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An illegal immigrant who was deported but returned to the United States has been sentenced to two decades in prison for kidnapping a woman. Luis Analberto Pineda-Anchecta, a native of Honduras, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Conrad Jr. late last month for kidnapping a woman identified by law enforcement as his ex-girlfriend. Police officers […]

Las Vegas Sands Corp, founded by late casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, will sell its Vegas properties for $6.25 billion, exiting the U.S. gambling hot spot after three decades to focus on Asia, home to the world’s largest gambling hub, Macau. The sale comes nearly two months after the death of Adelson—widely credited with helping transform

The constitutional rights and freedoms of Canadians are front and centre in a flurry of legal challenges to pandemic measures, as civil liberties groups take on multiple cases they say represent unconstitutional measures implemented by authorities. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has court actions underway or pending, as of Feb. 25, against five provinces

Commentary Let’s start with relevant facts. Mumbai is India’s largest city (20 million residents), its major financial center (India’s central bank is located there) and the capital of the state of Maharashtra, a financial powerhouse unto itself. Those facts alone make Mumbai a target for any group seeking to weaken India, much less wage war

The Arizona Department of Education is providing teachers and parents with an “equity and diversity toolkit” that aims to show how racism can manifest in children as young as three months old, and that white children “remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness” by the age of five. According to the department’s website, the toolkit

ANKENY, Iowa—The discovery of a live pipe bomb at a central Iowa polling place as voters were casting ballots in a special election forced an evacuation of the building, police said. Officers called to the Lakeside Center in Ankeny around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday found a device that looked like a pipe bomb in the grass

Montreal born-and-bred Hillel Neuer is on a mission to hold the United Nations to account, while calling out member states’ human rights abuses or inaction on atrocities. The executive director of Geneva-based UN Watch recently reiterated his criticism of China’s seat at the UN Human Rights Council, saying in a tweet that the UNHRC “will

Facing twin scandals and growing pressure to step down, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared Wednesday that he will not resign. “I wasn’t elected by politicians. I was elected by the people of the state of New York. I’m not going to resign,” Cuomo told reporters during a press conference in Albany, in his first

Several Dr. Seuss books that were essentially banned by the organization which preserves and protects the author’s legacy are now selling for hundreds or even thousands of dollars on eBay. The organization, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, said that six books—“McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!,” “The Cat’s Quizzer,” “And to Think That I Saw It on

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on March 3 listed managing the United States’ relationship with the Chinese regime as a top priority of the Biden administration, describing it as “the biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century.” Blinken, in his first speech outlining the Biden administration’s foreign policy strategy, said the challenge posed by the