International

Ontario’s first all-girls baseball league a hit with Jewish youngsters

The first girls-only baseball league in Ontario has grown from 42 players in 2016 to over 350 today. (Courtesy Toronto Girls Baseball League) TORONTO — A 2012 study by Indiana University found that until puberty, girls and boys are equally athletic, with no difference in performance between boys and girls under eight, and a minimal […]

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International, Sports & Competitions

President of Rio 2016 Olympics arrested for corruption

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Jewish president of the Rio 2016 Olympic Committee was arrested amid an investigation into a vote-buying scheme to bring the Olympic Games to South America for the first time. Carlos Arthur Nuzman, who also is the president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and an honorary International Olympic Committee member, is

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International, Sports & Competitions

Poland slams Brussels museum over Holocaust exhibition

WARSAW — Poland on Friday slammed the House of European History recently opened in Brussels, accusing ti of presenting a biased view of the Holocaust, denouncing its permanent exhibition for “flagrant misinformation and omissions.” In a letter to European Parliament head Antonio Tajani, Poland’s Culture Minister Piotr Glinski accused the museum of describing Poland, France

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International

Ken Starr Predicts Indictments Over Russia Probe

The former special counsel involved in investigating Watergate has said he believes there will be indictments over the probe into Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. presidential election. Speaking about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Ken Starr told CNN’s Smerconish on Saturday that he would expect there to be indictments in the case, suggesting Trump’s

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International, USA

Leonard Cohen poems to be published in final book

NEW YORK — The final poems of Leonard Cohen, completed days before the legendary songwriter died, will be published in an anthology next year, his estate announced late Friday. Entitled “The Flame,” the volume will include Cohen’s unpublished poems as well as his prose pieces and illustrations and lyrics to his three final albums. Get

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International

Las Vegas shooter’s note contained calculations to maximize kills: CBS

A note discovered in the hotel room of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock featured hand-written calculations on where he needed to aim to increase his accuracy and number of kills, US network CBS reported Saturday. The piece of paper was found by police officers who stormed Paddock’s room after he launched his attack from the

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USA

Turkish President Announces Start of Military Operation in Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the start of Turkish military operation into Syria’s Idlib province. “There is a serious operation in Idlib at the moment, and this will continue,” Erdogan announced in a speech Saturday to his party members. The military offensive is aimed at ending the jihadist control of the Idlib area.

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Middle East

Harvey Weinstein loses key supporters in wake of sex harassment allegations

LOS ANGELES — Harvey Weinstein continued to lose key support over the weekend from people within his close circle of associates and in the larger media industry as the disgraced film executive moved to contain the fallout from his sexual harassment scandal. Two important members of his crisis team quit Saturday, including Los Angeles attorney

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

SPAIN – Why a Mossos officer opposed to Catalan independence wants to quit

Catalonia’s police have an impressive reputation but, according to one officer, the culture within is undeniably pro-independence and increasingly “political”. After 20 years, this officer– who opposes secession– says she wants to resign. After the deadly Barcelona attacks on August 17, all eyes were on the Mossos d’Esquadra (literally “the Squad Lads”), the autonomous police

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International

Danish police find decapitated head of Swedish journalist

Danish police said Saturday divers had recovered the decapitated head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who vanished in August while interviewing a Danish inventor aboard his homemade submarine. In a grisly case worthy of a Nordic noir thriller, Copenhagen police inspector Jens Moller Jensen told reporters divers had found bags containing her

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International

Trump again says he’s open to a health care deal with Democrats; Senate leader balks

WASHINGTON �� With Republicans having failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump confirmed Saturday that he has again asked Democrats to make a deal. They remain wary, at best. “I called Chuck Schumer yesterday to see if the Dems want to do a great HealthCare Bill,” Trump said Saturday in a Twitter

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USA

Hurricane Nate claims lives in Central America, heads for New Orleans

Preparations for Hurricane Nate are being made along America’s south-eastern coast, and there are fears New Orleans, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago, could be in for another battering. Residents are stocking up before the storm. Others in high-risk areas are being told to leave. “It was so painful, I cried.” He survived Katrina.

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USA