Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued President Biden on Thursday, asking federal courts to make the federal government follow its own COVID rules when it comes to illegal immigrants jumping the border.
Mr. Paxton said Homeland Security has released tens of thousands of illegal immigrants into the country despite a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pandemic emergency order calling for the migrants to be expelled.
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OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says an American Indigenous man has a constitutionally protected right to hunt in British Columbia given his people’s historic ties to the region.
The decision today comes in the case of Richard Lee Desautel, a U.S. citizen who was charged with hunting without a licence after shooting an elk near Castlegar, B.C.
A pair of Texas children was hit with a cease-and-desist order by the local government after selling eggs to neighbors in the San Antonio area.
The two girls, 10-year-old Indiana and 8-year-old Phoenix, started collecting extra eggs from the chickens on their property and sold them to those in the community following the devastating Lone Star State freeze in February that roiled the region’s food supply.
A mural in Houston commemorating George Floyd was vandalized with a racial epithet early Thursday morning.
Houston Police chief Troy Finner told reporters that “some knucklehead” defaced the mural and that he is unsure of the vandal’s exact motivation.
The chief of staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knew there was an allegation made against Gen. Jonathan Vance in 2018 and that it had been referred to bureaucrats to probe, says an ex-senior staffer.
Elder Marques, a former senior advisor to Trudeau in the Prime Minister’s Office, testified before the House of Commons defence committee on Friday that he had been asked by either Katie Telford, Trudeau’s chief of staff, or her assistant to contact Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan‘s chief of staff about the matter.
US magazine Consumer Reports said on Thursday its engineers were able to trick a Tesla into driving in the car’s Autopilot mode — with no one at the wheel.
The publication’s engineers were able to operate the vehicle with the car’s inbuilt system failing to realize the driver’s seat was empty.
The experiment comes just days after a Tesla crashed in Texas, killing the two men in the car. Authorities say neither of the victims were in the driver’s seat when the car hit a tree just north of Houston.
MINNEAPOLIS — Black-owned businesses at the intersection where George Floyd was killed by police last year — now known as George Floyd Square — say they are in dire straits.
Black merchants near the once-thriving corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue said police have abandoned the blocked-off intersection, creating a dangerous autonomous zone that has seen crime spike and business evaporate.
Caitlyn Jenner is running for Governor of California.
The 71-year-old has filed paperwork to launch her campaign and formally announced her run on social media, revealing her new slogan – Caitlyn For California.
Jenner is a registered Republican. She voted for Trump in 2016 but not in 2020, in protest against his position on transgender issues. In an announcement on Instagram, she did not indicate whether or not she’ll run as a Republican or Independent.
India’s healthcare system is buckling as a record surge in Covid-19 cases puts pressure on hospital beds and drains oxygen supplies.
Families are left pleading for their relatives who are desperately ill, with some patients left untreated for hours.
Crematoriums are organising mass funeral pyres.
On Friday India reported 332,730 new cases of coronavirus, setting a world record for a second day running. Deaths were numbered at 2,263 in 24 hours.
LONDON (AP) — Western countries risk losing control of technologies that are key to internet security and economic prosperity to nations like China and Russia if they don’t act to deal with the threat, one of the U.K.’s top spy chiefs warned Friday.
“Significant technology leadership is moving east” and causing a conflict of interests and values, Jeremy Fleming, director of government electronic surveillance agency GCHQ, said in a speech.
Singling out China as a particular threat, he said the country’s “size and technological weight means that it has the potential to control the global operating system.”
A female police worker in France has been killed by a knifeman who shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ before he was shot dead by her colleagues.
The 49-year-old mother-of-two was slashed in the throat by the Tunisian on Friday afternoon as she worked in the main police station in the Paris suburb of Rambouillet.
The administrative agent, who had worked for the police since 1993, had recently returned from her lunch break and had ‘popped out of the station to change her parking disc on her car’ when she was pounced on by the attacker in the lobby.
The 26-second video captured by a garage camera across the street from the scene of the shooting shows Bryant walking down a driveway toward other people as a police car pulls up and the officer exits the vehicle. Bryant eventually charges at another woman and screams, “I’m going to stab the f**k out of you, b**ch,” before being shot multiple times.
New angle of the attempted stabbing released pic.twitter.com/xaaWiZNwx0
— Peace Promoter Poso (@JackPosobiec) April 22, 2021
Ontario is reporting 4,505 cases of #COVID19 and over 56,200 tests completed. Locally, there are 1,257 new cases in Toronto, 1,232 in Peel, 412 in York Region, 247 in Ottawa and 224 in Durham.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) April 23, 2021
DOUBLE-DOUBLE MUTANT: Indian researchers identify new strain of mutated B.1.617
Just two weeks after Indian researchers identified the new ‘double-mutant’ B.1.617 COVID-19 strain, a consortium of scientists in that country have uncovered a new mutation that shows an even stronger resistance to antibodies.
Dubbed B.1.618, the new variant was found in samples taken in West Bengal, the easternmost state in India that shares a border with Bangladesh and home to Kolkata, the nation’s seventh-most populous city.
‘More people are catching on’: Travellers using U.S.-Canada land border to avoid quarantine hotels
Greg Peacock walked across the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, Ont., and back into Canada with his three puppies in hand, pausing to take some selfies, but he didn’t cross here for the view.
He chose this particular point of entry from the United States to avoid the mandatory three-day stay at a quarantine hotel that applies to air travellers entering Canada.
“I don’t want to spend three days or whatever it is locked up at a hotel when I’m back in Toronto to do work,” he said.
Maj. Kellie Brennan says former chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance told her he was “untouchable” and that he “owned” the military police. She also said “he fathered two children with me.”
Global News reached out to Vance in February about the allegations. When asked if he was the father of one specific child by name, Vance said: “I am not.” When asked whether he was the father of another specific child by name, he said, “I don’t even know who these people are.”
Global News did not previously report on the allegations for legal reasons. Witnesses testifying before parliamentary committees are protected from being sued for defamation.
