Tag Archives: Politics

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - State lawmakers took the first steps Friday toward tightening absentee ballot laws since video last year captured people stuffing reams of ballots into collection boxes in one c...

WASHINGTON (AP) - "Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill dropped by the White House on Friday for a visit with President Joe Biden and walked away with a pair of the president's aviator sunglasses and a greate...

ATLANTA (AP) - Several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential e...

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - Three anti-wind power groups are suing New Jersey to overturn a key environmental approval for a wind energy farm planned off the coast of Long Beach Island. Save Long...

EDMONTON - The umbrella organization for Alberta's municipalities says it hasn't been contacted by the province despite a promise to consult before amending a bill that grants Premier Danielle Smith's...

OTTAWA - Canada and Manitoba are partnering to launch an alert system that would inform the public when an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing, they announced Friday in Winnipeg, ahead of a national...

A New Brunswick mayor is defending her town's new policy that will prohibit Pride banners from being displayed on lampposts in the community - a move a local LGBTQ group says sends a harmful message. ...

SURREY, B.C. - Three Indian nationals have been charged with the murder of B.C. Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in a killing last year that threw Ottawa's relationship with New Delhi into disarray...

REGINA - Premier Scott Moe's Saskatchewan Party has received millions of more dollars in donations compared with rivals ahead of this year's election. Fiscal returns to Elections Saskatchewan show the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is releasing a new book called "No Going Back," but on Friday her office said she would actually be going back to correct some errors - including a fals...