Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Melania Trump says women have right to abortion access

Melania Trump is seen attending the Milwaukee-hosted Republican National Convention in July.

Melania Trump writes in her upcoming memoir that a woman has the right to an abortion, The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday, while her husband, Donald Trump, backs the ability for U.S. states to restrict the procedure.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/melania-trump-memoir-abortion-rights-1.7341047?cmp=rss

Online voting in Alaska's Fat Bear Week contest starts after an attack killed 1 contestant

A bear in water

A dozen bears are facing off in this year's Alaska Fat Bear Week. The contest's 10th edition was off to a rough start after one contestant was killed earlier in the week.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/alaska-fat-bear-contest-one-contestant-killed-2024-1.7340488?cmp=rss

Trump acted outside his duties in pressuring Pence, officials after 2020 election loss: prosecutors

Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks at an event in Milwaukee on Oct. 1, 2024.

U.S. prosecutors said Donald Trump was acting outside the scope of his duties as president when he pressured state officials and then-U.S. vice president Mike Pence to try to overturn his 2020 election defeat, in a court filing made public on Wednesday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-2020-election-pressure-allegations-1.7340792?cmp=rss

Doctor who helped get Matthew Perry ketamine pleads guilty

A man in a suit walks past a crowd of reporters.

A San Diego doctor charged in connection with Matthew Perry 's fatal overdose pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to distribute the surgical anesthetic ketamine. Dr. Mark Chavez is the third person to admit guilt in the aftermath of the Friends star's death last year.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/mark-chavez-pleads-guilty-1.7340634?cmp=rss

At least 60 people killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, medics say

A woman sits in the middle of rubble.

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 60 Palestinians overnight, including in a school sheltering displaced families, medics said, as Israeli tanks advanced in areas of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-overnight-deaths-school-1.7339849?cmp=rss