Murray Wood: Saskatchewan is winning the race to the bottom on minimum wage
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South Carolina governor undergoes knee surgery for 2022 tennis injury
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster underwent a minor, elective knee surgery Thursday morning for a tennis injury he sustained two years ago, the governor's office said in a statem...
Apr 04, 2024
Appeals court leaves hold on New Jersey's primary ballot system in place
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal appeals court upheld a lower court judge's ruling putting a temporary halt on New Jersey's primary ballot design, widely seen as helping those with party establishment su...
Apr 04, 2024
New rule strengthening federal job protections could counter Trump promises to remake the government
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's chief human resources agency issued a new rule on Thursday making it harder to fire thousands of federal employees, hoping to head off former President Donald Trump'...
Apr 04, 2024
Kansas lawmakers scuttle a plan for cutting taxes, defying the governor and GOP leaders
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A bipartisan group of rank-and-file lawmakers in Kansas scuttled a plan for cutting taxes Thursday, with Republicans defying GOP leaders and Democrats ignoring a personal appeal fr...
Apr 03, 2024
In swing-state Wisconsin, Democrat hustles to keep key Senate seat against Trump-backed millionaire
NEW GLARUS, Wis. (AP) - Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, whose "go everywhere" 2018 campaign strategy became a model for how to win in battleground Wisconsin, knows her road to victory this year against...
Apr 03, 2024
Indiana House Democratic leader to run for mayor of Fort Wayne following death of Tom Henry
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana Democratic House leader state Rep. Phil GiaQuinta intends to run for Fort Wayne mayor in an upcoming caucus to replace the city's late mayor who died last week, an adviser ...
Apr 03, 2024
Biden faces protest over his support for Israel during White House meeting
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden has faced protests over the conflict in Gaza all over the country, but this week he confronted one inside the White House itself. The occasion was a private meeti...
Apr 03, 2024
Nebraska lawmaker who targeted a colleague during a graphic description of rape is reprimanded
A Nebraska lawmaker who invoked the name of a colleague while reading a graphic account of rape on the floor of the Legislature violated the body's workforce sexual harassment policy, an outside inves...
Apr 03, 2024
Massachusetts council approves pardoning people with misdemeanor cannabis convictions
BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts council on Wednesday approved Gov. Maura Healey's plan to pardon tens of thousands of people convicted of misdemeanor marijuana charges going back decades. The pardons ap...
Apr 03, 2024
Judge rejects Donald Trump's request to delay hush-money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of h...
Apr 03, 2024
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