GOP senators upset by Schiff remark, Dems claim ‘diversion’
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans said lead impeachment prosecutor Adam Schiff insulted them during the trial by repeating an anonymously sourced report...
Trump’s idea of executive power is also impeachment defense
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has always been a man of absolutes.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s impeachment defense and the facts
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's lawyers opened his Senate impeachment defense Saturday with the false assertion that Democrats tried to shut the...
Trump defends Sanders, stoking Democratic divisions
WASHINGTON — As tensions between Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren rose earlier this month, Sanders found himself...
Politics weigh heavily in Trump’s Mideast peace plan
WASHINGTON — A blueprint the White House is rolling out to resolve the decades-long conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is as much about po...
With Trump’s help, NJ’s Van Drew courts former foes
President Donald Trump is expected to draw a crowd — and headlines — Tuesday when he comes to the New Jersey shore to reward newly minted Republican ...
Democrats speak to history with exhaustive impeachment case
WASHINGTON — At times it seemed like few senators in the chamber were really listening. But the House Democrats presenting the impeachment case agains...
GOP shows little desire for witnesses ahead of critical vote
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Senate appear unmoved by the Democratic push for witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial despite persi...
House is given tape of Trump calling for ambassador’s ouster
NEW YORK — An associate of Rudy Giuliani has provided congressional investigators with a recording of President Donald Trump saying he wanted to get r...
Trial highlights: Dems cry cover-up, Trump hails activists
WASHINGTON — From the floor of the Senate, Democratic impeachment prosecutors said Friday that Trump tried to cover up his actions with Ukraine, anoth...
Pentagon: 34 troops suffered brain injuries in Iran strike
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon disclosed on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran's missile strike this month on an...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false assurance about troops in Iraq
WASHINGTON — At first, President Donald Trump stated inaccurately that no U.S. troops were injured in the Iranian missile attack against them in Iraq....
Schiff sets tone of impeachment case, says ‘right matters’
WASHINGTON — For a few gripping minutes, Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment prosecutor against President Donald Trump, had made the restless Senat...
2 lawyers on Trump defense team shared Epstein as a client
WASHINGTON — Two of the lawyers on President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team have shared another client: Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr both he...
Tweets urge calls to Supreme Court for fair Senate trial
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court doesn't have a public comment line for its own work, much less the Senate's.
Warren vows her organization will win primary, beat Trump
DES MOINES, Iowa — Elizabeth Warren says she has more than 1,000 campaign staffers in 31 states and 100-plus field offices, a show of organizational s...
Study links impeachment beliefs to regular news diets
NEW YORK — For many Americans, how they feel about issues raised during President Donald Trump's impeachment has much to do with where they get their ...
US Vice President Pence to Pope Francis: you made me a hero
VATICAN CITY — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told Pope Francis, “You made me a hero" back home by granting him a private audience at the Vatican on F...
Democrats argue ‘right matters’ in Trump impeachment trial
WASHINGTON — Democratic House prosecutors made an expansive case Thursday at Donald Trump's impeachment trial that he abused power like no other presi...
Now on Trump’s team, Dershowitz says, ‘I haven’t changed’
WASHINGTON — Alan Dershowitz was in line at Mar-a-Lago's lavish Christmas Eve buffet last month when President Donald Trump stopped to chat.
Trial highlights: Conspiracy theories and fidget spinners
WASHINGTON — Democrats argued that President Donald Trump sought a phony investigation of a political rival and pursued a discredited conspiracy theor...
Trump vs. Bloomberg: Fortunes collide in pricey knife fight
NEW YORK — They are circling each other like wary boxers, with taunts on Twitter, snarky asides and belittling descriptions. They rose to prominence i...
Trump: Mideast peace plan likely rolled out in days
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he'll likely release the long-awaited White House Mideast peace plan before his meeting early ne...
US general says troop surge in Middle East may not end soon
ABOARD THE USS BATAAN — Over the past eight months, the United States has poured more than 20,000 additional troops into the Middle East to counter th...
Rep. Ilhan Omar launches reelection bid with big advantages
MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Ilhan Omar’s congressional career got off to a rocky start just a year ago, with her provocative remarks on Israel and Jews stirrin...
9 parents separated from families return to children in US
LOS ANGELES — As his long-lost son walked toward him in an airport terminal, a sobbing David Xol stretched out his arms, fell to one knee and embraced...
Trial highlights: Democrats roll out case as senators fidget
WASHINGTON — House prosecutors faced fidgeting senators as they rolled out their case against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, the trial's previou...
Democrats not alone in soliciting votes in Iowa; GOP is, too
WASHINGTON — With all eyes on Democrats as they prepare to cast their ballots in Iowa's highly anticipated kickoff caucuses, President Donald Trump's ...
AP-NORC poll: Public doubts Senate trial will be revealing
WASHINGTON — Americans are sharply divided along party lines about whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office, and they doubt the Se...
Schiff takes conciliatory tone after Roberts’ admonishment
WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment manager, took a conciliatory tone at President Donald Trump’s Senate trial on Wednesday after Chie...