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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Nebraska lawmaker who targeted a colleague during a graphic description of rape is reprimanded
A Nebraska lawmaker who invoked the name of a colleague while reading a graphic account of rape on the floor of the Legislature violated the body's workforce sexual harassment policy, an outside inves...
Apr 03, 2024
Massachusetts council approves pardoning people with misdemeanor cannabis convictions
BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts council on Wednesday approved Gov. Maura Healey's plan to pardon tens of thousands of people convicted of misdemeanor marijuana charges going back decades. The pardons ap...
Apr 03, 2024
Judge rejects Donald Trump's request to delay hush-money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of h...
Apr 03, 2024
US Sen. Rick Scott spends multiple millions on ads focused on Florida's Hispanic voters
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is spending millions to reach out to Florida's Hispanic voters, a key voting group for his November reelection campaign that has grown to lean more he...
Apr 03, 2024
Trump and the Republican Party say they raised more than $65.6 million in March
NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump and the Republican Party said Wednesday that they raised more than $65.6 million in March as the former president became the presumptive nominee and installed new party le...
Apr 03, 2024
What we know: Trump uses death of Michigan woman to stoke fears over immigration
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - During campaign events in Michigan and Wisconsin on Tuesday, Donald Trump used the recent death of a Grand Rapids woman killed by a man who immigration officials say entered...
Apr 03, 2024
Trump's events aren't drawing big protests this year. Instead, Biden is facing public ire
NEW YORK (AP) - When Donald Trump first ran for the White House eight years ago, protesters filled the streets. His inflammatory rhetoric and often dehumanizing descriptions of immigrants spurred thou...
Apr 03, 2024
As Roe v. Wade fell, teenage girls formed a mock government in 'Girls State'
NEW YORK (AP) - In the summer of 2022, days before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some 500 high school girls gathered in Missouri for a weeklong mock government camp in which they elected t...
Apr 03, 2024
Lawsuit asks judge to disqualify ballot measure that seeks to repeal Alaska's ranked voting system
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Three Alaska voters have filed a lawsuit seeking to disqualify a ballot measure that aims to repeal the state's open primary and ranked vote elections system, citing errors in...
Apr 03, 2024
Months ahead of the presidential election, Nebraska's GOP governor wants a winner-take-all system
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - With only months to go before what is shaping up to be a hotly contested presidential election, Nebraska's Republican governor is calling on state lawmakers to move forward with a "...
Apr 03, 2024
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Sarah Mills: Whose standards do we use when we measure offence?
Sarah Mills says we all have different standards when it comes to what offends us. But when standards don't align, who's...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, Sept. 19
Evan talks with Premier Moe about his trip to China and the current state of canola tariffs, Ray Wilgenbusch about the M...