Skip to content

Politics

Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use

Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee's long-awaited report on Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations , including sex with an underage girl, that tanked the Florida Republican's bid to lead the Justice Department .
Read more >
Revised airline compensation rules will do little to change status quo: experts

Revised airline compensation rules will do little to change status quo: experts

TORONTO — Proposed changes to Canada's passenger rights charter will perpetuate loopholes that allow airlines to forego compensating travellers whose flights are disrupted, say airline experts.
Read more >
Bill Clinton is hospitalized with a fever but in good spirits, spokesperson says

Bill Clinton is hospitalized with a fever but in good spirits, spokesperson says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever.
Read more >
Latest challenge to North Carolina's power-shifting law focuses on state elections board control

Latest challenge to North Carolina's power-shifting law focuses on state elections board control

RALEIGH, N.C.
Read more >
Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional

Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors. U.S.
Read more >
Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutations

Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutations

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences .
Read more >
Texas GOP Rep. Kay Granger set back by health challenges in last months in Congress, office says

Texas GOP Rep. Kay Granger set back by health challenges in last months in Congress, office says

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Longtime Republican U.S. Rep. Kay Granger of Texas is having "unforeseen health challenges” that have worsened in the final months of her more than two decades in Congress, a statement from her office said Monday.
Read more >
Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions

Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump , an outspoken
Read more >

Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors. U.S.
Read more >
Bill Clinton is hospitalized with a fever but in good spirits, spokesperson says

Bill Clinton is hospitalized with a fever but in good spirits, spokesperson says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington after developing a fever.
Read more >