Politics

OTTAWA — A Manitoba senator who denies falsifying travel documents says several cabinet ministers were aware of her choice to send letters to Afghans to help them flee as the Taliban took over the country, and that no one told her to stop.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy sailed its first drone boat through the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, a crucial waterway for global energy supplies where American sailors often faces tense encounters with Iranian forces.

NEW YORK (AP) — Before pulling back from the brink of a trial, Fox News and Dominion Voting systems faced a stern deadline — not from an impatient judge or jury, but from a man on a Danube River cruise with his wife half a world away.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s prime minister warned lawmakers Wednesday that the acute drought afflicting the southern European country has become one of its leading long-term concerns.

REGINA — Canada’s only rare earths mining company is pausing all construction at its Saskatoon processing facility.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans for months have railed against the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.

DENVER (AP) — A high school student told Colorado state lawmakers he'd work to oust them if they didn’t support a sweeping ban on semiautomatic weapons. The bill’s sponsor wiped back tears as she implored her Democratic colleagues to support the ban.

VANCOUVER — A First Nation is suing the British Columbia and federal governments and the company behind a railway terminal port in the province's Interior, claiming it wasn't property consulted about the project it says has "desecrated" its ancestral

OTTAWA — Humanitarian and development groups say Canada's vague terror laws have forced them to find loopholes in the Criminal Code for aid workers to operate in Taliban-held Afghanistan, as MPs consider amendments to the law.

EDMONTON — Alberta's United Conservative Party government released a climate plan Wednesday that it hopes will take the province to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 but offers few details, targets or new measures on how it would get there.