Politics

A New Brunswick mayor is defending her town’s new policy that will prohibit Pride banners from being displayed on lampposts in the community — a move a local LGBTQ group says sends a harmful message. During a council meeting Tuesday, Woodstock, N.B.

ATLANTA (AP) — Several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Three anti-wind power groups are suing New Jersey to overturn a key environmental approval for a wind energy farm planned off the coast of Long Beach Island.

CALGARY — Alberta is expanding the screening process for all newborns in the province and supporting more research related to women's health.

REGINA — Premier Scott Moe's Saskatchewan Party has received millions of more dollars in donations compared with rivals ahead of this year’s election. Fiscal returns to Elections Saskatchewan show the governing party raised $3.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance next year under a directive the Biden administration released Friday.

OTTAWA — Canada is providing $65 million in developmental funding and humanitarian relief to Lebanon, International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen said Friday.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs' signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was a stirring occasion for the women working to ensure that the 19th century law remains in the past.

OTTAWA — A francophone man in British Columbia convicted of sexual assault will get a new trial because he was not informed of his right to be tried in French, the Supreme Court ruled Friday.

OTTAWA — After holding public hearings and gathering evidence in private, inquiry commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue has released an interim report into foreign interference in Canada's last two general elections.