Murray Wood: Drop in reading rates a sad trend to see
New data suggests people are spending less time reading for pleasure. Murray Wood says it's sad that people are drawn to...
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Charges against Trump's 2020 'fake electors' are expected to deter a repeat this year
An Arizona grand jury's indictment of 18 people who either posed as or helped organize a slate of electors falsely claiming that former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 could help shape th...
Apr 25, 2024
Trump's lawyers try to discredit testimony of prosecution's first witness in hush money trial
NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump's defense team attacked the credibility of prosecutors' first witness in his hush money case on Friday, seeking to discredit testimony detailing a scheme to bury negative ...
Apr 25, 2024
USC's move to cancel commencement amid protests draws criticism from students, alumni
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The University of Southern California's decision Thursday to cancel its main graduation ceremony, a move that came 10 days after administrators said the student valedictorian who ha...
Apr 25, 2024
17 states challenge federal rules entitling workers to accommodations for abortion
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Republican attorneys general from 17 states filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions, callin...
Apr 25, 2024
Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally by comparing it to campus protests over Gaza war
WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump on Thursday claimed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was "nothing" compared to ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests, the latest instance...
Apr 25, 2024
Recreational marijuana backers can gather signatures for North Dakota ballot initiative
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A North Dakota ballot initiative group can gather signatures to put a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana to a statewide vote in the fall, the state's top election officia...
Apr 25, 2024
Debates to play a major role in Pennsylvania's 2024 US Senate election
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania on Thursday proposed a series of debates with his Republican challenger David McCormick leading up to the November general electio...
Apr 25, 2024
Tennessee lawmakers OK bill penalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's GOP-controlled Statehouse on Thursday gave their final approval to legislation penalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental cons...
Apr 25, 2024
These people were charged with interfering in the 2020 election. Some are still in politics today
ATLANTA (AP) - As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud. At ...
Apr 25, 2024
First with Trump, now with Kamala Harris: Kim Kardashian is advocating for criminal justice reform
WASHINGTON (AP) - Kim Kardashian marshaled her celebrity in one administration to spotlight criminal justice reform - and she's doing it again in the next. The reality TV star and entrepreneur joined ...
Apr 25, 2024
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Sarah Mills: Whose standards do we use when we measure offence?
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8:30 - China has imposed a 76 per cent tariff on Canadian canola seed on top of the 100% duties already hitting canola o...