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Peel Regional Police say a four-year-old child has died after a possible fall from an apartment building in Mississauga, Ont. In a release, officers said they responded just after 4:30 p.m. Monday to a call for medical assistance at an apartment building near City Centre Drive and Duke of York Boulevard. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories. A child was found on the ground outside the building, with reports indicating they may have fallen from an apartment balcony, police said. More on Canada More videos The…

Brazzaville, Republic of Congo – On main roads and public squares across the Congolese capital, posters are up featuring the seven main candidates vying for president.But at the Moukondo Market in Brazzaville’s fourth district – between lively discussions, people jostling for space and saleswomen trying to attract customers – many voters are less than enthusiastic about this weekend’s election.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listFortune, a 27-year-old unemployed university graduate who did not want to give his last name, said he does not expect much to come from the polls.“When you see how money is spent during the campaign,…

An accountant who worked closely with Jeffrey Epstein for more than a decade and became an executor of Epstein’s estate after his death is facing questions Wednesday at a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee.Richard Kahn was one of Epstein’s closest associates in his final years, managing his finances, investments and other minutiae, such as renovations on Epstein’s private Caribbean island.Kahn is the first of two executors of Epstein’s estate expected to testify before the committee. The other, lawyer Darren Indyke, is scheduled to sit for questions on March 19. Kahn arrived on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning, and his attorney…

A summer-turned-winter rivalry is helping Australia’s Paralympics golden girl Lauren Parker adjust to competition on the snow at the Milan-Cortina Games.

Bimantoro Kushari Pramono, lecturer in human-computer interaction at Universitas Indonesia, told CNA that systemically, social media platforms are “indeed designed to keep users engaged for as long as possible”.Their business model, he added, is based on the attention economy, meaning algorithms continuously display the most engaging content according to users’ preferences.”The problem is that the state fundamentally does not have access to these algorithms because they are proprietary business assets of platform companies. As a result, the government’s ability to control how these algorithms operate is actually very limited,” said Bimantoro.In such a situation, the most realistic policy option for…

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, US, on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJPMorgan Chase is reducing its exposure to the private credit industry by marking down the value of loans held by the bank as collateral, according to a person with knowledge of the moves.The bank’s giant Wall Street trading division has reduced the value of loans — most of which were made to software firms — sitting within the financing portfolios of private credit clients, said the person, who declined…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The fatal crash of a police helicopter during the pursuit of an active shooter in Arizona last month may have been caused by a mechanical issue, according to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report released Tuesday.Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper-paramedic Hunter Bennett and aviation supervisor pilot Robert Skankey were both killed in the crash on Feb. 4 in Flagstaff.The preliminary NTSB report said there was no evidence that the Bell 407 helicopter, known as Ranger 56, was hit by gunfire. It also stated there were no known issues with the…

Michael Groves thought he had appendicitis. In January 2021, he went to the emergency department with abdominal pains, but after testing, medical staff ruled it out and he went home.A couple of days later, Groves, who lives in Ottawa, saw blood in his stool, so he told his family doctor.Both the pain and bleeding stopped, but she decided to schedule the 49-year-old for a colonoscopy for that April to be on the safe side.“The idea that it could be colon cancer, that never came to mind,” Groves said in an interview.He was put under for the procedure and when he…

Within hours of the United States-Israeli attacks on Iran, US assets in Iraq’s Kurdistan region came under retaliatory attacks from Tehran-backed groups, dragging the country into the conflict that has since expanded across the Middle East and beyond.Since then, US assets located in Iraq have come under multiple attacks from pro-Iran groups and Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC). The US has also carried out attacks against these Iraqi groups.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listDuring a news conference in the capital, Baghdad, on Monday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said, “Iraq has become one of the countries directly…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! After a decades-long battle with Democrats, teacher unions, and even a few Republicans, Texas conservatives are celebrating the successful launch of what is likely to become the largest school-choice program in the country.The Lone Star State’s school choice program, called the Texas Education Freedom Accounts, saw record-setting registrations in its first days. Within one hour of the program opening, it had already garnered 8,000 registrations. By the end of the day, it had notched 42,000 signups and three days in, it was sitting at around 62,000 signups. The program is expected to…