Politics

Banishing a reporter: Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story

President Donald Trump on Monday followed up his lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over last week's Jeffrey Epstein story by banishing one of the newspaper's reporters from Air Force One for an upcoming Scotland trip.

Jul 21, 2025 4:41 PM Read more >

Budget office says Trump's tax law will add $3.4 trillion to deficits, leave 10 million uninsured

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's tax and spending law will add $3.

Jul 21, 2025 4:24 PM Read more >

B.C. nurse files human rights complaints against college, employer

VANCOUVER — The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms says a nurse who was sanctioned by the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives has filed two human rights complaints with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.

Jul 21, 2025 4:10 PM Read more >

Harvard seeks billions in funding restored at a pivotal hearing in its standoff with Trump

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University appeared in federal court Monday in a pivotal case in its battle with the Trump administration , as the storied institution argued the government illegally cut $2.6 billion in federal funding.

Jul 21, 2025 3:29 PM Read more >

Texas Republicans aim to redraw House districts at Trump's urging, but there's a risk

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat who represents a slice of the Rio Grande Valley along the border with Mexico, won his last congressional election by just over 5,000 votes.

Jul 21, 2025 3:21 PM Read more >

Environmentalists' lawsuit to halt 'Alligator Alcatraz' filed in wrong court, Florida official says

Florida's top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in

Jul 21, 2025 2:44 PM Read more >

Trump 'caught off guard' by recent Israeli strikes, White House says

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was “caught off guard” by the recent Israeli strikes in Syria and on a Catholic church in Gaza, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday.

Jul 21, 2025 2:24 PM Read more >

Nova Scotia premier misses Halifax Pride parade for second consecutive year

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative premier was absent from Halifax's Pride parade over the weekend, marking the second year in a row he missed the largest LGBTQ+ celebration in Atlantic Canada.

Jul 21, 2025 1:57 PM Read more >

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers ask judge to delay release from jail over deportation fears

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have asked a federal judge in Tennessee to delay releasing him from jail in order to prevent the Trump administration from trying to swiftly deport the Maryland construction worker. U.S.

Jul 21, 2025 1:45 PM Read more >

Canada joins 24 other nations calling on Israel to end war in Gaza, aid restrictions

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and 24 of her counterparts abroad have signed a joint statement calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and for Israel to stop displacing Palestinians.

Jul 21, 2025 1:11 PM Read more >