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By Steve Lambert The Canadian Press Posted May 9, 2025 2:07 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A man has died and another is missing after a boating malfunction on Lake Manitoba. RCMP say a boat stopped working yesterday with two men on board from Sandy Bay First Nation.Due to strong winds, the area fire department could not launch its boat to help.Police say a bystander on the beach saw both men in the water trying to swim to shore, and neither man was wearing a life-jacket. Get daily National news Get the day’s…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Vanessa Trump may not be the president’s daughter-in-law anymore, but it appears Tiger Woods is still able to maintain relationships with both sides.Woods, 49, announced back in March that he is dating Trump, who was married to Donald Trump Jr. from 2005 until their divorce in 2018.However, the president gave Vanessa his blessing on the relationship, and Woods was spotted at the White House on Thursday. Tiger Woods of Jupiter Links Golf Club waves to fans as he is introduced at the start of a match of the TMRW Golf League (TGL)…

A cardinal on the inside says the conclave to elect Pope Leo XIV was fraternal in atmosphere, without the high drama of the award-winning film of the same name.Conclave, released late last year, just months before the real-life secret meeting of cardinals in Rome this week, imagined the tension, bureaucracy, twists and turns behind the secret meeting to elect a new leader of the Catholic Church.But Cardinal Vincent Nichols, leader of Catholics in England and Wales, who was taking part in his first conclave, insisted reality could not have been further from the silver screen drama.He told reporters in Rome…

Tourists fled the city by road as the airport was closed. “We really wanted to stay but the loud sounds, sirens, and blackouts are giving us sleepless nights. Our families back home are worried for us so we have booked a cab and are leaving,” said a British national who did not want to be named. Schools and coaching centres were closed in the Bikaner region of India’s desert state of Rajasthan, and residents near the Pakistan border said they were asked to move further away and consider moving in with relatives or using accommodation arranged by the government. Further…

The debut of attack drones in the conflict between India and Pakistan injects a new and worrying style of warfare between the two nuclear armed powers, experts said.But it was also inevitable, given the proliferation of armed drones in combat worldwide.Both India and Pakistan have been developing their respective drone-building industries in recent years, and both import drones from foreign allies. Most of what is being deployed now amid the latest conflict, after an attack in the disputed Kashmir region, appear to be one-way Kamikaze drones that became ubiquitous in the war in Ukraine and will all but certainly be…

The director Ava DuVernay on Thursday added her voice to those defending the Smithsonian Institution following President Trump’s efforts to try to reshape its depiction of American history.Ms. DuVernay, a prominent Black filmmaker whose works have included “Selma” and “13th,” was receiving the Great Americans Medal in a ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington.Speaking at the award ceremony, Ms. DuVernay praised the Smithsonian for being a place of education and inclusivity. “Let me tell you about the families — Black, white, Native, immigrant — who walk through the doors of Smithsonian museums and feel that…

Representative Jeff Van Drew, a Republican who has resisted his party’s efforts to cut Medicaid to pay for President Trump’s domestic agenda, says he has a powerful ally on his side: Mr. Trump himself.“He does not want to hurt Medicaid,” said Mr. Van Drew, a congressman from New Jersey. “He hasn’t said it once, twice, three times — it’s been about half a dozen times. And I’ve had those conversations with him one on one.”Mr. Trump has traditionally acted as House Republicans’ most effective whip when they are facing tough votes, leaning on holdouts in person and on social media…

Ontario’s top doctor says measles cases in the province remain stable and largely isolated to a few specific cultural communities, but concedes convincing those groups to get vaccinated is “slow going.” Since October, Ontario has recorded more than 1,400 new measles cases, linked to an outbreak that began at a large gathering with guests from Mennonite communities in New Brunswick last fall.The province recorded 197 new active cases over the past week, its outbreak continuing weeks after neighbouring Quebec was able to declare its outbreak over.Those numbers have led to growing criticism of the Ford government’s response and calls for…

Tens of thousands are expected to join the call for urgent action to end gendered violence in nationwide rallies.

WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump signalled on Friday (May 9) that he could lower tariffs on Chinese imports, as the rival superpowers prepare for trade talks in Switzerland over the weekend. “80% Tariff on China seems right!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, which would bring them down from 145 per cent, with cumulative duties on some goods reaching a staggering 245 per cent. He added that it was “Up to Scott B.”, referring to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who will confer with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng this weekend in Geneva to try to cool the conflict…