Tag Archives: Politics

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York will allow voters to request absentee ballots for the general election because of an outbreak - like coronavirus - under a new state law signed Thursday. New Yorkers can now vo...

WINNIPEG - A human rights adjudicator has ruled that the Manitoba government discriminated against a disabled Indigenous boy by not providing adequate health care. The province has been orde...

NEW YORK - A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for Manhattan's top prosecutor to get President Donald Trump's tax returns, rejecting a last-ditch attempt by his lawyers to block a subpoena iss...

LANSING, Mich. - A $600 million deal between the state of Michigan and Flint residents who were harmed by lead-tainted water is a step toward making amends for a disaster that upended life in the poor...

WHITEHORSE - Students in many parts of Yukon are heading back to class for the first day of the new school year. All kindergarten to Grade 12 students in Whitehorse are in class, while the R...

NEW YORK - Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme "We Build The Wall." The charges were con...

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was pulled from a luxury yacht and arrested Thursday on allegations that he and three associates ripped off donors trying to ...

FREDERICTON - The contrast in policy approaches between Progressive Conservatives and Liberals on the New Brunswick campaign trail was on full display Thursday. During a campaign stop on a farm i...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is taking steps toward promised changes to federal drug policy, while looking at how to reduce opioid-related deaths during the pandemic. The federal government launche...

MOSCOW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, one of Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, lay in a coma Friday at a Siberian hospital, the victim of what his allies said appeared to be a poisoning ...