DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In Miami, Daniela Fuentes styled hair for clients and performed in drag at a nightclub called Azúcar. She wore her blond wig in public and dressed as the woman she had known herself to be since adolescence in Cuba. Now, more than 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) away in the Central African […]

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — The U.S. government and Zambia signed a health financing deal on Thursday after agreeing to remove specimen-sharing and patient-data clauses that had stalled the conclusion of the pact. The Zambian government also said that the deal does not contain any clauses linked to the country’s abundant mineral resources, which will be […]

Just because Google and Apple are now calling it Lake America doesn’t mean everyone has to. After President Donald Trump ordered a new name for Lake Ontario, the two U.S. tech giants quickly fell in line, relabeling the body of water on their digital maps. The move sparked a backlash among some users, already unhappy […]

A prominent Alberta separatist has shared an online claim that the provincial NDP used its access to the province’s voter list to request hundreds of thousands mail-in ballots for this month’s referendum. The claim includes an edited video of NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi talking about the party’s access to the list. However, a former chief […]

Canadian Mennonite University says it was hit by a cyberattack that accessed the personal details of employees, as well as past and current students. The Winnipeg-based university says the compromised data includes social insurance numbers, addresses, earnings, birth dates and more.  It says the cyberattackers were able to access sensitive employee information going back to […]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Wednesday brushed off a court battle launched by the Opposition NDP over her government’s changes to voter list rules. Smith told reporters in Edmonton that the new restrictions were called for by elections officials earlier this year after a major data breach involving a separatist group and the pro-Independence Republican […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request by a conservative group to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with artificial intelligence-generated voices, before November’s midterm elections. Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellphones unless the caller gets consent beforehand. The petition calls for a waiver that would allow political […]

After public comment at a nearly seven-hour Livingston City Commission meeting Monday night on whether a polarizing film could continue shooting in city limits, vice chair James Willich rifled through his notebook. “24 pages of notes,” he muttered. “That’s a new record!” By the end of the night, commissioners voted unanimously to allow the Daily […]

Edmonton mother Salomy Abusalim is running out of excuses to give her son when he asks why his dad is still in Gaza. “This is killing me as a mom. I can’t keep going on, lying to him,” said Abusalim, whose husband has been trapped in Gaza due to bureaucratic difficulties. “My husband was starving, […]

BERLIN (AP) — A former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service who is charged with passing state secrets to a foreign intelligence service was ordered held in pretrial detention after a judge issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday. August Hanning, 80, who is “strongly suspected of treasonous espionage, spying out state secrets, attempted treason, and […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A cyberattack on Arizona’s court system stole personal information for more than a million people and is believed to have started when a court employee clicked a malicious link in an email. The Arizona Supreme Court said the information was copied for 1.3 million people with unpaid court fees, fines and restitution […]

A lawyer for the Alberta government argued Tuesday that temporary restrictions on what voter information can be provided to political parties won’t affect the upcoming referendum. Mandy England made the comment in a court challenge launched by the Opposition NDP against the new rules. The rules, published last month, say Elections Alberta can only provide […]