A bank in Wales says it received a postcard from 121 years ago
As It Happens6:05A bank in Wales says it received a postcard from 121 years ago Henry Darby has a piece of local history trucked away in his top desk drawer …
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Australian B-Girl Raygun ‘devastated’ by online hate after Olympic performance
Rachael Gunn, also known as B-Girl Raygun, spoke out Thursday after several whirlwind days of memes, accusations and conspiracy theories surrounding her performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In a …
He died at just 35 in 1947. Now Josh Gibson is baseball’s batting average champ
Josh Gibson, who died just three months before the league’s colour barrier was broken, is now the holder of multiple Major League Baseball records as the result of a three-year …
Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dead at 53
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee who ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. Spurlock died …
Toronto athlete named to Olympic refugee team for Paris
Nigara Shaheen finally feels the freedom to fully prepare for an Olympic Games. The 30-year-old Afghan judoka, who has been living and training in Toronto for a year and a …
Alabama signs law protecting IVF providers from legal liability
Alabama’s governor swiftly signed legislation into law late Wednesday shielding doctors from potential legal liability raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children, after facing pressure to get …
Audrina 28 birth control pill stickers misprinted in some lots, Health Canada says
Certain lots of Audrina 28 birth control pills contain day-of-the-week stickers that have a misprint that could lead to confusion around when to take the medication, Health Canada says. Audrina …
Why some aging spies won’t walk out of U.S. prisons, long after the Cold War
Aldrich Ames was done selling secrets, but the unravelling of his treachery had just begun. On Feb. 21, 1994, the bespectacled, Jaguar-driving, Central Intelligence Agency lifer, with a cash-purchased home in a Washington …
Air Canada found liable for chatbot’s bad advice on plane tickets
Air Canada has been ordered to pay compensation to a grieving grandchild who claimed they were misled into purchasing full-price flight tickets by an ill-informed chatbot. In an argument that …
The running of the runners-up: In Iowa caucuses, the suspense involves second place
Americans begin the months-long process of selecting their president with virtually no doubt about who will win the first Republican nominating contest on Monday in Iowa. Barring a catastrophic error in …