Politics

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday ordered an independent investigation into the state police after an audit last month that showed troopers falsified information on at least 26,000 traffic stops from 2014 to 2021.

EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande . Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America's southern border. For more than two years, Texas Republican Gov.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte announced her candidacy for governor of New Hampshire on Monday, days after fellow Republican Chris Sununu declined to seek a fifth term. “Gov.

MONTREAL — Ottawa is restricting the conditions under which it will allow subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, but is leaving untouched — for now — the industry's largest source of public financing.

OTTAWA — Foreign-aid groups are praising Ottawa for funding initiatives in developing countries that aim to keep women who care for children or elders from being excluded from the economy.

OTTAWA — "Freedom Convoy" organizer Pat King has been scheduled to stand trial beginning Nov. 27, andnow says he wants to be judged by a jury of his peers.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fraught politics of abortion have helped turn an August ballot question in Ohio that would make it harder to change the state constitution into a cauldron of misinformation and fear-mongering.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is tapping Shuwanza Goff — a veteran congressional aide who also served as his main point of contact to the House at the start of the administration — as his new director of legislative affairs , making her the f

MONTREAL — A Muslim organization and a civil liberties group asked for permission on Monday to appeal a Quebec Superior Court ruling that denied their request to suspend the province’s ban on visible prayer in public schools.

OTTAWA — Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett has announced that she will not stand for re-election as a member of Parliament.