Tag Archives: Politics

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Republican National Committee on Friday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Nevada from counting mail ballots received after Election Day, as the state's law currently perm...

ATLANTA (AP) - A California man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta for sending death threats to District Attorney Fani Willis, who is overseeing the prosecution of former President D...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday set a July primary and a September general election to fill the Newark-based U.S. House seat that opened after Rep. Donald Payne Jr.'s recent...

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. ...