This news bulletin covers several major events: the destructive wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles, the US Supreme Court hearing on TikTok's future, and other news stories from around the world.
Firefighters began to slow the spread of deadly and devastating fires in the Los Angeles area Thursday after the ferocious winds that drove the fast-moving flames diminished, but the largest blazes still burned out of control.The silhouettes of a hulking Chinese Navy destroyer dubbed 'Changsha' and a warship called the 'Yuncheng' can been seen hovering along the horizon, mirroring HMCS Ottawa’s movements.
Lebanon's parliament voted Thursday to elect the country's army commander, Joseph Aoun, as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum.Uruguay’s former guerilla-turned-president, Jose Mujica, announced on Thursday that the cancer in his esophagus had spread to his liver, and that he had chosen to forgo further treatment.Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed.Tech billionaire Elon Musk is hosting a live-streamed chat on his social media platform X on Thursday with a leader of Germany's far-right party, amplifying its message ahead of an upcoming national election and raising concerns across Europe about potential meddling by the world's richest man.Talk of Canada becoming the 51st American state has raised an existential question on this side of the border: Could it be done? Could the maple leaf make way to the stars and stripes? According to several experts, it may be possible, but not painless.Ottawa Liberal MP Chandra Arya is running to be leader of the Liberal party, promising to end the consumer carbon tax and to make Canada a republic. Minister LeBlanc says not running for Liberal leadership, as caucus meets to discuss process to replace Trudeau Longtime cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc will not be running to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as head of the Liberals. He announced his decision in a statement posted to social media on Wednesday.An increasing number of overdose deaths in Ontario involves the use of more than one drug, with the combination of opioids and stimulants proving to be especially dangerous, a new report says. U.S. hospital workers charged in death of non-verbal patient left in scalding bath for nearly an hour Two workers at a state-run hospital in West Virginia have been charged in connection with the death of a 61-year-old non-verbal man who investigators said was left in a scalding hot bath for nearly an hour.A Calgary man who struggled with addiction for more than two decades is questioning why his Facebook account has been showing advertisements for drugs.TikTok's fate arrives at U.S. Supreme Court in collision of free speech and national security In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States use for entertainment and information.
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