Tag Archives: Politics

MADRID - A court in Madrid on Thursday struck down a national government order that imposed a partial lockdown in the Spanish capital and its suburbs, siding with regional officials who had resisted s...

HALIFAX - A Halifax man and his spouse testified Thursday in front of a police review board that they believe race played a role in his 2018 arrest and jailing after they'd stopped in park to make a q...

ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court on Thursday adjourned the sentencing procedure for 18 former lawmakers of the extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party and others convicted in the case, a day after the thre...

OTTAWA - The governor of the Bank of Canada is warning that unprecedented economic measures to help families and businesses manage the pandemic may add potholes on the road to recovery.  Tiff Mac...

WASHINGTON - The assistant commandant of the Marine Corps has tested positive for the coronavirus, days after he and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were in a Pentagon meeting with a Coast Guard ...

SALT LAKE CITY - A tech worker pleaded guilty on Wednesday to strangling a Utah college student whose disappearance over a year ago sparked a search that ended with the discovery of her charred remain...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the constitutionality of a key legislative change to the jury-selection process. In a ruling from the bench Wednesday, a majority of the high court said...

ORLANDO, Fla. - A panel of three appellate judges on Wednesday upheld a lower court order allowing the 2020 head count of every U.S. resident to continue through October. But the panel struck down a p...

Alia Youssef and Mohamed El-Sawah have been in a long-distance relationship for the better part of a year, though they live just a 35-minute drive apart. Youssef lives in Windsor, Ont., El-Sawah in a ...

TORONTO - An appeal over wine labelling that threatened to put Middle East politics on trial in Canada's courts has been firmly reined in, with a judge rejecting a dozen groups' bid to weigh in. In hi...