Forest fire forces evacuation of 500 homes in Chapais, Que.
A forest fire near Chapais in northern Quebec has forced the evacuation of about 500 homes, almost half the community.Evacuees in the southern sector of the town were taken to the...
UNAIDS celebrates Pride Month, demands decriminalization worldwide
Pride Month provides an opportunity to celebrate the resilience, diversity, and achievements of LGBTQI individuals, UNAIDS said in a press release, while also reflecting on continuing struggle for full equality,...
Machine learning-based protein annotation tool predicts protein function
Snekmer is an application for building and searching protein family models and novel sequence clusters. Credit: Jason McDermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Microbes drive key processes of life on Earth....
CNN hires David Zaslav confidant as new COO, underscoring bond
Chris Licht, Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide.Courtesy: CNNCNN CEO Chris Licht is about to get some help running his news network from a longtime close confidant of Warner Bros....
Stuart Broad says England played the way Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum would have wanted them to | Cricket News
Stuart Broad felt England played the way Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum would have wanted them to as they made a near-perfect start to a big summer of cricket.Broad's five-wicket...
Bochara Victoria crash: Alicia Montebello, 31, accused of grooming teens sent disturbing messages
The woman who died alongside three teenagers in an horrific car crash had pledged her love for a young teenage girl and posted pictures of her kissing the youngster.Alicia Montebello,...
US bankruptcies: Houston, we have a solution
US restructuring lawyers have to be tough. Houston’s summer humidity is just the start of the endurance test for them. The city’s federal court is a magnet for Chapter 11...
Dollar General shares plunge 20% after gloomy sales forecast
A squeeze on budget shoppers has forced US discount retailer Dollar General to cut its sales forecast, sending its shares down 20 per cent in a sign of mounting pressures...
RCMP says it has shut down ‘illegal police activity’ connected to alleged Chinese ‘police stations’
The RCMP says it has "shut down illegal police activity in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia" connected to so-called Chinese "police stations" — but it hasn't said whether it has...
Rocks Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet Reveal Surprising Past
The field camp on Thwaites glacier where the team were based for drilling. Credit: Greg Balco (Berkeley Geochronology Center)Researchers from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration found that the West Antarctic...