Tag Archives: Politics

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia lawmakers passed legislation Friday that would legalize skill games, the slots-like betting machines that proliferated in businesses around the state before an on-again, ...

Nebraska's top election official has ruled that voters will get to decide this year whether to repeal a law that gives taxpayer money for private school scholarships. But both Nebraska Secretary of St...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is extending a program that funds 400 local reporting jobs across the country. Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge says Ottawa will spend another $58.8 million to continu...

SaskEnergy minister Dustin Duncan says he's ready for whatever comes next. On Thursday, Duncan announced that Saskatchewan will not remit the carbon tax on natural gas used for home heating to Ottawa....

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Friday signed a short-term spending measure that keeps one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22 - officially stav...

OTTAWA - Ask Brian Mulroney's chief political rival about the former prime minister's greatest success, and he will say the answer runs through Quebec. Jean Chrtien cites Mulroney's 1984 breakthrough,...

NEW YORK (AP) - A New Jersey businessman pleaded guilty Friday to trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, agreeing to a deal with prosecutors that calls for him to testify in the corruption case again...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Less than a week after staging rival events on the banks of the Rio Grande River along the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face voters ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland signed a contract this week to create a text-message alert system for the grounds of the Capitol, lawmakers said Friday, a day after the historic building was put on loc...

HALIFAX - The last of 26 charges laid after a 2021 Halifax housing protest has ended with an acquittal, capping a two-and-a-half-year legal saga during which just a handful of prosecutions proceeded. ...