Category Archives: Politics
EQAO standardized testing paused due to technical issues
TORONTO — The organization that administers standardized tests for Ontario students says it has paused testing while it resolves a technical issue. The Education Quality and Accountability Office says the problem is slowing the system for some users an...
Cuellar, Cisneros runoff in Texas remains too early to call
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas primary runoff between Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and his progressive challenger, Jessica Cisneros, remained too early to call Friday. Cuellar
Federal government sues Alaska over fishing on refuge river
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration is suing Alaska over fishing rights on a river that runs through a national wildlife refuge, saying the state is undermining federal efforts to limit harvests when fish numbers are low to local
Mass shooters exploited gun laws, loopholes before carnage
The suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18, authorities say, when they bought the weapons used in the attacks. They were too young to legally purchase alcohol
Canada raids emergency stockpile to send medical equipment to Ukraine
OTTAWA — Canada has tapped into its own strategic stockpile of emergency medical supplies — stored for a national emergency — to help Ukraine. It has donated over 375,000 items of medical equipment and medicines from Canada's strategic stockpile since...
Police waited 45 minutes to breach classroom in Uvalde, believing kids not at risk
WASHINGTON — Public safety officials admitted to a deadly lapse in judgment while gun-rights advocates were deferential but defiant Friday as a divided, heartbroken nation continued to mourn the lives of 19 fourth-grade students and their two teachers ...
Adam Conover’s ‘G Word’ is funny crash course in government
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adam Conover is certain that laughing and thinking at the same time is both possible and downright synergistic. He tested the approach in
B.C. aims to end ‘period poverty,’ expand access to menstrual products
BURNABY, B.C. — The British Columbia government says it is providing $750,000 to expand access to free menstrual products for people who need them and to help the United Way establish a task force to consider how to end "period
Republicans kept off Michigan ballot turn to the courts
DETROIT (AP) — Business owner Perry Johnson filed a lawsuit Friday to try to get on Michigan's August primary ballot, the first of many likely legal challenges after five Republican candidates for governor were barred because of too few valid
Trump election probe grand jury to hear from Raffensperger
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's secretary of state is expected to appear next week before a special grand jury in an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to meddle in the 2020 election in the state.
