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Unrelenting rainwater cascaded through casino ceilings and drenched party-goers in Las Vegas for the second time in two weeks after intense summer thunderstorms and torrential rain continue to drench the city.Extraordinary footage from inside the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas strip in Nevada's capital showed rain pouring through the…

A summary conviction and fine that is built into Nova Scotia's Residential Tenancies Act hasn't been used since 1990 — as far back as the provincial Department of Justice's records go. The summary conviction is included in section 23 of the act, and applies to any landlord or tenant who "violates or fails to comply with any order, direction or…

Comment on this storyCommentSAN FRANCISCO — Reversing course under growing public pressure, major tech security company Cloudflare announced Saturday that it will stop protecting the Kiwi Farms website, best known as a place for stalkers to organize hacks, online campaigns and real-world harassment.Cloudflare Chief Executive Matthew Prince, who…

Gao Zhibin and his daughter left Beijing on Feb. 24 for a better life, a safer one. Over the next 35 days, by airplane, train, boat, bus and foot, they traveled through nine countries. By the time they touched American soil in late March, Mr. Gao had lost 30 pounds.The most harrowing part of their journey was trekking through the brutal jungle…

The next generation of COVID-19 booster shots — tailored specifically to combat the super-infectious family of Omicron subvariants — could roll out early next month. The long-in-the-works offering would mark an ambitious new phase in the nation’s vaccination campaign and, officials say, give residents another option to protect themselves ahead…

Homicide investigators have publicly identified the three people shot at South Surrey Athletic Park last weekend, and are renewing their appeal for witnesses to the incident. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a news release Friday evening that the three people shot were 26-year-old Harbir Khosa, 20-year-old…

Comment on this storyCommentSANTIAGO, Chile — Chileans on Sunday delivered a resounding rejection to a new leftist constitution that aimed to transform the country into a more egalitarian society.In a referendum, Chilean voters were asked to approve or reject a proposal to replace the country’s 1980 dictatorship-era constitution — considered one…

Fred Hanley may not be a name many are familiar with when it comes to the history of Chelsea. He was here for only a year in the 1930s and never kicked a ball in a first-team fixture, but Hanley’s significance goes beyond that: he was the Blues’ first-ever black player. This is his story... In May 1938, Chelsea announced the…

Today, the Media Center of the People's Defense Forces issued a statement to public opinion on the operations of the Guerrilla forces and the attacks of the Turkish occupation army, which stated: “The Turkish occupation army is bombing the squares of our Guerrilla forces in northern Kurdistan and…

Judith Durham, Australia's folk music icon who achieved global fame as the lead singer of The Seekers, has died. She was 79. Durham died in Alfred Hospital in Melbourne on Friday night after suffering complications from a long-standing lung disease, Universal Music Australia and Musicoast said in a statement on Saturday. She made her first…