Biden, McConnell get COVID-19 boosters, encourage vaccines
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy-eight-year-old Joe Biden and 79-year-old Mitch McConnell got their booster shots Monday, the Democratic president and the Republican Senate leader urging Americans across the political spectrum to get vaccinated or plus up wit...
Indigenous groups in B.C. get mental health funding for residential school survivors
VANCOUVER — Colette Trudeau learned the truth about her family's heritage at age eight, and that's when she began to understand that pretending to be French-Canadian was a way for her great-grandparents to keep their children from being taken away
Sissy Farenthold, reform-minded lawmaker touted for VP, dies
Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, a reform-minded liberal Democrat in the Texas House who was pushed for the party’s 1972 vice-presidential nomination, has died at age 94, her family said Monday.
Biden to name African-born doctor to lead HIV/AIDS response
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that he intends to nominate Dr. John N. Nkengasong to coordinate the U.S. response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic worldwide.
B.C. announces $29 million in funding for women, minorities in the technology sector
VANCOUVER — The B.C. government is teaming up with community partners, spending millions to get more women and minorities into the technology sector. The government, Crown agency Innovate B.C., the Information and Communications Technology Council and...
UK readies soldiers to help ease gas shortages at pumps
LONDON (AP) — The British government put dozens of soldiers on standby Monday to help easy fuel supply problems caused by a shortage of truck drivers, a situation that has spurred panic buying of gasoline across the country.
California to mail every voter a ballot in future elections
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Every registered California voter will get a ballot mailed to them in future elections under a bill signed Monday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Significant amount of money may have been misappropriated: Manitoba Tories
WINNIPEG — Two men have been charged with stealing money from a Progressive Conservative constituency association in Manitoba. Party spokesman Keith Stewart says a significant amount of money may have been misappropriated from the Waverley constituency...
EXPLAINER: What’s behind all the drama in Congress?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The drama and deadlines driving action on Capitol Hill right now can be disorienting. Democrats are trying to pass more than $4 trillion in infrastructure and social programs at the center of President Joe Biden’s agenda —
Ex Idaho lawmaker charged with rape is arrested in Georgia
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho state lawmaker charged with rape earlier this month has been arrested in Georgia.