NEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November’s elections, granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his aggressive campaign against noncitizen voting. The court’s three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented from the decision. The emergency order allows states, for now, to use the Trump […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday signed an order banning fixed-odds betting just over a week ahead of the first round of the presidential election, in a move he said was designed to tackle the pervasive problem of families falling into debt. The decision ends the operation, […]

The white Nissan pickup was left on a street in west Phoenix. In the trunk were a tile saw, boxes of ceramic tile and an open bag of adhesive. Ramón Barraza, the man who drove it, never returned for it. It was 7 a.m. when Barraza left the apartment he shared with his girlfriend near […]

Police and privacy officials have been informed of a cyber attack in the Burnaby school district that’s impacted internet, phone and printing services. In a Sept. 25 statement to Freshet News, Burnaby Schools said staff are working to “restore services as quickly and securely as possible.” The district has reported the cyber incident to the […]

Alberta’s Opposition NDP is challenging the legality of new government rules that severely restrict the amount of voter information elections officials can share with provincial political parties. In a court application filed Thursday in Edmonton, the NDP argue the new regulation undermines the purpose of having a voter list as laid out in provincial law. […]

The Burnaby school district hasn’t yet determined if any personal information was accessed in a cyber attack that’s impacting its internet and phone systems. A Sept. 23 statement on the district’s website said it was investigating a cyber incident that had come to its attention on Monday, Sept. 21. “This incident has impacted some of […]

A union challenge to Imperial Oil’s medical forms for disability benefits at its Port Moody terminal has been dismissed on jurisdictional grounds. In an Aug. 7 decision, labour arbitrator Randall J. Noonan ruled he could not decide Unifor Local 601’s policy grievance over the medical consent forms required to access temporary disability benefits. The dispute […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday he was extremely concerned about OpenAI ‘s breach of an Australian health department website and that the artificial intelligence company took too long to reveal the incident. An OpenAI agent infiltrated the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18, he said. The portal […]

Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week. It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North America and Europe. In a letter to employees, Starbucks Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams […]

Gov. JB Pritzker is setting up a new group within state government to explore more regulations for artificial intelligence as calls grow across the country for new restrictions. Pritzker signed an executive order on Tuesday to establish an AI Cabinet made up of experts and representatives from several state agencies. The unpaid group, which will […]

Attorneys representing New Mexico accused Facebook of deceiving users about privacy protections on the social media platform and encouraged jurors during closing arguments Wednesday to find the company liable for thousands of violations of state law. Jurors heard two weeks of evidence and must now decide whether Facebook violated the state’s Unfair Practices Act and […]

The overseas arrest of a disgraced former law dean who defrauded the University of Manitoba out of more than $600,000 is being met both with relief and renewed frustration in the local legal community. “It’s about time,” said Jennifer Schulz, a longtime professor at the U of M’s Robson Hall school of law. “But it’s […]