Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing tougher standards for a deadly air pollutant, saying that reducing soot from tailpipes, smokestacks and wildfires could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year.

OTTAWA — A group called the No Fighter Jets Coalition is holding weekend rallies to oppose Ottawa's plans to buy F-35 strike fighters.

TOPEKA, Kan.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Friday hit six executives and board members of an Iranian drone manufacturer with sanctions after the firm allegedly supplied Moscow with drones that Russian forces have been using to attack Ukraine.

TORONTO — Ontario's New Democrats are moving up a vote to confirm Toronto-area legislator Marit Stiles as the party's leader. The NDP held a meeting of its provincial council on Thursday and decided to hold the vote on Feb.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov.

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A journalists' union in South Sudan asserted Friday that six staffers with the national broadcaster are detained in connection with footage apparently showing the country’s president urinating on himself during an event.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two years to the day since U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley's now-famous raised-fist salute to rioters at the U.S. Capitol, a Marine veteran who ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2022 announced Friday that he'll try to unseat Hawley in 2024.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan and the United States will hold security talks between their foreign and defense ministers in Washington the day before Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida lands in the U.S.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.