Category Archives: Politics
Arizona Coyotes seek gambling law change for ASU arena
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes want a new state law that legalizes sports betting changed to allow them to keep running their mobile sports gambling operation when they move from Glendale to Arizona State University's hockey arena next season.
Budget: New Titans stadium, grocery tax pause, vote machines
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers peppered Gov. Bill Lee's finance team with questions Tuesday about its proposal to authorize $500 million in bonds to help the Tennessee Titans build a new enclosed stadium. Some said the request caugh...
Tensions flare in Alaska House over masking, floor sessions
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Tensions are flaring in the Alaska House over masking rules imposed during a COVID-19 outbreak, with floor sessions cut short or canceled and minority Republicans decrying what they called delay tactics with the chamber yet to
Maryland lawmakers pass bill to expand access to abortion
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly passed a bill Tuesday that would expand access to abortion by ending a restriction that only physicians provide them and requiring most insurance plans to cover abortion care without cost.
SD House committee points to ‘in office’ clause to clear AG
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Republicans on a South Dakota House committee want to clear the state's attorney general of impeachment charges for his actions surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash, arguing that anything wrong he did was not part of
Threats to Congress get man 1 year, 3 months in prison
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of making threatening phone calls to three members of Congress was sentenced Tuesday to a year and three months in federal prison.
Uncertainty mounts as Missouri stalls on new US House seats
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s candidacy filing period for Congress closed Tuesday without new voting districts in place, as the state’s Republican-led Legislature remained bogged down by disagreements.
Conservatives support 2030 emissions-reduction target set by Harper, not Trudeau
OTTAWA — Canada's Conservatives continue to reject the target the Liberal government set for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, as the party searches for a new leader who will decide its approach to tackle climate change. On Tuesday, the feder...
EXPLAINER: What’s behind the new federal anti-lynching law?
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law the first bill that specifies lynching as a federal hate crime. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which Congress passed on March 7, enables the prosecution of crimes as lynchings if they
Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions and targets, by the numbers
OTTAWA — 730 million tonnes: The calculated annual emissions for Canada in 2019 from the yearly National Inventory Report. 739 million tonnes: The calculated emissions for Canada in 2005. 407 million to 443 million tonnes: 2030 target for emissions to ...
