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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday that Jewish American voters will be partly to blame if he loses the Nov. 5 election to Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee. During a speech at the Israeli American Council national summit in Washington DC, the former president complained that he was lagging behind Harris when it came to American Jews. …

California officials said winds and temperatures were expected to increase slightly due to a drop in humidity, they said in an update Monday morning, as the Park Fire burned an area larger than the city of Los Angeles. Nearly 4,000 firefighters are battling the blaze, aided by numerous helicopters and firefighting aircraft. Reinforcements are expected to provide much-needed respite for …

French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla will be allowed to wear a cap covering her hair during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, an agreement reached with the French Olympic Committee after Sylla said she had been disqualified because of her hijab. During the opening ceremony on Friday, which will include a parade of athletes on the River Seine, the French …

Indigenous peoples continue to struggle to access complete and up-to-date data on Native American residential schools, according to a new report from the Senate Standing Committee on Indigenous Peoples. The report, Missing documents, missing childrenwas released Thursday and contains 11 recommendations to improve access to boarding school records. One of the recommendations is that the Canadian government should force Catholic …

Officials with Indigenous Services Canada on Thursday told organizations and community leaders responsible for the search for missing children and unmarked burials at boarding school sites that their funding has been capped at $500,000 per year. That ceiling is significantly lower than previous operating budgets and much lower than what organizations estimate is needed to continue work. David Monias, Chief …

WARNING: This story contains details about boarding school experiences. A First Nation community in northern Manitoba reports that ground-penetrating radar has found 150 anomalies at the site of a former boarding school, including what appears to be 59 unmarked graves in a nearby cemetery. The Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief also says 37 anomalies were found off-site, more than a kilometre …

WARNING: This story contains details of residential school experiences. Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc and the Vancouver and Kamloops branches of the Catholic Church have released details of a signed document agreeing to a historical record recognizing the damage caused by residential schools and the role the Catholic Church played. On Easter Sunday, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, the Diocese of …