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Beijing bans drone possession in the city after earlier moves to tighten rules
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (249+ words) Beijing has barred unauthorized drone flights, citing security reasons, and has designated the city’s administrative area as restricted airspace. The latest revised rules come after a fatal accident in late June when a small aircraft crashed into a Beijing skyscraper,…...
Alberta’s Smith says Crown corporation for natural gas unlikely after report leaked
17+ hour, 29+ min ago (217+ words) Alberta Premier Danielle Smith provides an update on teacher bargaining in Calgary, on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says it’s unlikely her government will launch a new Crown corporation to build out natural…...
49ers rout Rams 27-7 in NFL’s first Australia game behind Brock Purdy’s 3 TD passes
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (538+ words) The Los Angeles Rams only boomeranged in 28 hours before kickoff, and they flew back out with their Super Bowl aspirations in disarray after getting thrashed in a historic season opener. Mike Evans, Demarcus Robinson and Deebo Samuel caught touchdown passes…...
What to know about the Tiananmen vigil organizers who are set to be sentenced in Hong Kong
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (734+ words) The three former leaders of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China are set to be sentenced Friday over their convictions for inciting subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law. Lee and Chow pleaded…...
California governor signs laws aimed at protecting kids from risks of social media, AI chatbots
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (602+ words) The laws will penalize large social media companies up to $1 million per child if they are found negligent of harming children through their platforms, ban tech businesses from offering addictive feeds to anyone under 16, require operators of AI chatbots to…...
Iran-backed Houthi rebels take strategic port city in Yemen, raising threat to Red Sea shipping
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (809+ words) The takeover gives Iran another potential point of leverage in its war with the U.S., analysts said, if the Houthis use their presence in Mokha to ramp up threats or attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. Mokha is about 80 kilometers…...
Little Mercury may be shrinking faster than scientists expected
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (384+ words) This composite image provided by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington on Oct. 22, 2013, shows Mercury as it appeared to the Messenger spacecraft following a flyby of the planet. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory…...
Glitz, glam and geopolitical anxiety as TIFF gets underway
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (790+ words) Workers organize and set up last minute details ahead of the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette TORONTO - The global film industry is coming to Canada’s doorstep for the Toronto International Film…...
The Latest on the escalating trade war between Canada and the United States
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (418+ words) Prime Minister Mark Carney, centre, and Canada’s premiers hold a closing press conference at the First Ministers Meetings in Charlottetown on Thursday, July 23, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese OTTAWA - Canadian politicians are pushing back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive…...
California officials allow plans for the country’s biggest kelp farm to move forward
3+ day, 19+ min ago (606+ words) California has long been farm country, and its oceans soon could be, too. State coastal officials voted Wednesday to allow a plan to build the United States’ largest kelp farm 6 miles (10 kilometers) off the Southern California coast to move forward…...