Politics

Washington, DC, faces budget crisis after House leaves $1.1 billion hole in city coffers

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the House of Representatives adjourned for a two-week recess Thursday, it left Washington, D.C., elected officials scrambling to fill a $1.

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Tufts student from Turkey details arrest, crowded detention conditions in new court filing

A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey is demanding her release after she was detained by immigration officials near her Massachusetts home, detailing how she was scared when the men grabbed her phone and feared she would be killed.

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Picture of Trump after the assassination attempt displaces Obama portrait at the White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday hung a painting of President Donald Trump depicting a moment after an assassination attempt against him last summer — bumping the official portrait of one of his predecessors, Barack Obama, to a location ne

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The Latest: Trump administration offers no details on mistakenly deported man after court ruling

A federal judge on Friday lambasted a government lawyer who couldn’t explain what, if anything, President Donald Trump’s administration has done to arrange for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison

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Justice Department tasked with enforcing Trump's transgender sports ban in Maine

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine officials said Friday the state will not comply with a ban on transgender athletes in high school sports in the wake of a Trump administration finding that the state violated antidiscrimination laws by allowing the studen

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In response to U.S. tariffs, New Brunswick looking to sell government-owned Teslas

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government says it plans to sell the 11 Teslas it owns, in response to United States tariffs and the prominent role that the carmaker's CEO plays in the Donald Trump administration.

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Massachusetts lawmaker charged with defrauding a trade group and trying to cover it up

BOSTON (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker in Massachusetts was arrested and charged Friday with defrauding a trade association of tens of thousands of dollars and then falsifying records to cover up the scheme.

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Saskatchewan MLA removed from committees after calling Jagmeet Singh a terrorist

REGINA — A rookie Saskatchewan legislature member was stripped Friday of some of her responsibilities after calling federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh a terrorist.

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Ohio League of Women Voters wants pioneering female justice's portrait brought up from the basement

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio League of Women Voters urged the state's high court on Friday to relocate a portrait of the state's first female chief justice from a new exhibit to be located in the courthouse basement back to the building's main hall

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Alberta Law Foundation board members quit over bill giving minister power on grants

EDMONTON — Two of the Alberta Law Foundation's provincially appointed board members have resigned in protest over proposed legislation that they say amounts to political interference in how vulnerable people access the justice system.

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