Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is moving again to increase U.S. assistance to the Palestinians as it fires up a new Mideast policy that is directly opposite of the one pursued by its predecesso...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey summoned China's ambassador after the embassy suggested on Twitter that it could take action against two Turkish politicians who criticized Beijing's treatment of its Muslim Uy...

HELSINKI - Greenland is holding an early parliamentary election Tuesday focused in part on whether the semi-autonomous Danish territory should allow international companies to mine the sparsely popula...

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Tuesday that 24 of the country's soldiers have been killed so far this year in eastern regions where cease-fire violations have escalated i...

SAN DIEGO - The families of refugees and their supporters, including 124 elected officials, sent President Joe Biden a letter Tuesday urging him to make good on his promise to boost refugee admissions...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back aggressively Tuesday against a "60 Minutes" report that suggested he initially made a deal to distribute COVID-19 vaccines in a South Florida coun...

EDMONTON - Parts of Alberta's proposed curriculum for kindergarten and elementary schoolchildren were copied from other sources without credit, said an expert in plagiarism as the Opposition NDP vowed...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signalled an end to more than a year of closures in California, announcing that the nation's most populated state plans to lift most coronavirus restrictio...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor's objection...

OTTAWA - Provincial governments are grappling with how to bring the third wave of COVID-19 under control, as the more virulent variants of the virus begin to dominate and younger, healthier people are...