Another day of testimony has wrapped in former President Trump’s hush money trial on Tuesday.
The day saw a host of witnesses take the stand, including an ex-banker for Michael Cohen, a C-SPAN archives director and a lawyer for two women central to the case’s allegation.
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House Republicans on Thursday passed their version of a “born-alive” abortion bill one day after Democrats blocked the Senate version from advancing. The bill requires health care practitioners to provide the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” for a child born alive during an attempted abortion as they would during normal childbirth. Republicans…
OTTAWA — Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney has secured the endorsements of four more current and former cabinet ministers.
Liberal leadership contender Karina Gould said Thursday the government she was a part of for years mishandled the affordability crisis and did not effectively respond to Canadians who were crying out for relief at a time of high inflation.While criticizing the government's approach to the cost of living, Gould also repudiated some of the government's other major policies, namely the capital gains tax hike and upcoming increases to the carbon tax."We have to be honest about the fact that Canadian
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says a government led by him would cut the number of federal public servants — but he doesn't mind if they work from home.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Republicans are pushing back against suggestions by President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans that federal disaster aid for victims of wildfires that ravaged Southern California should come with strings attached, possibly jeopardizing the president's policy agenda in a deeply divided Congress at the outset of his second term.
Donald Trump’s anti-wind orders dealt the final blow, but Joe Biden’s permitting reform failure started the death spiral.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) had an altercation with a reporter Wednesday noting Americans are “sick and f‑‑‑ing tired” of talking about Jan. 6, 2021. Punchbowl News reporter Melanie Zanona appeared to ask Greene a question about the invitation extended by her conservative colleague Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) to give guided tours of Congress to…
Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan joined the list of Liberal MPs who aren't seeking re-election on Wednesday.In an announcement on social media, the former army veteran said he won't re-offer in his riding of Vancouver South and thanked the community for raising him and teaching him the "importance of service and pursuing one's goals with commitment and integrity."While Sajjan said he's leaving office "with a sense of confidence in the future," the minister also called for a return t
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said he will establish a new select subcommittee that will probe the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — and likely dig into the now-defunct Jan. 6 select committee that was led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and then-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) will chair the upcoming…
One of President Donald Trump’s first actions as he returned to the Oval Office on Monday was signing an executive order aimed at “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship” of US citizens.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Jamaica have killed a top gang leader whose death unleashed a violent backlash near the capital of Kingston Thursday.
The largest Indigenous tribe east of the Mississippi River is on its way to federal recognition and full tribal benefits after President Donald Trump's order Thursday.
The woman is facing charges including criminal threats, cruelty to an animal, threatening a public official, and possession of a short-barrel shotgun.
STORY: A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from implementing an executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional."The judge issued a temporary restraining order at the urging of four Democratic-led states including Washington where Nick Brown is the attorney general.“This is about people who the President of the United States was trying to deny their lawful right to be citizens. And babies are being born today, tomorrow, every day, all across this country. And so we had to act now to provide back to the status quo. Back to what has been the law of the land for generations. That you are an American citizen if you were born on American soil, period. Nothing that the president can do will change that.”Trump in his executive order directed U.S. agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States if neither their mother nor father is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.The judge said this viewpoint “boggles the mind.”The states argued that Trump's order violated the right enshrined in the citizenship clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment that provides that anyone born in the United States is a citizen.More than 150,000 newborn children would be denied citizenship annually if Trump's order is allowed to stand, according to the Democratic-led states.Several other lawsuits are also pending nationwide by civil rights groups and Democratic attorneys general from 22 states, who call Trump's order a flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution.Thirty-six of Trump's Republican allies in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday separately introduced legislation to restrict automatic citizenship to only children born to citizens or lawful permanent residents.
Seven San Antonio Police Department officers were shot while responding to a call Wednesday night and the suspect was found dead after an hourslong standoff, officials said.
A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has dismissed an attempt by a fisherman and researcher to get a judicial review of the provincial government's emergency order to maintain Lake Pisiquid in Windsor, N.S.Darren Porter launched the court action in June 2023 after John Lohr, then the minister responsible for emergency management, ordered the gates to the aboiteau at the Avon River causeway closed.Closing the gates, which allow tidal waters to flow in and out of the Avon River, meant Lake Pisiquid w
The federal government has told most provinces and territories they must cut their allotted spaces for economic immigration programs by half this year, triggering concerns about drastic impacts on labour and the economy.The provincial nominee programs (PNPs) are used by all provinces and territories except Quebec and Nunavut. All 11 jurisdictions with PNP slots have been told they will receive a 50 per cent reduction for 2025."We are quite reliant on that program. Our employers are quite reliant
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday rejected the idea of combining California wildfire aid with a debt ceiling hike, saying Democrats would oppose such a package if Republicans bring it to the floor. “It’s a nonstarter,” Jeffries said during a press briefing in the Capitol. The pushback could complicate the plans of Republican…
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a court challenge against Quebec's controversial secularism law, known as Bill 21. The request for leave to appeal was granted on Thursday morning without any explanation, as is the court's custom.Among other things, Bill 21 prohibits certain public workers in positions of authority, such as judges, police officers, prison guards and teachers, from wearing religious symbols while performing their duties.Simon Jolin-Barrette, Quebec's justice ministe
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued new guidance Wednesday clarifying limits to the disbursement of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds ordered by President Trump on Monday. In one of a flurry of Inauguration Day executive orders, Trump directed federal agencies to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds” from both the IRA…
