Candice Bergen shakes up O’Toole’s parliamentary leadership team, drops Quebec MP
OTTAWA — New Conservative Interim Leader Candice Bergen has done a clean sweep of former leader Erin O'Toole's leadership team in Parliament. Tory MPs were informed Friday of the major shakeup, which follows their decision to force O'Toole from the jo...
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — National security adviser Jake Sullivan; Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas. __
Biden sees US economy as powering past the pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) — That bleak jobs report the White House had been bracing for never arrived Friday. Instead, President Joe Biden got the pleasant surprise that
Ottawa locals hit the streets in a ‘community safety walk’ amid convoy demonstration
OTTAWA — On a frosty Friday morning, a few dozen masked people gathered on the corner of Bank and Somerset Street in downtown Ottawa. The group came together to attend a community safety walk, the first daily event of its kind
Childs gets prosecutors’ ‘wholehearted’ backing for DC court
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bipartisan group of two dozen former South Carolina federal prosecutors are offering their “wholehearted support” for Judge Michelle Childs’ nomination to an appellate court, an elevation that's on hold due to Childs' considerat...
Idaho settles lawsuit on living wills for pregnant people
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho has agreed to change its living will template so that pregnant people will not be kept on life support against their wishes.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams apologizes for using racial slur
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams apologized Friday after a 2019 video surfaced showing him using a racial slur for white people when talking about the New York Police Department.
Judge halts VA governor’s opt-out school mask order, for now
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge on Friday temporarily halted Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's executive order that sought to allow parents to opt out of classroom mask mandates for their children but had been met with resistance from some
Manhattan DA clarifies policies after a month of criticism
NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan's top prosecutor tried Friday to blunt questions about his commitment to trying cases of armed robbery and assaults on police, backing away from some controversial policies he outlined days after taking office last month.
Nunavut senator quits Conservative caucus over support for Ottawa protests
Nunavut's senator says he has left the Conservative caucus over its support for protests in Ottawa against vaccine mandates and COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Dennis Patterson told The Canadian Press on Friday that he quit the party's caucuses in the ...
