• Associated Press

    Kennedy blasts Biden, Trump over pandemic measures in pitch at Libertarian convention

    Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., accused Joe Biden and Donald Trump Friday of trampling on personal liberties in response to the pandemic that spanned their presidencies. Kennedy, who has long claimed to be a victim of government and media censorship of his unorthodox views, said Americans have lost faith in their leaders and institutions, and he pledged to restore it. “Maybe a brain worm ate that part of my memory, but I don’t recall any part of the United States Constitution where there’s an exemption for pandemics,” Kennedy said, referencing a New York Times report that he was diagnosed more than a decade ago with a parasite that lodged in his brain.

  • BBC

    Big Weekend: Chase & Status provide Friday fireworks

    Becky Hill, Ella Henderson, Rudimental and Nathan Dawe also performed through the day on the Main Stage.

  • The Canadian Press

    Police watchdog investigates RCMP over threats against B.C. woman, later found dead

    SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia's police watchdog has launched an investigation into the RCMP's handling of alleged threats made five months ago against Tatjana Stefanski, who disappeared from her home in April and was later found dead. The Independent Investigations Office says it is probing the police response to a December 2023 incident in Lumby, in the B.C. Interior, and that the Lumby and Vernon RCMP detachments received a report "indicating concern for the safety of a woman." Stefanski's h