Politics

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lawmakers in Nevada and California are advancing legislation to remove “involuntary servitude” from their states' constitutions, a move that follows four states' bans on forced labor that passed in ballot measures last fall.

Ottawa transit officials say the city's beleaguered light-rail system is safe even though concerns were raised earlier this month by the Transportation Safety Board. The safety board said on Feb.

WINNIPEG — Plans are in the works for a meeting of Canada's justice ministers on March 10 in Ottawa to discuss tougher rules for people seeking bail.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday hosted a screening of the movie “ Till ,” a wrenching, new drama about the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till , who was brutally killed after a white woman said the Black 14-year-old had made improper advan

WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the Goldilocks consumer. Defying high inflation and sharp interest rate hikes , Americans keep spending — a trend that, if sustained, could keep the economy humming just enough to help avoid a much-predicted recession.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s largest school district repeatedly and inappropriately secluded and restrained students with disabilities, the U.S.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the Black teenager's brutal lynching.

MUNICH (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will join the leaders of France, Germany, the U.K.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.

QUEBEC — The Quebec government has tabled legislation that would allow people with incurable diseases to make advance requests for medical assistance in dying in the event they become incapacitated.