Tag Archives: Politics

NEW YORK - Across the nation, LGBTQ candidates achieved milestone victories in Tuesday's election, including the first transgender person elected to a state Senate, and the first openly gay Black men ...

WASHINGTON - The election scrambled seats in the House and Senate but ultimately left Congress much like it began, deeply split as voters resisted big changes despite the heated race at the top of the...

The United States could have avoided the "crippling political paralysis" it is experiencing if it had a central elections administrator like in other democracies, says an American professor who teache...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee has become the first incumbent elected to a third term in Washington state in more than 40 years, beating Republican challenger Loren Culp, Inslee, who brie...

Gov. Jay Inslee's attempt to win a third term and an effort to repeal a statewide sex-education requirement for public school students top Washington state's general election ballot. Here is a summary...

HALIFAX - An ocean conservation organization says Canada's "poorly regulated" seafood supply chain has hampered the fisheries sector and put ocean health in jeopardy. In a report released Thursday, Oc...

OTTAWA - The last time a U.S. presidential election ended in uncertainty, the Canadian government adopted a policy of saying nothing until all the votes were counted and legal challenges resolved. And...

A Quebec woman accused of sending a poisoned letter to United States President Donald Trump will be held in a Washington, D.C.-area jail until her trial.  Pascale Ferrier, who appeared in a Washi...

Rhode Island will now be officially known as ... Rhode Island. The smallest state in the country will no longer have the distinction of also having the longest official name after voters approved a st...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have reached an agreement with opposition parties to fast-track a long-awaited bill to provide businesses with direct access to emergency rent relief. Under the agreement...