Politics

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and philanthropist who has never held public office, promised on Friday that as San Francisco's mayor he will help struggling small businesses and bring an end to the open-air dru

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Senate discriminated against a Black attorney by paying her about half of what her white colleagues were paid for doing the same job, the U.S. Justice Department says in a lawsuit it filed Friday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A good-governance group is warning of severe consequences if President-elect Donald Trump continues to steer clear of formal transition planning with the Biden administration — inaction that it says is already limiting the federal g

OTTAWA — Inuit leaders met with federal cabinet ministers on Friday to iron out the final details of their submissions to Canada's Arctic foreign policy.

EDMONTON — Longtime Alberta bureaucrat Ray Gilmour has been appointed interim leader of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, the Crown agency set up to manage public pensions and investments at arm's-length from government.

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Women have won 60 seats in the New Mexico Legislature to secure the largest female legislative majority in U.S. history, stirring emotions of joy, surprise and vindication.

Voters in Nova Scotia are scheduled to go to the polls on Nov. 26. At dissolution, the Progressive Conservatives held 34 seats in the 55-seat legislature, the Liberals held 14 seats, the NDP had six and there was one Independent.

More than three months after announcing an independent review into the Paris Olympics drone-spying scandal, Canada Soccer now has the document in hand.

REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, fresh off a challenging election campaign, announced a new cabinet Thursday while deprioritizing a change room directive he had touted as his first order of business after the vote.