Top GOP senator: Easing police protections hurts departments
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top Republican on Tuesday linked Democrats’ efforts to make it easier to sue police officers to problems many law enforcement agencies are having recruiting and retaining personnel, drawing a hard line on the thorniest di...
Up to 500 health-care workers will be allowed to attend NHL playoffs in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets will be playing in front of live fans this week for the first time in more than a year. The National Hockey League club announced on social media Tuesday that it will host a small number
Report scrutinizes FCC response in Puerto Rico after Maria
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. report released Tuesday found that abstract emergency response guidelines for the Federal Communications Commission could have caused confusion and delays after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Vir...
US formally ends policy for asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday formally ended a Trump-era immigration policy that forced asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.
Survivor of B.C. residential school breaking silence and calling for action
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — News of the remains of 215 children being discovered at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia jolted Clayton Peters, whose seven years of torment there have been mostly encased in silence around fears
California task force launches study of slave reparations
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A first-in-the-nation task force in California to study and recommend reparations for African Americans held its inaugural meeting Tuesday, launching a two-year process to address the harms of slavery and systemic racism despite th...
URI weighs revoking honorary degree from ex-Trump adviser
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The University of Rhode Island is weighing whether to revoke an honorary degree bestowed years ago to Michael Flynn, a university alumnus who briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser.
Pelosi rules out having Biden create Jan. 6 commission
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ruling out a presidential commission to study the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, telling House Democrats on Tuesday that having President Joe Biden appoint a panel is unworkable even after the
US lawmakers want Ma’Khia Bryant foster care journey probed
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Three Democratic members of Congress are asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the foster care experience of Ma'Khia Bryant that preceded the 16-year-old's fatal police shooting in Ohio.
O’Toole releases Pride video as handful of MPs oppose bill to ban conversion therapy
OTTAWA — A video promoting June as Pride month coupled with a concerted push to end the gay "blood ban" is what the Conservative Party of Canada looks like under Erin O'Toole as he works to prove once and for