Politics

WINNIPEG — A byelection has been called to fill a legislature seat left vacant after the death of Manitoba's former education minister. Voters in the east Winnipeg riding of Transcona will head to the polls on March 18 to choose a new representative.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans pushed ahead late Tuesday on a scaled-back budget bill, a $340 billion package to give the Trump administration money for mass deportations and other priorities, as Democrats prepare a counter-campaign against the

Officials in Yukon say they believe about 19 million litres of cyanide-contaminated water leaked from a containment pond at the site of a mining disaster last year before the problem was spotted and the water diluted.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Department of Government Efficiency staffers were at the Pentagon on Tuesday and receiving lists of the military’s probationary employees, U.S. officials said.

A federal judge refused Tuesday to immediately block billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs. While U.S.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas became the latest state to ban gender-affirming care for minors Tuesday after the Republican-controlled Legislature overrode the Democratic governor's veto of the measure.

BOSTON (AP) — The general manager of the United States team in the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament said he would welcome a visit from President Donald Trump to the championship game between the U.S. and Canada on Thursday night.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused Tuesday to immediately block billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs. U.S.

Catholic bishops sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement , calling the action unlawful and harmful to newly arrived refugees and to the nation's largest private resettlement program. The U.S.