Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - Demonstrations over President Donald Trump's loss at the polls have resulted in charges against nearly two dozen people in Washington, including a person accused of setting off a commerci...

Former Grand Chief Magella (Max) Gros-Louis, who championed Indigenous rights for more than 30 years as leader of the Huron-Wendat First Nation, has died at the age of 89. Grand Chief Remy Vincent con...

OTTAWA - When Donald Trump leaves the White House, a regular feature of the last four years of Canadian politics is going to change: Conservatives will no longer constantly have to distance themselves...

TORONTO - The rising tide of COVID-19 infections across much of Canada threatens to swamp a hospital system already under strain, the country's top doctor warned Saturday amid case numbers that contin...

WASHINGTON - Five American soldiers killed in a helicopter crash this week while on a peacekeeping mission in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula included one who left behind a wife pregnant with their daughter. ...

BERLIN - Austria announced Saturday that it is tightening its partial lockdown, including by closing non-essential stores and shifting schools to online teaching, amid galloping coronavirus infection ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tens of thousands of the 72 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump showed up on his doorstep Saturday, urging on the president in his quixotic bid to subvert the results of la...

WASHINGTON - Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the depa...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The leader of Ethiopia's rebellious Tigray region has confirmed firing missiles at neighbouring Eritrea's capital and is threatening more, marking a huge escalation as the deadly figh...