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A Washington state father is pressing for answers about the investigation into his 18-year-old daughter’s on-campus death at a California university earlier this year. Liz Hamel, 18, was found unconscious outside a dorm on the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara Feb. 14 after apparently falling from a breezeway. She died days later. But what happened leading up to her death remains a mystery. “Over the past few months, we’ve been briefed by UC Santa Barbara PD, and they’ve been very kind to us. They’ve been … empathetic. But, of course, since it’s an ongoing investigation, they can’t give us a…

By Kelly Geraldine Malone The Canadian Press Posted May 2, 2025 6:15 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The U.S. Department of Justice says four Mexican nationals have been charged with allegedly running a human smuggling operation across the Canadian border. A news release says the four men charged thousands of dollars to bring people from Mexico to Canada, then across the international border into northern New York. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. It says that on…

Chris Fagan is skipping the QClash’s new-found romanticism and focusing on the science.Sunday’s sold-out Gabba derby between the second-placed Lions (6-1) and third-placed Gold Coast (5-1) is being dubbed the biggest yet since the Suns’ 2011 AFL introduction.Brisbane coach Fagan talked down its significance on Saturday though, his coaching hat firmly on as he preferred instead to look at the numbers.”Bit nervous, bit toey but it doesn’t make any difference to me,” he said.”Every time we play … there’s a rivalry there. I don’t sense it’s any greater this year in terms of the ladder.”Every side presents its challenges.”They’re the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For the first time in nearly three decades, someone other than Gregg Popovich will be the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs. On Friday, the NBA franchise announced Mitch Johnson’s promotion to head coach.The decision came shortly after it was confirmed Popovich would relinquish his head coaching duties and transition to the team’s full-time president of basketball operations.Popovich has led Spurs basketball operations since 1994, balancing his executive role and coaching role for 29 years. Assistant coach Mitch Johnson and head coach Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs during a game…

JAKARTA: Power on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali has been fully restored as of early Saturday (May 3) morning, a state utility said in a statement, after an hours-long blackout that started on Friday. Darmawan Prasodjo, president director of state electricity firm Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), said early indications were that a disruption in subsea cables was the cause of outage. The subsea cables connect the electricity system in Bali with Java island. The power outage hit a number of regions in Bali on Friday from 4pm, said PLN.  The island’s airport was also impacted but inbound and outbound flights…

These are the key events on day 1,164 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is where things stand on Saturday, May 3: Fighting A resident was killed in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region when a fallen attack drone detonated as the victim was trying to carry it away from a residential house. At least 46 people were injured after Russia launched a mass drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, hitting a high-rise apartment block and triggering fires. Kharkiv’s Mayor Ihor Terekhov said there had been Russian strikes on 12 locations in four central districts of the city. Terekhov said an 11-year-old child…

While President Trump’s budget proposal seeks significant cuts in spending on homelessness programs, its larger impact would come from changes in how the money is spent.With homelessness at record levels, the plan would increase money for emergency shelters but end aid for permanent supportive housing, the focus of a decades-long movement to serve society’s most vulnerable.More than 300,000 people live in such housing, all chronically homeless and disabled. Many are veterans. Critics warn that the change would not only forestall the expansion of the permanent housing stock but force evictions of those it currently helps, who rely on the deep…

The C.I.A. fired its top doctor after she was targeted by far-right activists who have worked to oust government officials they see as disloyal, according to a lawsuit filed Friday evening.Late last year, the C.I.A. recruited the doctor, Terry Adirim, to take a top medical job as the director of the agency’s Center for Global Health Services. Within days, Ivan Raiklin, a far-right provocateur, accused her of being the “architect” of the Pentagon’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.Dr. Adirim, 61, had served in a top medical role in the Defense Department in 2021 when Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III mandated that…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size They run toward what the rest of us run from — gunfire, flames, and unspeakable tragedy. For Canada’s first responders, witnessing the unthinkable is part of the job. But what’s often unseen is what they carry with them long after the sirens fade.“They ask, ‘Are you OK?’” says retired RCMP officer Jonathan Williams. “And I always said, ‘Of course I’m good.’ Because whatever I just came from… was worse.”Williams served 14 years in the RCMP. He describes his time on the force as meaningful — but behind the uniform was a growing…

The waves arrived but so did Ryan Callinan’s newborn, the pre-tournament delivery forcing the Australian to miss his opening-round Gold Coast Pro heat.Callinan’s wife gave birth on Friday night, meaning the Newcastle product was a no-show when the Championship Tour returned to the Gold Coast for the first time since 2019 on Saturday morning.He will still feature though, set to return for the sudden-death second round that will also include high-profile compatriots Jack Robinson and Julian Wilson.Bells Beach champion and No.3-ranked Robinson (9.13 points) couldn’t get going in his heat against Alan Cleland (10.27) and Callum Robson (13.26).Wilson (14.07), back…