Hawaii governor wants more legal advice before filling Senate vacancy
Gov. Josh Green says if he has to pick a new state senator for District 22 before the Aug. 10 primary it will be Cross Makani Crabbe.
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Wisconsin judge rejects attempt to revive recall targeting top GOP lawmaker
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt to revive the recall effort targeting the longest-serving Wisconsin Assembly speaker in state history, saying signatures were wrongly collected under legislative boundary lines now barred from use in any election.
The U.S. readies to evacuate Americans from Lebanon if fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies
TEL AVIV — The Pentagon is moving U.S. military assets closer to Israel and Lebanon to be ready to evacuate Americans as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies, according to three U.S. defense officials and a former U.S. official familiar with the plans.
Canadian military planning for evacuation of 20,000 from Lebanon, says top commander
The country's top military commander says contingency evacuation plans have been drawn up to extract roughly 20,000 Canadians from Lebanon should full-scale fighting erupt between Israel and Hezbollah, but those plans are heavily dependent on allied support.
Sajjan says he relayed information on rescuing Sikhs in Afghanistan during chaotic fall of Kabul
Then-defence minister Harjit Sajjan relayed information to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) about how to rescue Sikhs in Afghanistan while troops were trying to get Canadians out of Kabul as it was falling to the Taliban in August of 2021.
‘A disastrous event’: All-out war between Israel and Hezbollah could devastate both sides
The near-daily exchanges of fire along Lebanon's border with northern Israel have intensified at an alarming rate in recent weeks, spurring escalating threats between Israel and Hezbollah and forcing the U.S. to call for an urgent diplomatic solution. An all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah — the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shia militant and political organization, called a terrorist group by the U.S. and U.K. — would be devastating for both sides. So stark is the danger of war erupting between Israel and Hezbollah — a far larger and more heavily armed fighting force than Hamas — that U.S. President Joe Biden last week sent one of his top aides, Amos Hochstein, to Israel and Lebanon to push for a solution. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters Tuesday that "diplomacy is by far the best way to prevent more escalation," stressing that, "we are urgently seeking a diplomatic agreement that resto
As Israel and Hezbollah inch toward war, Canada braces for a repeat of the 2006 evacuation
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly had a stark warning Tuesday for Canadian citizens in Lebanon.