Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — As senators prepare to consider President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet , they will likely be doing so without a well-established staple of the confirmation process: an FBI background check.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has tapped former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker as U.S.

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests Canadians are supportive of government intervention in the labour disputes at ports and at Canada Post.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump.

HALIFAX — Previous Liberal and NDP governments are to blame for Nova Scotia's housing crisis, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston said Wednesday on the campaign trail, boasting that his party's plan to build more homes is bearing fruit.

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a common trait that President-elect Donald Trump is clearly prizing as he selects those to serve in his new administration: experience on television. Trump loves that "central casting" look, as he likes to call it.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur won another term in the U.S. House on Wednesday, after defeating a Republican state lawmaker endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump. Her victory in northwest Ohio over fourth-term state Rep.

Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Ohio on Wednesday. Kaptur, who was first sworn in to the House in 1983, is the longest-serving woman in congressional history.

Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani asked a judge Wednesday to penalize him even further, saying he continues to falsely accuse them of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidenti

VANCOUVER — The union representing port supervisors in British Columbia is formally challenging the legal and constitutional authority of the federal labour minister to order them back to work.