Politics

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is seizing on his party’s frustration with the recent surge of illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border to churn up fears around another top GOP concern — voter fraud .

MONTREAL — As children ran up a snow-covered hill toward a Montreal elementary school Tuesday morning, few looked back to their parents on the sidewalk, who exchanged greetings with one another for the first time in nearly seven weeks.

OTTAWA — Ukraine's president says getting air defence systems onto the battlefield is the top priority in the new year, but the system Canada promised a year ago still hasn't been delivered and it is not clear when it will be.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A young woman who dominated the discussion about abortion during Kentucky's campaign last year stepped forward again Tuesday to call on lawmakers to relax the state's near-total abortion ban.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democrats who control the Maine Legislature on Tuesday rejected a Republican effort to impeach the state's top election official for her decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state ballot over his role in the

OTTAWA — Sweden's prime minister says his country plans to join a Canadian-led NATO brigade force in Latvia. In a speech Monday to a national security conference, Ulf Kristersson said his government intends to contribute a reduced battalion.

HALIFAX — The RCMP have failed to meet a self-imposed deadline to detail how they plan to implement recommendations from the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Controller Malia M. Cohen wants Congress to change the tax code to cap deferred payments, a change that could ensure the state is owed more money from Shohei Ohtani.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana said Tuesday he will not seek reelection this year to a fourth term, becoming the latest House member to announce that they won't run for reelection.