Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - The Alberta government's upcoming budget is to allocate $20 million over the next three years to advance plans for a stand-alone children's hospital in the provincial capital. Health Minist...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Trade associations representing hundreds of companies that do business in Virginia have come out swinging against a proposal to expand the state sales tax to cover digital goods, ...

DETROIT (AP) - An Indiana man accused of making a violent threat against a local election official in Michigan in 2020 pleaded guilty to the charge Tuesday. Andrew Nickels of Carmel appeared in federa...

OTTAWA - Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller says he doesn't think Quebec wants to have serious discussions about the costs and social consequences of the influx of asylum seekers. Miller told re...

SEATTLE (AP) - A conservative-backed effort to repeal Washington state's landmark carbon pricing program and tax on the sale of stocks and bonds is putting the budget into limbo, with billions of doll...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri Democrats on Tuesday blocked a blacklisted state lawmaker from running for governor as a Democrat. The Democratic Party on Tuesday refused to accept a filing fee fr...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's Republican-majority Senate greenlit a bill on Tuesday that would make a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group required viewing in publi...

DETROIT (AP) - Michigan's presidential primary was the first time that communities in the state had the ability to count absentee ballots days before the Tuesday election. Absentee voting is a popular...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate the 59th anniversary of a landmark civil rights moment. Harris will speak as part of the annual r...

NEW YORK (AP) - With presidential primaries underway across the U.S., popular chatbots are generating false and misleading information that threatens to disenfranchise voters, according to a report pu...