Tag Archives: Politics

The global consulting firm McKinsey & Company agreed to pay nearly $600 million for its role in advising businesses on how to sell more prescription opioid painkillers amid a nationwide overdose c...

WASHINGTON - A fiercely divided House tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees Thursday, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she'd earned by spreading hateful and violent...

MOSCOW - In a note from jail, opposition leader Alexei Navalny urged Russians Thursday to overcome their fear and "free" the country from a "bunch of thieves," while the Kremlin cast the arrests of th...

NEW YORK - Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild after the union threatened to expel him for his role in the Capitol riot in January. In a letter dated Thursday and addressed to SAG-A...

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued a new statewide mask order on Thursday, an hour after the Republican-controlled Legislature voted to repeal his previous mandate saying he didn't have ...

TRENTON, N.J. - A female inmate was punched 28 times and pepper-sprayed when guards attacked her and at least five other women, New Jersey officials said Thursday, bringing misconduct charges against ...

OTTAWA - The union representing front-line RCMP officers is asking federal and provincial officials to consider Mounties for priority access to COVID-19 vaccination. The National Police Federation say...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's education minister said safety protocols must evolve alongside the COVID-19 pandemic as she announced an expansion of mask requirements in schools. Jennifer Whiteside sai...

BILLINGS, Mont. - The Biden administration said Thursday it was delaying a rule finalized in former President Donald Trump's last days in office that would have drastically weakened the government's p...

OTTAWA - Canada's pay equity commissioner says the first raises under soon-to-be-enacted legislation should happen by 2024. Commissioner Karen Jensen also said that it may take several more years befo...