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New poll says Manitoba PCs would win election if held tomorrow

A new Probe Research study on Manitobans’ voting intentions indicates that the Progressive Conservatives would win an provincial election if it were held tomorrow. A total of 44 per cent of those polled said Premier Brian Pallister and his PC party would get their vote, with the NDP coming in second at 27 per cent […]

Trump says chief of staff John Kelly to leave at year's end

Former general joins a long list of Trump aides who have either quit or been sacked by the US leader. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will leave his post at the end of the year, United States President Donald Trump has announced. An announcement about Kelly’s replacement was expected in the coming days, […]

Brexit woes will see France leapfrog UK as sixth biggest economy next year

France will overtake the United Kingdom to become the world’s sixth biggest economy next year as the impact of Brexit bites, a reports has said. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said "disruption" to the British economy was inevitable due to lower inward and business investment. However, the CEBR’s World Economic League Table […]

In Latest Shutdown, Some Lawmakers See a Diminished Congress

WASHINGTON — As the third government shutdown of the Trump era dragged into Christmas, lawmakers from both parties said on Monday that the partial lapse in government funding was in large part the consequence of Congress’s ceding of power to the executive branch, a longstanding trend that may have peaked in the Trump era. On […]

US Congress approves short-term spending bill to avert shutdown

Move sets up a possible showdown later this month over President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall. US Congress on Thursday approved a two-week stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, setting up a potential showdown over President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall later this month. Without action by Congress, funding for several federal agencies, […]

Trump, top Democrats spar over shutdown amid lack of progress

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and top Democrats in Congress sparred over the partial shutdown of the U.S. government on Monday, with no sign of tangible efforts to re-open agencies closed by an impasse over Trump’s demand for funds for a border wall. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and his counterpart in the House […]

Texas’ One-Stop Shopping for Judge in Health Care Case

WASHINGTON — When lawyers for Texas and 19 other states were deciding where to file a lawsuit seeking to wipe out President Barack Obama’s health care law, they had many choices. But they settled on a federal courthouse in Fort Worth, Tex. Forum shopping in litigation is common, and liberal lawyers challenging Trump administration initiatives […]