Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban have released two Americans held in Afghanistan in what appeared to be a “goodwill gesture," State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has upheld a decision blocking President Joe Biden's administration from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations as part of federal contracts with three states.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's ethics board on Tuesday dismissed a complaint against Gov.

HALIFAX — For the second time in three months, Nova Scotia's finance minister has reported $1.3 billion in additional provincial revenue, thanks mainly to a surging economy.

HAVANA (AP) — When everything seemed to be going wrong, Cuban multimedia artist Alejandro Pablo García Alarcón found a solution in what some might consider an unusual place: NFTs.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s congressional delegation is using the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill to try to delay for six years new protections for endangered whales to protect Maine’s lobster industry.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to travel to Mexico City for a North American Leaders' Summit taking place Jan. 10, his office announced Tuesday.

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian government intensified its crackdown on critics and what it sees as harmful information about its “special military operation” in Ukraine on Tuesday with moves to ban a human rights group and publication of maps that omit an

OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Air Force announced on Tuesday that it would reinstate two officers recently disciplined over a homophobic nickname given to a fighter pilot. Maj.-Gen.

WASHINGTON (AP) — TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday, the latest push by American lawmakers against the Chinese-owned social media app. The $1.