Politics

OTTAWA — Treasury Board President Mona Fortier announced Thursday that federal public servants will soon have to return to in-person office work two to three days per week — a move that a major public union is calling "absolutely disrespectful.

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A judge on Thursday handed down the longest prison terms so far in the plot to kidnap Michigan's governor, sentencing three men who forged an early alliance with a leader of the scheme before the FBI broke it up in 2020.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The latest proposal to give Ohio’s governor more power overseeing K-12 education cleared the state Senate with a ban on transgender student-athletes in girls sports — but hit a roadblock hours later when the legislation fell sev

OTTAWA — MPs studying the government's proposed definition of an assault-style firearm will resume talks next month about whether to hear from additional witnesses amid concerns the change would ban some common hunting rifles.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday he will visit sub-Saharan Africa next year, the first U.S. president to travel there in a decade. He announced the trip — still unscheduled — as he wrapped up a U.S.

OTTAWA — Canada's climate adaptation strategy is underfunded and does not clearly align its goals with the country's top climate change risks, a new report says.

THE BACKGROUND: After beginning 2022 by hosting a Winter Olympics inside a COVID bubble , China faced a tough year.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker will be the next president of the NCAA, stepping in to lead an organization with diminished power amid sweeping change across college sports.

BOSTON (AP) — Not every Harvard basketball player can end up an NBA phenomenon like Jeremy Lin. Some of them have to settle for other careers, like being the governor of Massachusetts — or the president of the NCAA.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov.