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PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Attorneys for Iowa 22-year-old Joshua Riibe, the key witness in the mysterious disappearance of University of Pittsburgh spring breaker Sudiksha Konanki, have filed a writ of habeas corpus seeking an end to his de facto house arrest at the resort where she vanished, according to local media.The search for Konanki entered its 11th day Monday with no signs of her whereabouts.Riibe, who has not been named a suspect or charged with a crime, spent the entire time at the Riu Republica resort, where he was seen on the same video surveillance as Konanki before she…

The Atlantic Wildlife Institute in New Brunswick has reported its first bird flu case of 2025, calling it “heartbreaking and worrisome.” A red-breasted merganser, found sick in a backyard in Shediac last month, was taken to the AWI but died shortly after arriving.“Alive upon arrival, the signs were severe enough to indicate illness, and with our bio-security protocols still in effect, the merganser was immediately put into quarantine where she passed a short time later,” the AWI posted on Facebook.Tests showed the bird had avian flu, although a final confirmation will be done by a national lab in Winnipeg.The virus…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sudden attempt to remove the head of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency is the latest salvo in a two-year campaign by the Israeli government to exert more control over different branches of the state.The move prompted calls on Monday for mass protests and led to criticism from business leaders and the attorney general, summoning memories of the social upheaval in 2023 that was set off by a similar push to reduce the power of state watchdogs.Mr. Netanyahu’s plan to hold a cabinet vote on the future of Ronen Bar, the head of the agency known as the…

The line fell silent.In a phone call from the Oval Office, President Trump had just delivered unwelcome news to three of America’s most powerful auto executives: Mary Barra of General Motors, John Elkann of Stellantis and Jim Farley of Ford.Everyone needs to buckle up, Mr. Trump said on the call, which took place in early March. Tariffs are going into effect on April 2. It’s time for everyone to get on board.The auto chiefs, like the leaders of other industries, had been arguing that Mr. Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on cars coming from Canada and Mexico would wreak havoc on…

More than 5.6 million people call Australia’s outer suburban growth areas home – numbers that rival or surpass many of the nation’s largest regional cities. 

A federal judge in Washington plans to press the Trump administration at a hearing on Monday about whether it has violated an order he issued barring officials from removing any detained noncitizens — including several suspected Venezuelan gang members — from the country with little or no due process.The hearing was scheduled by the judge, James E. Boasberg, even as President Trump’s so-called border czar, Tom Homan, made defiant remarks on television, indicating that the administration planned to continue such deportations despite the court’s order — an action that could thrust the country into a constitutional crisis, pitting one of…

By Nakoda Thunderchief Global News Posted March 17, 2025 1:53 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size RBC Training Ground gives young athletes a chance to test their skills and be scouted by national sport organizations. Athletes tried out at the University of Lethbridge on March 15. The program, now in its 10th year, aims to identify and fund future Olympians, matching them with sports they may have never considered. With 21 Olympians and 14 medals already linked to the program, its success speaks for itself. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around…

The United States is in the midst of a soft coup. The country is being reshaped and restructured under the second administration of Donald Trump. It is not Trump himself, but his billionaire special adviser, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, who is guiding this change. And in Musk’s America, there is one demographic that seems to have found itself at centre stage and rapidly gaining power: “nerds”. Indeed, Musk’s mendacious band of merry, young white and white-adjacent acolytes, including Gavin Kliger, Edward Coristine, and Marko Elez, who has gained control over multitrillion-dollar government systems, easily fit the…

MSNBC panel grills Schumer for supporting GOP spending bill Former Michigan gubernatorial  candidate Tudor Dixon on President Donald Trump’s approval rating, Democrats gearing up for the 2028 election and an MSNBC panel slamming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for supporting the GOP spending bill. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s book, “Antisemitism in America: A Warning,” is slated for release on Tuesday, but promotional events for the long-serving lawmaker’s book that were scheduled for this week are being called off.”Due to security concerns, Senator Schumer’s book events are being rescheduled,” a statement to Fox from a book tour spokesperson noted.The senator…

An air strike by South Sudan’s airforce killed at least 19 people in the country’s east, residents said, less than two weeks after government forces withdrew from the area following intense fighting with an ethnic militia.The clashes in Nasir, near the Ethiopian border, between national forces and the White Army, a loosely organised group mostly comprising armed ethnic Nuer youths, had threatened to reignite the 2013-2018 civil war in which hundreds of thousands of people died.The government accuses the party of First Vice President Riek Machar, a Nuer, of collaborating with the White Army, which fought alongside Machar’s forces during…