia

Radio/As It Happens | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:02:55 EDT

Two and a half centuries after James Cook stole them from their ancestors, the Gweagal clan of the Dharawal people in Australia are finally getting four of their spears back. read more

A hand picking up an avocado from a crate of them.

Mexican farmers take on avocado growers in fight for water during drought

News/World | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:26:57 EDT

In recent days, subsistence farmers and activists from the Michoacán town of Villa Madero organized teams to go into the mountains and rip out illegal water pumps and breach unlicensed irrigation holding ponds. read more

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Will a wildly popular app become a casualty of the new cold war between China and the U.S.?

News/World | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:05:07 EDT

One of the world’s most popular social platforms — wildly popular with young people — risks becoming a high-profile casualty of the cold-war sequel developing between China and the United States. Now a new bill offers the app's Chinese-based parent company two choices. read more

Horses — without riders — bolt through London streets

| Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:42:18 EDT

At least four people were injured in London, U.K., on Wednesday when military horses bolted during routine exercises, dashing through the city before being captured and returned to the barracks where they are kept. read more

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Photographer sues Megan Thee Stallion, claiming he was unfairly fired

News/Entertainment | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:17:05 EDT

A photographer who worked for Megan Thee Stallion said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was abused as her employee. read more

A dairy cow calls out in Chino, California April 25, 2012.

Pasteurized milk includes remnants of H5N1 bird flu, U.S. officials say

News/Health | Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:48:06 EDT

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that it has found bird flu virus particles in some samples of pasteurized milk. read more

A wartime military enlistment advertisement is seen at a metro station in Kyiv, Ukraine.

U.S. prepares to rush $1B US in military aid to Ukraine, as Congress approves bills

News/World | Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:15:17 EDT

A sweeping foreign aid package easily passed the U.S. Congress late on Tuesday after months of delay, clearing the way for fresh Ukraine funding amid advances from Russia's invasion force and Kyiv's shortages of military supplies. read more

Abdullatif Abu Alia kneels over a pillow soaked with dried blood from where his cousin, 25 year old Jehad, bled to death after being shot in the head during an attack on his home by Israeli settler.

Why rights groups say so many Palestinians in the West Bank are being attacked with impunity

News/World | Tue, 23 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EDT

When word came over the weekend that Israel's closest ally, the United States, reportedly plans to hold members of an Israeli military battalion accountable for violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, rights groups saw it as progress. read more

WATCH | Strangers pull man from burning vehicle on Minnesota highway

| Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:13:00 EDT

A group of strangers worked together to rescue a man stuck inside a burning vehicle, after he crashed on the side of a highway in Saint Paul, Minn. read more

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National Enquirer publisher testifies he used tabloid to suppress unfavourable Trump stories

News/World | Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:08:41 EDT

The first witness in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, testified on Tuesday that he used his supermarket tabloid to suppress stories that might have hurt Trump's 2016 presidential bid. read more

WATCH | Chinese swimmers tested positive for banned drug before Tokyo Olympics

| Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:32:00 EDT

Twenty three swimmers from China who tested positive for the same banned drug were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics and some went on to win medals. The scandal has raised questions about the effectiveness of the World Anti Doping Agency shortly before the Paris Olympics. read more

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Eerie, orange skies engulf Athens as dust clouds blow in from Africa

News/World | Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:26:17 EDT

Skies over southern Greece turned an orange hue on Tuesday as dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks. read more

U.S. government agrees to $138.7M US settlement over FBI's botching of Larry Nassar allegations

Sports/Olympics/Summer Sports/Gymnastics | Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:10:23 EDT

The U.S. Justice Department announced a $138.7-million US settlement Tuesday with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Larry Nassar in 2015 and 2016. read more

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Elon Musk's X, Australia government clash over order to take down church stabbing video

News/World | Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:14:54 EDT

Elon Musk lashed out at Australia's prime minister on Tuesday after a court ordered his social media company X to take down footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney, and said the ruling meant any country could control "the entire internet." read more