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A proteston Friday culminated with heated words inside a Kelowna, B.C., city bylaw office. A group of about 10 people, including residents of tent city and concerned community members, walked from the outdoor sheltering site to the bylaw office several blocks away.As they marched, the group grew as other unhoused individuals joined along the way.The demonstrators chanted “stop the sweeps” as they walked in protest of what they call daily and unnecessary tent city sweeps by bylaw officers.“They used to come every few days to take more garbage or take big items,” said Erica Stewart, who lived at tent city…

Wendy Wu’s new “super luxury” Legends of the Silk Road tour leaves on September 15, 2025, and includes three nights on the opulent and brand new Silk Road Express train.“The biggest and most exciting thing is that for the first time we are going to do super-luxury,” Wendy says.“We never really went into ultimate luxury before.”Wendy Wu Tours is known for small groups, well-planned experiences and good value. Wendy herself is smart, meticulous and a careful planner, and her tours reflect this. Her touch is there.But Legends of the Silk Road in China steps outside that.From September 15 to September…

Warning that a “profound change of American geopolitics” had put Poland, as well as Ukraine, in an “objectively more difficult situation,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland on Friday said his country must drastically increase the size of its military and even “reach for opportunities related to nuclear weapons.”Mr. Tusk, in a detailed speech on security to the Polish Parliament, did not explicitly propose developing a nuclear arsenal, but said that “it is time for us to look boldly at our possibilities of having the most modern weapons” and explore options for nuclear and “modern unconventional weapons.”He added that his…

State Department staff were taken aback this week by a department directive instructing embassies and consulates to stop publishing air quality monitoring data.  CBS News has reviewed the message that was sent to staff on March 4, which says “currently there is no anticipated date for real-time data to be available.” Embassy staff and their families relied on the reports to alert them to poor air quality days. “I was shocked by the announcement,” said a current staffer, who asked to remain anonymous due to concerns about their job, and who said the decision doesn’t make much sense as the…

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — For a tournament that bills itself as a tennis paradise, Indian Wells has a tendency to bring some Old Testament elements to the sport in the California desert.The sun that blazes down in the day is replaced with temperatures that can turn frigid at night. In a part of the world that sees rain around 14 days out of 365, a few always seem to land in the first fortnight of March, interrupting play. Last year, bees swarmed the main stadium. This year, the sworn enemy of tennis players at all levels — that rarely stops…

An armed man who posted threatening messages on social media and was suspected of planning a mass shooting at a Virginia church during service was convicted of a hate crime on Thursday, officials said.The man, Rui Jiang, 36, was found guilty of three charges, including attempting to obstruct congregants’ free exercise of religious beliefs, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said.He was also found guilty of a firearms violation and transmitting online threats, prosecutors said.Mr. Jiang faces life in prison, with a mandatory minimum of five years, when he is sentenced on June 18.Lawyers for Mr.…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size One person was left with stab wounds after a selfless act in Vernon, B.C., allegedly turned violent. “He just did a good deed, tried to break up an assault against a female, and next thing you know, he’s stabbed,” said witness Ryan Marchand.Around 4:45 p.m. Thursday along Centennial Drive in Vernon, witnesses say they saw a man and a woman fighting, but things quickly escalated when a bystander intervened.“Two homeless people were in an argument and the male was hitting the female. So, this guy wanted to step in and stop it,…

Rising Australian golf star Karl Vilips is firmly in the mix at the halfway stage of the Puerto Rico Open after shooting an impressive five-under 67 in the second round.The 23-year-old from Western Australia went blemish-free at the Grand Reserve Golf Club to be 12-under for the tournament, which is being played opposite the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.Beginning on the back nine, Vilips made birdies on the 11th and 14th before adding more on the first, sixth and the ninth, his closing hole.It is sure to give one-time child-prodigy Vilips plenty of momentum heading into the weekend, as…

Laws passed by the autonomous Republika Srpska region reject the authority of the federal police and judiciary.Bosnia’s Constitutional Court has suspended legislation passed by the autonomous Republika Srpska region which rejects the authority of the federal police and judiciary on its territory. The court said on Friday that it was “temporarily suspending” the laws that Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik pushed through the regional parliament earlier this week. The laws were passed days after a court in Sarajevo sentenced Dodik to a year in prison and banned from office for six years for refusing to comply with decisions made by…

The Trump administration on Friday forced out a handful of senior Justice Department officials, further thinning the ranks of career officials who help guide the agency, according to several people familiar with the actions.The ouster of lawyers managing the Justice Department’s pardon work, bankruptcy litigation and other legal issues marks the latest move by the new administration to remove or reassign senior officials with many years of experience. The official overseeing the Office of Professional Responsibility, which handles internal ethics investigations, was also removed from that role, though he was placed on administrative leave, these people said.The removals follow a…