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May 1, 2025
Trump’s agenda faces courtroom setbacks as Justice Department lawyers struggle to win over judges
WASHINGTON (AP) — To understand the Justice Department's difficulties in struggling to represent President Donald Trump's positions in court...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
UK sees hottest start to May, prompting warnings of open-water swimming dangers after boy dies
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. saw its hottest start to May on record on Thursday, prompting authorities to warn of the dangers of open water swimmi...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
UK could hit 30 degrees Celsius at earliest recorded point in a year
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. is set for its hottest day of the year so far on Thursday, and temperatures could hit 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Senate Democrats plan to force a vote on resolution for transparency on deportations to El Salvador
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats plan to force a vote in the coming weeks on a resolution to require more transparency from President Dona...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Transgender women soccer players to be banned from English women’s teams
LONDON (AP) — Transgender women will be banned from playing on women's soccer teams in England following a U.K. Supreme Court ruling last mo...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Unpacking Carney’s first priority + Question’s swirl around Poilievre’s future
Here’s the latest on Mark Carney’s first priority, questions about Pierre Poilievre’s future and what experts say Carney should do about Can...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Parts of England vote in local elections, with Farage’s Reform UK seeking big gains
LONDON (AP) — Voters in many areas of England go to the polls Thursday in local elections that provide a test of feeling about Prime Ministe...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Toronto’s best veggie burgers go beyond Impossible meat — here’s how local chefs are reinventing the plant-based patty
Once a frozen fallback, the veggie burger is now a chef-driven dish in Toronto, featuring bold ingredients, inventive techniques and no fake...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Carney inherits an immigration system that’s losing public support. Here’s how experts say he can fix it
Amid backlogs and public discontent, critics decry a “loss of accountability and maybe even a loss of competence” in decision making in rece...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
‘The process is the punishment’: Assault charge against U of T encampment protester withdrawn
The Star reported days after the charge was first laid that a video provided by a protester showed a much different interaction than the rep...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Tanks in Toronto. A new Trump at the helm. Canada has fallen: Why this local artist put up plaques imagining a U.S. invasion
Dara Vandor has been creating and placing fictitious plaques that imagine what Toronto’s future may look like if the United States invaded.
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
NHL player to continue testimony at former world junior teammates’ sex assault trial
LONDON - The sex assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team is expected to hear more testimony today from Tay...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Advocate fears mental health stigma after Vancouver festival tragedy
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia advocate says people with mental illness and those who work with them are afraid of the consequences that cou...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
New tax targeting empty homes in Canmore stirs divisions in Alberta mountain town
The Town of Canmore will soon begin taxing homeowners who leave their residences empty for more than half the year as part of the Alberta co...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
For Mi’kmaq fishers working within Ottawa’s baby eel rules, it’s a ‘peaceful’ season
GOLD RIVER - Some Mi'kmaq harvesters say working within Ottawa's quotas for the contentious baby eel fishery is helping calm the tense atmos...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Victim impact statements today in trial of accused in fatal Quebec daycare bus crash
LAVAL - Families affected by a deadly bus crash at a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 are scheduled to read victim impact statements today in c...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Russian drone attack on Odesa kills 2 people and wounds 15
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa early Thursday killed two people and injured 15 others, Ukra...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Attack in Russian-occupied Ukrainian region leaves 7 dead, Moscow-appointed officials say
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead in the partially-occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson Thursday...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
At least 9 dead in drone strikes after US and Ukraine sign minerals deal
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odesa killed two people on Thursday, o...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
3 Pakistani security personnel killed in raid on a militant hideout
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces overnight raided a militant hideout in northwest Pakistan, sparking a shootout in which...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Kenyan opposition MP is killed in ‘targeted’ shooting
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and p...
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May 1, 2025
South Korea’s acting leader Han resigns amid reports he will run for president
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s acting leader, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, said Thursday he is resigning to take on “heavier respon...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
South Korea’s acting leader Han resigns amid reports he will run for presidential election
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s acting President Han Duck-soo said Thursday he was resigning amid reports he will run in next month’...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
India and Pakistan face their latest crisis. Here’s a look at their history of armed conflict
NEW DELHI (AP) — A deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir last week has plunged relations between India and Pakistan to new lows,...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
India will include caste details in its next census
NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramific...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
India will include caste details in its next population census
NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next population census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and politi...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Australian locals rescue great white shark stranded in shallow water
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tourist Nash Core admits he felt some fear when he and his 11-year-old son waded into the ocean off the Australi...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Several countries sending firefighting planes to Israel to help tackle major wildfire
JERUSALEM (AP) — Several countries were sending firefighting aircraft to Israel on Thursday as crews battled for a second day to extinguish...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Rubio calls India and Pakistan in effort to defuse crisis over Kashmir attack
NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called senior officials in India and Pakistan in an effort to defuse the crisis that fo...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Africans say a Black pope would be nice to have. But they are not too hopeful
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans thin...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
North Korea and Russia begin building their first road link
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea and Russia have begun building their first road link, the two countries announced, hailing the constru...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
New Zealand hit by destructive winds, heavy rain and snow and high waves
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Severe weather warnings covered swathes of New Zealand on Thursday with heavy downpours prompting a state of...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
US funds supported Nepal’s growing LGBTQ+ community. Now that money is gone
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The metal gates are padlocked now at the Parichaya Samaj center that advocates for LGBTQ+ rights and supports the qu...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Homeless camp in Oregon national forest to be cleared
BEND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service on Thursday is set to evict dozens of homeless people living in an encampment in a federal forest...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
These papal tailors aren’t expecting a traditional order for new cassocks to outfit the next pope
ROME (AP) — Two papal tailors and no conclave orders.
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
A crackdown on diversity programs is reshaping college graduation ceremonies
PHOENIX (AP) — As a first-generation college student, Austin Kissinger was looking forward to celebrating graduation with others of similar...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Florida leads as state and local governments sign on for Trump’s mass deportations
MIAMI (AP) — The roster of local police departments and state agencies that have joined President Donald Trump’s drive for mass deportations...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
In this Indian city, smartwatches are part of the solution to dealing with searing heat
AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — It’s a little past 10 a.m. and the heat is already blazing on the outskirts of the Western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
TransLink to expand Metro Vancouver bus service with newly approved investment plan
BURNABY - Metro Vancouver's transportation authority says a plan is in place to fund the largest increase in bus service in the region since...
The Toronto Star
May 1, 2025
Andrea Horwath hospitalized. Thousands without power. How ‘one heck of a storm’ left southern Ontario running for cover
Andrea Horwath was left hospitalized and thousands were without power, as a record-setting windstorm swept across much of southern Ontario o...
The Toronto Star
April 30, 2025
Ex-FBI informant who made up bribery story about the Bidens will stay in prison, judge rules
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge has denied the U.S. government's request to release from prison a former FBI informant who fabricated a sto...
The Toronto Star
April 30, 2025
UN calls for Mali to probe alleged executions by army and Russian mercenaries
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — United Nations experts on Wednesday urged Malian authorities to investigate reports of alleged summary executions and...
The Toronto Star
April 30, 2025
FBI reassigns agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that fo...
The Toronto Star
April 30, 2025
Snowmelt means possibly contaminated water being discharged from Yukon mine site
WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government says the spring snowmelt means a "large amount" of extra water is being managed at the site of the Eagle G...
The Toronto Star
April 30, 2025
Appellate court won’t lift restrictions on DOGE access to Social Security information
A federal appeals court says it won't lift restrictions on the access that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has to Social Sec...
The Toronto Star
April 30, 2025
Nenshi says Alberta premier’s efforts backfired on the federal Conservative party
EDMONTON - In the wake of a federal election that saw the Liberals form a minority government, Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi says it's cl...
The Toronto Star
April 30, 2025
Memorial wall to fallen USAID staffers is removed from the agency’s former building
WASHINGTON (AP) — Contractors hired by the Trump administration have removed a memorial wall to fallen staffers from the now-closed headquar...
The Toronto Star
April 30, 2025
PHOTO ESSAY: Immigrants in the Texas Panhandle live in limbo under Trump’s crackdown
PANHANDLE, Texas (AP) — This is a documentary photo story curated by AP photo editors.
The Toronto Star
April 30, 2025
Toronto cop who was given ‘last chance’ resigns ahead of misconduct hearing on domestic violence allegations
Seth Rietkoetter was previously disciplined for Tasering and kneeing the neck of a Black University of Toronto student in a high-profile cas...
The Toronto Star
April 30, 2025