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by Staff Writer @MapleLeafs / MapleLeafs.com The Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that the hockey club has acquired forward Jared McCann from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for forward Filip Hållander and a seventh-round selection in the 2023 NHL Draft. McCann, 25, recorded 32 points (14 goals, 18 assists) in…

FILE PHOTO: Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. Policy in the Middle East, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., September 24, 2020. Susan Walsh/Pool via REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will nominate Tom Udall, a former U.S. senator who represented…

Thirty-three major Chinese tech firms including Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance signed an agreement on “antitrust self-discipline” on Thursday, vowing fair competition, consumer protection and strengthened innovation. Other major signatories included Huawei, Baidu, and JD. The agreement was drafted by tech companies and the Intellectual Property Centre of the Chinese Academy of…

Ed Gonzalez, a Texas sheriff and President Biden’s pick to lead the embattled Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, faced a grilling from Republican senators Thursday as to why he ended a voluntary collaboration between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials — and whether his past criticism of ICE makes…

Virginia’s Republican Party is a mess. The once reliably reddish commonwealth has grown steadily bluer in recent years, thanks in no small part to the growth that the Washington, D.C., suburbs have experienced over the last decade. Democrats control the state legislature for the first time in a generation and…

Posted July 14, 2021 at 11:21am, Updated at 1:05pm The hard slog to 50 Senate votes is just beginning, as key Democratic centrists are starting to ask questions about the fiscal package guidelines their Budget Committee colleagues agreed to on Tuesday. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III, a crucial Democratic…

When he joined alternative social platform Parler last June, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz decried the “power” that Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube use to “to silence conservatives and to promote their radical left-wing agenda.” But despite his complaints about “woke” corporations and Silicon Valley billionaires whose platforms monopolize public discourse,…

Nobody was more sensitive to the political peril of gun control than Sen. Joe Manchin III, a Democrat from deep-red West Virginia and a proud gun owner. But standing on the Senate floor five months after 20 children and six adults were gunned down in Newtown, Conn., he told colleagues…

If you are struggling to pay for an abortion, and you are in Texas, you are likely relying on an abortion fund, like the Texas Equal Access Fund or Lilith Fund. Those heading to the website of Fund Texas Choice now see this message: “Abortion is still legal in Texas!”…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin’s campaign announced Monday that the political newcomer would not debate Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe at a perennial event hosted by the Virginia Bar Association, in part because of the journalist moderator. Jeff Roe, a strategist for Youngkin, told The Associated Press…