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Passengers travelling abroad from England will need to fill in a new form proving their trips are essential, the UK government announced on Friday as it stepped up its crackdown on “illegal” foreign trips. From March 8, passengers will need to carry a form that sets out their trip is permitted under England’s lockdown restrictions, […]

SANTA ANA—A veteran Orange County sheriff’s employee is on administrative leave and the subject of an internal investigation for her part in attending the rally that led to the Capitol breach on Jan. 6. Monica Alston, a sheriff’s special officer, has been with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department since 1999, but was on personal leave

OTTAWA—The Supreme Court of Canada says two men convicted of terrorism offences received a fair trial even though the judge made errors in assembling the jury. The top court explained its reasoning today for ruling last October there would be no new trial for Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier. The men were found guilty in

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), the Democrat lawmaker embroiled in a Chinese spy saga who served as a House manager in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment, filed a lawsuit Friday against Trump and others in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol incident. Swalwell, who has been dogged by the story that he was targeted by an

YANGON, Burma—YouTube removed five channels run by Burma’s military (also known as Myanmar) for violating its guidelines, it announced Friday, as demonstrators defied growing violence by security forces and staged more anti-coup protests ahead of a special UN Security Council meeting on the country’s political crisis. YouTube said it is watching for any further content

The UK health authorities have located the person who tested positive for the Brazilian COVID-19 variant but did not register their personal information, Public Health England (PHE) confirmed on Friday. PHE said on Feb. 28 that six cases of the Brazilian P.1 variant had been detected in the UK, three in England, and three more

An Arizona sheriff reported that the halting of wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border has left areas wide open for Mexican cartels to operate. In January, President Joe Biden issued executive orders to pause the construction of the wall that was promoted heavily by the previous administration. But that “stopped resources and stopped construction on

TORONTO—Inspector Graham Gibson never bought into the argument that autism prevented Alek Minassian from knowing that killing unsuspecting pedestrians on a crowded sidewalk was morally wrong. But despite the strong case he built as the lead detective in the Toronto van attack case, Gibson had nervously awaited the verdict unsure of the outcome. “You never

The Oklahoma House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday that would ban the government from closing churches and places of worship in scenarios like the COVID-19 pandemic. The Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act passed the state’s House of Representatives 80-18 and now heads to the state’s Senate. “People came to this continent seeking religious freedom and to escape a

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not instill a sense of confidence when questioned about its promise of a free media environment for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games at its regular press briefing on March 2, 2021. The question referred to a report released by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) on March 1,