Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass proposed a $12.8 billion budget on Monday that would reduce spending on homelessness initiatives, scale back an effort to hire more police officers and eliminate more than 2,100 vacant positions. The mayor's team said her proposed budget for 2024-25 would provide about $950 million to address homelessness, down from the nearly $1.3 billion approved for the current fiscal year. Her spending plan includes $185 million for Inside Safe, Bass' signature program to move...
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow welcomed the federal government’s housing-focused budget but was disappointed that there was no money for the TTC Line 2’s subway cars. “There’s quite a lot in here,” Chow said about the budget at a press conference on Tuesday. “Which means, for Torontonians, we can start building housing -- and some percentage of it will be affordable.” The budget tabled Tuesday includes $4 million over two years for Canada Lands Company to support new modular housing projects,...
Tuesday brought a definitive shift in tone from both the House Republicans and the speaker himself at
Defiant and determined, House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back Tuesday against mounting Republican anger over his proposed U.S. aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies, and rejected a call to step aside or risk a vote to oust him from office.
Defiant and determined, House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back Tuesday against mounting Republican anger over his proposed U.S. aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies, and rejected a call to step aside or risk a vote to oust him from office. “I am not resigning,” Johnson said after a
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The consolidated amendment addresses training needs for police, fire and other public safety departments across Massachusetts.
Thursday, 1st District Councilmember Nathan Willett introduced an ordinance to "affirm to the Missouri State Legislature that Kansas City will not become a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants."
With Los Angeles facing a $469 million budget deficit, Mayor Karen Bass made significant spending cuts in her proposed budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year, including to her Inside Safe program.
Around 2,900 sterilisation procedures were carried out in Finland in 2022 — with more than 2,000 of those being vasectomies, according to THL.
Fresh protests against a Russian-inspired security law are roiling Georgia—a small but strategically located nation in the South Caucasus—as the Black Sea nation struggles to chart a strategic path between its massive northern neighbor and its own Euro-Atlantic ambitions.Thousands have taken to the streets of the capital Tbilisi in recent days to march against a proposed foreign agents registration law. This would require organizations receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad...