Tag Archives: Politics

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - The Maine Legislature approved sweeping gun safety legislation including background checks on private gun sales, waiting periods for gun purchases and criminalizing gun sales to ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - President Joe Biden scooped up endorsements from at least 15 members of the Kennedy political family during a campaign stop Thursday as he aims to undermine Donald Trump and margin...

OTTAWA - Foreign aid groups are hailing the federal Liberal government's return to a policy of increasing humanitarian and development spending each year, while asking for a plan to push allies to rev...

MONTREAL - On warm days, Montreal's Lachine Canal can attract thousands of picnickers, cyclists and pedestrians. But since Parks Canada recently removed around 30 trash bins from the paths along the h...

OTTAWA - Parmod Chhabra is deeply invested in the Indian general election that gets underway on Friday, with almost a billion people eligible to vote, but he won't be casting a ballot. Nor will the va...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Politics and race are both factors in a pending court challenge of Louisiana's new congressional maps. How much weight each carries is a major question before three federal judges w...

NEW YORK (AP) - When the first batch of potential jurors was brought in for Donald Trump's criminal trial this week, all the lawyers had to go on to size them up at first were their names and the answ...

Like many Americans, Ron Theusch is getting more worried about climate change. A resident of Alden, Minnesota, Theusch has noticed increasingly dry and mild winters punctuated by short periods of seve...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling for a reversal of a ban on keffiyehs in the legislature. Ford says the decision was made by Speaker Ted Arnott alone and "needlessly divides" the people ...

REGINA - A months-long labour dispute between teachers in Saskatchewan and the province appears closer to being resolved. The provincial government says it has reached a tentative agreement with the S...