Tag Archives: Politics

The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was both stunning and predictable, the result of a Republican Party that has repeatedly enabled President Donald Trump's destructive behaviour. When Trump was a pr...

PRISTINA, Kosovo - Kosovo's acting president has set Feb. 14 as the date for a new parliamentary election following a court ruling that Parliament's confirmation of the Cabinet in June passed because ...

After years of treating President Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram are silencing his social media accounts for the rest of his presidency. The move, whic...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration and the state's hospital association are at odds over how best to create space for critically ill coronavirus patients at already str...

WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Capitol Police defended his department's response to the storming of the Capitol, saying Thursday that officers "acted valiantly when faced with thousands of individu...

PHOENIX - As Arizona experienced periodic spikes in COVID-19 cases since last spring, Gov. Doug Ducey frequently resisted calls to take strong measures. He has declined to institute a statewide mask m...

WASHINGTON - A sober, shaken Senate returned to its hallowed chamber Wednesday night to slap away a frivolous election challenge, but its secondary purpose seemed to be to rise from the wreckage of a ...

HONG KONG - Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested on a new charge under the national security law on Thursday while an American rights lawyer who was detained in a sweeping ...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on Congress' tally of the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden (all times local): 3:55 a.m. President Donald Trump now says there "will be an orderly transition on January 2...

PARIS - As the world watched American institutions shaken to the core by an angry mob, officials and ordinary citizens wondered: How fragile is democracy, and how much stress could their own political...