Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — A little more than 23 years ago, Republican President George W. Bush sat at a desk at a high school in Hamilton, Ohio, and signed a law that would vastly expand the role of the Education Department and transform American schooling .

WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Education Department , an agency Republicans have talked about closing for decades.

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Chandra Arya says his nomination to run for the party again in his Ottawa riding has been revoked. The 62-year-old has represented the city's Nepean seat since 2015.

EGG HARBOR CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim implored a standing-room-only town hall on Thursday to get involved in politics as a way to push back against President Donald Trump's agenda.

EDMONTON — The former head of Alberta Health Services says arguments by the province that she was fired for incompetence are not only false but also "vindictive and malicious.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says that in her first face-to-face meeting with the new prime minister she gave him an earful on wildfires and oil sales and warned him national unity hangs in the balance.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is hiking capital spending and introducing new tax rules in a deficit budget aimed at safeguarding the province from tariffs imposed by United States President Donald Trump.

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department , advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to launch a federal election campaign Sunday and send Canadians to the polls as soon as April 28. While sources would not confirm the date of the vote, federal campaigns must run at least 37 days.