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Indigenous leaders, special interest groups and other provinces will have their say today in trying to convince the Supreme Court whether or not the national price on pollution is constitutional. The second day of hearings in three appeals over the federal carbon tax will go forward in Ottawa starting this morning. Source

WASHINGTON -- Two Republican-led Senate committees issued a politically charged report Wednesday alleging that the work Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son did in Ukraine constituted a conflict of interest for the Obama administration at a time when Biden was engaged in Ukraine policy as vice-president. Source

MOSCOW, RUSSIA -- A Russian court on Wednesday ordered two months of pre-trial detention for a Siberian cult leader claiming to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ as he faces charges of harming followers. Sergei Torop, a long-haired former traffic policeman, has led a sect called The Church of the Last Testament for almost 30 years since proclaiming himself the Son of God following what he says was a revelation. Source

Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will aim to stop adding to the global warming problem by 2060. Xi's announcement during a speech Tuesday to the UN General Assembly is a significant step for the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. Source

Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects at the Supreme Court to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the women's rights champion, leader of the court's liberal bloc and feminist icon who died last week. Source

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have weighed in on the upcoming U.S. presidential vote, urging people to reject online negativity and hate speech as what Meghan described as "the most important election of our lifetime" approaches. Source

Authorities have arrested three men and one woman in connection with the death of a Black man whose burning body was found in a ditch in rural Iowa. One of men arrested, 31-year-old Steven Vogel, who is white, was already in jail on unrelated charges and is now facing charges of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse, according to the Iowa Department of Public Safety. Source

Paris police have blockaded the area around the Eiffel Tower after a phone-in bomb threat. Police cars and tape surrounded the streets below the tower and the bridge stretching across the Seine River to Trocadero Plaza. Source

The European Union's executive proposed on Wednesday overhauling the bloc's broken migration and asylum rules, seeking to end years of feuds and bitterness over the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing wars and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. Source

LONDON -- The British government on Wednesday defended its strategy for combatting a second wave of COVID-19 cases amid criticism that its new slate of restrictions will not be enough to stop an exponential spread of the coronavirus. Source