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West Virginia lawmakers OK bill drawing back one of the country's strictest child vaccination laws
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don't attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirem...
Mar 09, 2024
Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy
The Republican senator who gave the party's response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young woman's sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but the...
Mar 09, 2024
Trump blasts Biden over Laken Riley's death after Biden says he regrets using term 'illegal'
ATLANTA (AP) - President Joe Biden said Saturday that he regretted using the term "illegal" during his State of the Union address to describe the suspected killer of Laken Riley, as his all-but-certai...
Mar 09, 2024
Alcohol excise tax capped at 2 per cent for two more years, Freeland announces
TORONTO - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the federal government will cap the annual alcohol excise tax increase on beer, spirits and wine at two per cent for an additional two years. The alco...
Mar 09, 2024
Biden leans into his age and effectiveness in his first post-Super Tuesday ad in battleground states
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is making no excuses for his age in the first campaign ad of a $30 million buy across battleground states after Super Tuesday, casting himself as more effective t...
Mar 09, 2024
With AI, workplace surveillance has 'skyrocketed'-leaving Canadian laws behind
OTTAWA - Technology that tracks your location at work and the time you're spending in the bathroom. A program that takes random screenshots of your laptop screen. A monitoring system that detects your...
Mar 09, 2024
Officers weren't told of threats to harm police, says RCMP 'Freedom Convoy' report
OTTAWA - An internal RCMP review of the force's response to "Freedom Convoy" protests found that some officers at the scene of an Alberta blockade were unaware of threats to harm police until after th...
Mar 09, 2024
Female representation remains low in US statehouses, particularly Democrats in the South
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Democrat Kayla Young and Republican Patricia Rucker frequently clash on abortion rights and just about everything else in West Virginia's Legislature, but they agree on one th...
Mar 08, 2024
The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it's a time of confusion
TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) - Melissa Blackhair is not eager to spring forward Sunday. "I'm dreading it. I just don't want to see how much we have to adjust," Blackhair said while sitting in her home office...
Mar 08, 2024
How the US military is scrambling to build a floating dock for urgently needed aid to Gaza
WASHINGTON (AP) - Even before President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address the plans for providing aid to Gaza by sea, the Army's 7th Transportation Brigade and other units were scr...
Mar 08, 2024
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Murray Wood: Allowing U.S. booze back into Sask. stores sends mixed message
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