Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told senators privately Tuesday he does not yet have the votes to block new witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. That's accordin...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it will re-evaluate the $120,000 annual public funding it gives to the province's biggest women's federation after its president suggested that heterose...

VANCOUVER - A third case of a new coronavirus that's behind deaths in China has been confirmed in Canada by health officials in British Columbia, who say a man in his 40s ...

DES MOINES, Iowa - As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making "adjustments" to the tax and benefit structure of Social Security. He also praised an overhaul of the s...

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Pompeo's battle with National Public Radio and tweeted out more media criticism, one target familiar and the other...

NEW YORK - Attorney General William Barr ordered federal prosecutors across the U.S. to step up their efforts to combat anti-Semitic hate crimes as he met with Jewish leaders in Brooklyn, New York, on...

MADISON, Wis. - Vice-President Mike Pence touted alternatives to a public school education during a visit Tuesday to the state where the private school voucher program began, stopping in battleground ...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says cabinet's decision on a massive new oilsands mine in Alberta will take into consideration what the province is doing to help Canada meet...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A city in northern Saskatchewan is believed to be the first in the province to have banned plastic checkout bags Prince Albert city council passed a bylaw unanimously at a ...

MONTREAL - A Montreal city councillor has withdrawn a motion to have the city adopt an international organization's definition of anti-Semitism. Lionel Perez withdrew the motion endorsi...