TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:

Toronto Stock Exchange (20,948.09, up 113.79):

Royal Bank of Canada. (TSX:RY). Finance. Up 35 cents, or 0.26 per cent, to 132.80 on 11 million shares.

Toronto-Dominion Bank. (TSX:TD). Finance. Down $1.04, or 1

Toronto city councillor Josh Matlow says he’s been encouraged to seek the federal Liberal nomination to represent Toronto-St. Paul’s and isn’t ruling it out.

In a social media post, Matlow said: “I am giving this opportunity the thoughtful consideration it deserves and will decide soon.”

MADISON, Wis . (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans appear to be at an impasse over a .

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Tuesday that he would not compromise with state Senate Republicans to address their concerns with his proposal. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu the bill’s proposed creation of state-run dispensaries was a “nonstarter.”

Vos said at a news conference that “months and months of negotiations” resulted in a “very detailed bill” he proposed that has the minimum 50 votes needed to pass among Republicans

Experts say Loblaw’s decision to reduce steep discounts on soon-to-expire food is a move to match its competitors.

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. was previously offering discounts of up to 50 per cent on items nearing expiry but has now moved to lower its range to between 30 and 50 per cent.

Lisa Hutcheson, a retail analyst at J.C. Williams Groups, says the shift is in line with competitors offering similar discounts in a 30-to-50 per cent window

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican writer José Agustín, who chronicled rock and roll and social change in Mexico in the 1960s and 70s, has died, Mexico’s Culture Department announced on Tuesday. He was 79.

The department did not list a cause of death, but Agustín had been ill for years. The writer’s family confirmed the death, but also did not give a cause.

Agustín was considered part of the 19

DENVER (AP) — The shooter who and endangered the lives of over 40 others at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs plans to plead guilty to new federal charges for hate crimes and firearm violations under an agreement that would allow the defendant to avoid the death penalty, according to court documents made public Tuesday.

Anderson Aldrich, 23, made a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to 50 hate crime charges and 24 firearm violations, the documents show. Aldrich would get multiple life sentences in addition to

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have halted plans to hold in contempt of Congress this week for citing negotiations with his attorneys that could end the standoff over his testimony.

Republicans were set to advance the contempt resolution against Hunter Biden to the House floor in a procedural step Tuesday, but called it off “to give the attorneys additional time to reach an agreement,” according to a spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee.

The move comes days after an attorney for President Joe Biden’s son with Republicans’ ongoing impeachment

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — candidacy rolled into Iowa last spring as if it had been designed by a committee of drooling Republican officials in a GOP-leaning state.

A Navy veteran, DeSantis had been whisked into a second term and had a fresh set of conservative measures tucked under his arm and an ambitious $100-million political machine built with Iowa in mind. At first blush, it seemed to many to be the key to picking lock on the Hawkeye State’s Republican base.

The

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s casino and sports betting operators and their online partners won nearly $5.8 billion in 2023, setting a new record, figures released Tuesday show.

That’s up nearly 11% from a year earlier.

But the news was not as encouraging for Atlantic City’s nine casinos, two-thirds of which are still winning less money from in-person gamblers than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic