10 h. ago ‘I HOPE HE ROTS’: Toronto woman reveals horrific details of alleged random attack in Vancouver

A Toronto woman has gone into detail about the horrific beating she says she took from a random stranger while on vacation in Vancouver this month. The young woman named Stephanie said she was attacked along the Coal Harbour seawall. According to Vancouver Police, the assault occurred in the early morning hours of April 15. […]

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32 h. ago Toronto woman describes her fight for survival from stranger attack along Coal Harbour seawall

'It felt like he was a predator and I was prey. He locked in on me,' the woman said in a TikTok video posted Tuesday

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38 h. ago Toronto's Union Station now surrounded by ugly concrete anti

Giant concrete blocks now surround Toronto's Union Station, the utilitarian product of a terrorist attack that shook the city seven years earlier.Pedestrians passing the city's primary transit hub have likely noticed these prominent anti-terror barriers in recent months, just the latest round of work at the perpetually under-construction Union Station.The new barriers will replace temporary concrete dividers that have surrounded the station for years.Jersey barriers were first installed around the hub in 2018 in the wake of the tragic Toronto van attack, where a man driven by "incel" ideology slammed a rented van into pedestrians along Yonge Street in North York, resulting in 11 deaths and 15 more people injured.While the barriers have indeed made it impossible for cars to be utilized as weapons in the high-traffic area along Front Street, the ad-hoc design and placement of these security measures did not exactly make them pleasant to look at.The barriers were...

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41 h. ago Horrific van attack on Toronto’s Yonge St. remembered 7 years later

It was the most horrific 10 minutes in Toronto’s history. On April 23, 2018, a 25-year-old man driving a rented van mowed down scores of innocent people going about their daily lives along Yonge St. in North York, killing 10 and injuring 16. An additional victim died of her injuries in 2021. Of the 11 […]

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42 h. ago Swimmer’s remains found after shark attack in waters off Israel’s coast

JERUSALEM — A man in Israel has died after he was attacked by a shark, police and the victim’s wife said Wednesday, after he went swimming in an area that draws dozens of the marine predator and also curious beachgoers. After a two-day search, police said remains that had been found at the site of […]

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43 h. ago Investigators probe deadly attack in Kashmir as India vows to punish perpetrators

SRINAGAR, India — Security has been beefed up across Indian-controlled Kashmir a day after an attack killed at least 26 people, most of them tourists, as Indian forces launched a manhunt for the perpetrators of one of the deadliest attacks in the restive Himalayan region and leaders vowed to punish the perpetrators. Tens of thousands […]

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57 h. ago Nova Music Festival Exhibition to open in Toronto with personal items from victims of Hamas attack

'Everything that you’ll see inside is real, from the toilets to the tents to the signs and the bar. People (were) murdered literally inside'

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3 d. ago Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at El Paso Walmart pleads guilty to capital murder

EL PASO, Texas — The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Walmart in El Paso — one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history — pleaded guilty Monday to capital murder in a state district court. Patrick Crusius was automatically be sentenced to life in prison without parole in […]

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1 week ago Attack by gunmen leaves at least 40 people dead in Nigeria: President

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president said on Monday that at least 40 people were killed when Muslim gunmen, believed to be herders, attacked a Christian farming community in the north-central part of the country, the latest in an increasing wave of violence in the West African country. President Bola Tinubu also said he has […]

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1 week ago Russia claims its deadly attack on Ukraine’s Sumy targeted military forces as condemnation grows

BRUSSELS — Russia on Monday claimed its deadly missile attack on Ukraine’s Sumy that killed and wounded scores including children had targeted a gathering of Ukrainian troops, while European leaders condemned the attack as a war crime. Ukrainian officials have said two ballistic missiles on Palm Sunday morning hit the heart of Sumy, a city […]

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1 week ago Police investigating arson attack at Pennsylvania governor’s residence

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Police said Sunday that officers evacuated Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family from the official governor’s residence after someone set fire to the building. No one was injured and the fire was extinguished, according to authorities. The fire broke out overnight on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which […]

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2 w. ago Shark attack survivor presses her state for alert system to keep people safe

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama teen who narrowly survived a fierce shark attack last year said she hopes a proposed alert system before state lawmakers can help keep others safe in the water. Lulu Gribbin, now 16, was one of three people bitten by a shark on June 7, 2024, during a string of attacks […]

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2 w. ago Bill Murray clashes with pushy fan: ‘ATTACK ME LIKE THAT AGAIN’

Bill Murray confronted a fan invading his personal space while leaving a movie theatre in New York City. In a video shot last month that has now gone viral, the Ghostbusters star is seen walking away with another man right behind him near an escalator at the theatre. The man appears to trip Murray from […]

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2 w. ago Teen girl pleads guilty to assault in fatal group attack on Toronto man Kenneth Lee

A teen girl set to face trial for manslaughter in the death of a homeless Toronto man has pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of assault.

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3 w. ago 2 killed and dozens wounded in Russian attack on Kharkiv as Trump lashes out at Putin

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones hit a military hospital, shopping center and apartment blocks in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, killing two people and wounding dozens, while U.S. President Donald Trump voiced anger at Russian President Vladimir Putin for comments he made about the leader of Ukraine. Ukraine’s General Staff denounced the “deliberate, targeted […]

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last month Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart is offered plea deal to avoid death penalty

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart near the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019 would avoid the death penalty under a plea offer announced Tuesday, abruptly ending years of efforts by prosecutors to see that he face execution by lethal injection. El Paso County District Attorney James […]

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