Murray Wood: Saskatchewan is winning the race to the bottom on minimum wage
An increase is coming for Saskatchewan's minimum-wage earners this fall, but Murray Wood says it will ensure they contin...
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Mississippi Senate passes trimmed Medicaid expansion and sends bill back to the House
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi lawmakers will try to negotiate on expanding Medicaid in one of the poorest states in the U.S. after the Senate voted Thursday for a vastly different plan than one pr...
Mar 28, 2024
Tennessee governor signs bill to undo Memphis traffic stop reforms after Tyre Nichols death
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed off on the repeal of police traffic stop reforms made in Memphis after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in January 2023,...
Mar 28, 2024
Youngkin vetoes Virginia bills mandating minimum wage increase, establishing marijuana retail sales
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to b...
Mar 28, 2024
Orlando city commissioner charged with spending 96-year-old woman's money on a home, personal items
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - An Orlando city commissioner was arrested Thursday on charges of elderly exploitation, identity fraud and mortgage fraud following accusations that she had spent a constituent's m...
Mar 28, 2024
Facebook News tab will soon be unavailable as Meta scales back news and political content
Meta will be sunsetting Facebook News in early April for users in the U.S. and Australia as the platform further deemphasizes news and politics. The feature was shut down in the U.K., France and Germa...
Mar 28, 2024
GOP-backed bill proposing harsher sentences to combat crime sent to Kentucky's governor
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Republican lawmakers in Kentucky wrapped up work Thursday on a sweeping criminal justice bill that would deliver harsher sentences to combat crime. Opponents making a last stand ...
Mar 28, 2024
House Republicans invite President Biden to testify at public hearing as impeachment inquiry stalls
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans on Thursday invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver on their stalled monthslong impeachment inqu...
Mar 28, 2024
Sen. Bob Menendez decides not to delay May trial with appeal of judge's ruling
NEW YORK (AP) - New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez will not appeal a judge's ruling on Constitutional grounds that would have delayed his May trial, his lawyers said Thursday. The Democrat's lawyers notifie...
Mar 28, 2024
Trump backers try again to recall Wisconsin GOP Assembly speaker as first effort stalls
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Backers of former President Donald Trump are launching a second effort to recall Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from office after the first attempt appears to hav...
Mar 28, 2024
South Carolina to hold 2024 congressional elections with map previously ruled unconstitutional
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A federal court on Thursday ruled that this year's congressional elections in South Carolina will be held under a map that it had already deemed unconstitutional and discriminato...
Mar 28, 2024
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