United States Air Force Brigadier Gen. Pat Ryder confirmed on Friday that U.S. President Joe Biden ordered fighter aircraft assigned to United States Northern Command (NORCOM) to engage and destroy a "high-altitude airborne object" in United States airspace over Alaska on Friday afternoon.
Ryder said North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected the object on ground radar on Feb. 9. They then identified the object using fighter aircraft. Flying at 40,000 feet, it represented a risk to civilian passenger flights, according to United States Department of Defense (DoD) officials.
U.S. President Joe Biden gave the order to shoot down the object “out of an abundance of caution” according to the White House.
An F-22 tactical fighter aircraft out of Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Alaska shot down the "object" with an AIM 9X missile, the Pentagon confirmed.
The incident came a week after U.S. and Canadian officials first confirmed a Chinese surveillance balloon had flown over Canada and across the continental U.S. over the course of several days. The balloon was ultimately shot down over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.
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,global news,Jagmeet Singh,NDP,Singh,Conservatives,Big Techs,Tech Billionaires,Elon Musk,Mark Zuckerberg,Protect Kids Online,Protectkidsonline,Online Harm Act,Online safety,Digital Safety,vHYV6PgpYTM,, Politics,Society, channel_UChLtXXpo4Ge1ReTEboVvTDg, video_vHYV6PgpYTM,In a statement, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh took a stand against the Conservative approach to online safety, highlighting what he called the failure of tech giants like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to protect children on the internet. Singh questioned, "Why would conservatives protect Elon Musk rather than children being exploited online?" #jagmeetsingh #OnlineSafety #digitalsafety #OnlineHarmAct
,global news,Justin Trudeau,Pierre Poilievre,Parliament,Liberals,Conservatives,Conservative Caucus meeting,Liberal caucus meeting,Canadian politics,politics,inflation,trudeau,poilievre,poilievre trudeau,trudeau poilievre,conservatives,liberals,conservatives liberals,canada elections,canada politics,canada government,conservatives liberals ads,canada election ads,canada democracy,canadian election,canada election campaign,canada voters,trudeau poilievre ads,yKU_avB6_CA,, Politics,Society, channel_UChLtXXpo4Ge1ReTEboVvTDg, video_yKU_avB6_CA,While Canada is not in the middle of a federal election campaign, the Conservatives and Liberals already have ad campaigns to try to influence voters.
For now, the two parties are taking very different approaches in their advertising.
David Akin explains how the Tories are following the same strategy as the Liberals' 2015 ad campaign and whom the Liberals are trying to compare Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to.
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,1,A fuel tanker crashed and sparked a large fire involving at least one other vehicle on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Montgomery County on Saturday. Preliminary reports say multiple people were injured in the crash.
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,1,During remarks in Tehran on Monday, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani blamed the U.S. for the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed, Gaza-situated Hamas militants.
"The American government must be held accountable for the crimes of the Zionist regime, and it is the American government that is now supporting the Zionist regime against the oppressed nation of Palestine,” Kanaani said.
The accusation came after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a heavier military presence in the Middle East on Sunday, in wake of the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7. According to Blinken, the U.S. aircraft carriers being sent to the Mediterranean sea are intended to be a deterrence as opposed to a provocation of war.
Asked if Tehran would engage if the U.S. weighed in, Kanaani said that "Iran considers that the U.S. is already militarily involved in the conflict between Israel and Palestinians."
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,1,Toronto's York University is facing calls to decertify a major student union over a public statement that called Hamas’ attacks in Israel “justified and necessary.”
The York Federation of Students, which represents 55,000 undergraduate students at York University, issued a “statement of solidarity with Palestine” on Thursday, in which the union argued the actions of Hamas represented a “strong act of resistance.”
The statement, which was also signed by the York University Graduate Students Association, was met with condemnation from Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, who called the comments “shocking.”
Global's Colin D'Mello reports.
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,1,United States Air Force Brigadier Gen. Pat Ryder confirmed on Friday that U.S. President Joe Biden ordered fighter aircraft assigned to United States Northern Command (NORCOM) to engage and destroy a "high-altitude airborne object" in United States airspace over Alaska on Friday afternoon.
Ryder said North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected the object on ground radar on Feb. 9. They then identified the object using fighter aircraft. Flying at 40,000 feet, it represented a risk to civilian passenger flights, according to United States Department of Defense (DoD) officials.
U.S. President Joe Biden gave the order to shoot down the object “out of an abundance of caution” according to the White House.
An F-22 tactical fighter aircraft out of Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Alaska shot down the "object" with an AIM 9X missile, the Pentagon confirmed.
The incident came a week after U.S. and Canadian officials first confirmed a Chinese surveillance balloon had flown over Canada and across the continental U.S. over the course of several days. The balloon was ultimately shot down over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.
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