EXPLAINER: Where are the COVID-19 tests that Biden promised?
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free to people to use at home. But despite high public demand for tests, it
Biden’s economic challenge: Finding workers and goods
President Joe Biden enters the midterm election year of 2022 determined to address what economists call a “supply” problem — there aren’t enough jobseekers or goods to meet the country’s needs.
Tory legislator Jeff Yurek to resign Elgin-Middlesex-London seat next month
LONDON, Ont. — Former environment minister Jeff Yurek says he will resign his seat in the Ontario legislature next month. Yurek has represented the southwestern Ontario riding of Elgin-Middlesex-London provincially as a Progressive Conservative since 2...
2nd stay sought against Ohio law on aborted fetal remains
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio abortion providers again sued Friday to block a state law requiring that fetal remains from surgical abortions be cremated or buried. Clinics,
Ethiopia grants amnesty to high-profile political detainees
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government on Friday announced an amnesty for some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including opposition figure Jawar Mohammed and senior Tigray party officials, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke...
Treasury broadens COVID relief uses for states, localities
State and local governments will have greater flexibility to spend $350 billion of federal COVID-19 aid under new rules from President Joe Biden's administration. The revised rules
27 out of 130 passengers on Sunwing party flight to Mexico back in Canada: Duclos
OTTAWA — Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says about 27 of the 130 passengers on the Sunwing party flight to Mexico have returned to Canada. Duclos told reporters today the returning travellers were interrogated at the border, tested for COVID-...
Wisconsin GOP leader: ‘Zero chance’ of taking over elections
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A top Republican lawmaker in the presidential battleground state of Wisconsin said Friday that there is “zero chance” the GOP-controlled Legislature will take over the awarding of the state's 10 presidential elector votes in 2024, ...
Bearskin Lake chief says community near ‘breaking point,’ needs urgent federal help
OTTAWA — The chief of Bearskin Lake says the remote northern Ontario community is "almost at a breaking point" after half of its population tested positive for COVID-19, as he renewed his call for immediate federal help. Chief Lefty Kamenawatamin joine...
Anchorage anti-panhandling signs cite unconstitutional law
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The city of Anchorage has spent nearly $9,000 on new anti-panhandling signs, but the law the signs refer to was found unconstitutional nearly a decade ago.
