(Reuters) – Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith won a U.S. Senate special election runoff in conservative Mississippi on Tuesday, defeating a black challenger after a campaign that recalled the history of racist violence in the deep South state. The white former state lawmaker, who was appointed to the Senate in April, overcame a controversy over her comment […]
City council has ordered a review of Edmonton’s ward boundaries due to several factors, including annexation. The last major review took place in 2009. The city will use an independent commission to gauge the public’s opinion on how citizens are represented at city hall. However, the majority of councillors didn’t feel there was a desire […]
WASHINGTON — John R. Bolton, President Trump’s national security adviser, defended on Tuesday the fact that neither Mr. Trump nor top national security officials had listened to audio of the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying that they did not speak Arabic and would not be able to understand what was on the […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, staunchly denied ever meeting with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday, after the Guardian newspaper published a story alleging the two met at least three times, including once in 2016. “This story is totally false and deliberately libelous. I have never met Julian Assange […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s renewed demand for U.S. taxpayer funding of his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall was threatening again on Tuesday to bring on a budget standoff and a partial government shutdown, leaving Congress just 11 days to act. With time running short, Trump and Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives […]
Councillors in the City of Dieppe have voted in favour of increasing their salaries in the new year. The municipality has a six-year plan — divided into two separate bylaws — which would see the mayor making more than double the current salary by 2024. The first increase, set to take effect on Jan. 1, […]
Edmonton Transit Service has done an analysis of its new bus network and has found there are gaps in its public transportation coverage. Now, the administration is suggesting a pilot project to test the “first kilometre, last kilometre” concept and provide supplemental service for people whose bus stops are too far from their destination to […]
A senior Ukip politician has quit the party at the leader’s "growing fixation" with far-right campaigner Tommy Robinson. MEP Patrick O’Flynn walked away firing a broadside at leader Gerard Batten for welcoming the English Defence League founder. Former newspaper columnist Mr O’Flynn tweeted a statement saying: “Without any mandate from the membership or the party’s […]
Nigel Farage attended last night’s British Curry Awards ceremony – and was loudly booed as he tried to present an award. The ex-Ukip leader, who was presenting an award at the ‘Curry Oscars’, was greeted onstage with a ripple of jeers as he began his speech. The audience, largely made up of owners and staff […]
NORTHFIELD, Minn. — The speculation began the moment Senator Amy Klobuchar walked into the room. “You’re looking at a future president,” whispered Jacob Forman, a Carleton College senior, elbowing a friend as Ms. Klobuchar strode into a campus hall this month to rally a crowd of fired-up Democrats. Frank Wergin, a construction company owner, looked […]