Impeachment intensifies buzz about Pompeo run for US Senate
TOPEKA, Kan. — A persistent buzz about Mike Pompeo stepping down as the top U.S. diplomat to run for an open Senate seat in Kansas has built to a roar...
Bloomberg spending $15M-$20M to register half million voters
WASHINGTON — As he moves toward a presidential announcement, New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg is rolling out plans to spend an estimated $15 mil...
Trump directed Ukraine quid pro quo, key witness says
WASHINGTON — Ambassador Gordon Sondland told House impeachment investigators Wednesday that he worked with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine at the “express di...
Ex-Baltimore mayor charged in ‘Healthy Holly’ book scandal
BALTIMORE — The disgraced former mayor of Baltimore was charged Wednesday with fraud and tax evasion involving sales of her self-published children's ...
Impeachment hearings takeaways: `Everyone was in the loop’
WASHINGTON — Gordon Sondland, President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, was the most anticipated witness in the House impeachment inq...
7 key questions heading into the 2020 Democratic debate
WASHINGTON — New uncertainty hangs over the Democratic presidential primary as 10 candidates meet on the debate stage once again.
‘I now recall’: What to watch in Trump impeachment hearings
WASHINGTON — Exactly what is Gordon Sondland’s story?
Time and again, Sondland’s Ukraine tale differs from others
WASHINGTON — The witnesses who have testified publicly and privately in the House impeachment inquiry so far have generally told a consistent tale.
The Latest: House panel wraps up 5-hour hearing
WASHINGTON — The Latest on the public impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine (all times local):
US Latinas need twice the time to match white male’s income
WASHINGTON — Government figures show that on average, Latinas in the United States are paid 54 cents for every dollar that a white, non-Hispanic male ...
Republicans assail security aide who reported Trump call
WASHINGTON — A career Army officer on assignment to President Donald Trump’s National Security Council testified Tuesday he felt it was his duty to ob...
GOP-requested witness rejects Trump ‘conspiracy theories’
WASHINGTON — Sought by Republicans to testify, the former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine spoke up instead for Democrat Joe Biden in Tuesday’s impeachme...
Impeachment hearings takeaways: Firsthand witnesses appear
WASHINGTON — There were attacks on the credibility of a witness in uniform and hand-wringing by another witness on all that he knows now that he says ...
‘I am an American,’ Vindman reminds Trump allies in hearing
WASHINGTON — “It’s Lt. Col. Vindman.”
House Dems recommend Maloney to head Oversight Committee
WASHINGTON — A House Democratic panel on Tuesday recommended that Rep. Carolyn Maloney lead the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee, and if ...
Ukrainian gas executive cooperating in US probe of Giuliani
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are planning to interview an executive with Ukraine’s state-owned gas company as part of an ongoing probe into the bu...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump stretches in assailing witnesses
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused witnesses at the House impeachment hearings of spreading word-of-mouth information about matter...
House passes short-term spending measure as talks falter
WASHINGTON — The House has passed a short-term spending bill to keep federal agencies running for another month. The hope is that the additional time ...
Trump says he went through ‘very routine physical’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he went through a “very routine physical” when he visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Sat...
Warren unveils a plan to combat white nationalist crime
WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren has released a proposal to combat white nationalism that includes making prosecuting crimes committed by hate groups a t...
About that call: What to watch at Trump impeachment hearings
WASHINGTON — They heard the July 25 phone call for themselves.
Buttigieg speaks at black college in push to boost support
ATLANTA — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told a crowd at Morehouse College that what black voters on the campaign trail most want to...
US, Montenegro plot cyber warfare ahead of 2020 elections
PODGORICA, Montenegro — Deployed inside the sprawling communist-era army command headquarters in Montenegro’s capital, an elite team of U.S. military ...
US, South Korea cut short meeting over sharing defense costs
SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. and South Korean officials have publicly acknowledged the allies remain far apart in negotiations for increasing South Korea...
US prison system long plagued by staffing crisis, violence
WASHINGTON — For years, the federal Bureau of Prisons has been plagued by systematic failures, from massive staffing shortages to chronic violence. Bu...
Patrick defends corporations and capitalism in primary bid
DES MOINES, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick is centering his fledgling campaign on a defense of corporations and capitalism tha...
Diplomat says of Trump Ukraine call: ‘I remember it vividly’
WASHINGTON — The phone call State Department official David Holmes overheard between President Donald Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland lasted just...
Trump’s weekend hospital visit draws a skeptical reaction
WASHINGTON — A lack of notice. Past failures to level with the American people. A tough week for the White House as public impeachment hearings got un...
Correction: Prescription Drugs story
WASHINGTON — In a story Nov. 18 about the White House push for prescription drug legislation, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of the ex...
US angers Palestinians with reversal on Israeli settlements
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday softened the U.S. position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, reversing four decades of...