Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - Democrats clinched two more years of controlling the House but with a potentially razor-thin majority, a bittersweet finale to last week's elections that has left them divided and with sc...

WILMINGTON, Del. - Vowing "to get right to work," President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday shrugged off President Donald Trump's fierce refusal to accept the election outcome as "inconsequential," even as...

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is brushing aside results of last week's presidential election showing that President Donald Trump lost his bid for a second term. Pompeo told reporters wit...

GENEVA - A senior U.S. government official complained Tuesday that the World Health Organization has not shared enough information about its planned mission to China to investigate the animal origins ...

WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government says it does not support a permit for an oil drilling exploration project in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, although experts fear the United States ad...

VANCOUVER - A former police officer who heads the British Columbia Lottery Corporation's anti-money laundering programs says he was concerned and surprised about the response from police agencies over...

MONTREAL - Students require a neutral environment in which to learn and one where equality between men and women is put first, parents supporting Quebec's secularism law testified in court Tuesday. Na...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the Liberal government must do more to tackle the growing threat of hate groups. The past five years have seen a proliferation of neo-Nazi groups and online cont...

OTTAWA - The current president of the United States has warranted nary a mention from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since Democrat Joe Biden became president-elect on Saturday. While that might be set...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Democrat Cal Cunningham conceded to incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis in North Carolina on Tuesday, saying "the voters have spoken" and it was clear Tillis had won. With Cunni...