What’s new: 3 more Trump officials subpoenaed to testify
WASHINGTON — For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry. House committees a...
US deficit hits nearly $1 trillion. When will it matter?
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration reported a river of red ink Friday.
Trump’s company exploring sale of landmark Washington hotel
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's company said Friday it is exploring the sale of its landmark Washington hotel after nearly three years of ethics...
President Trump takes victory lap on criminal justice reform
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Calling it the "most significant criminal justice reform in many generations," President Donald Trump revisited a signature bipartisa...
Trump: Probe of Russia probe will reveal ‘really bad things’
WASHINGTON — Investigating the investigators, the Justice Department is now scrutinizing the government's Russia probe as a criminal matter, raising D...
DeVos held in contempt of court in loan forgiveness dispute
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has held Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in contempt of court for violating an order to stop collecting loans from thousa...
‘Just too darn old:’ Sanders, Biden confront age concerns
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — Bernie Sanders insists he feels better than ever less than a month after heart surgery, but his return to the campaign trail this...
AP-NORC poll: Most Americans oppose reparations for slavery
DETROIT — Few Americans are in favor of giving reparations to descendants of enslaved black people in the United States, a new poll shows, even as the...
Activists hope to take impeachment fight to the streets
Women's rights, gun control and climate change have drawn masses of demonstrators into the streets during President Donald Trump's first term, but one...
After withdrawal, Trump shifts focus to Syria’s oil fields
WASHINGTON — As Russian and Turkish leaders divvy up security roles in northeast Syria following an abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal, President Donald Tru...
Buttigieg starting to pay price for success: More scrutiny
NASHUA, N.H. — For much of the year, Pete Buttigieg has glided through the Democratic presidential campaign, raising stunning amounts of money, impres...
Gabbard drops congressional race to focus on presidential
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard says she will focus on her White House bid and not run for reelection to her congressiona...
Pence takes swipe at NBA, Nike in critical speech on China
WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence took a swipe at Nike and the NBA on Thursday in a speech criticizing communist China's record on trade and huma...
Schumer proposes $462 billion car swap - gas for electric
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is moving Democrats' climate talk to where the rubber meets the road, proposing a $462 billion trade...
California governor “owns” blackouts, takes political risk
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With hundreds of thousands of Californians again in the dark amid high wildfire danger Thursday, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom had...
President’s defenders focusing mostly on process
WASHINGTON — For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry. House committees a...
Buttigieg calls Facebook’s political ad policy a ‘mistake’
NASHUA, New Hampshire — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Thursday that he believes Facebook's policy to not filter out phony poli...
Analysis: Trump’s ‘success’ in Syria cedes region to Russia
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared success in Syria on Wednesday and created a bumper-sticker moment to illustrate his campaign promise to p...
Judge tells State Dept. to begin producing Ukraine records
WASHINGTON — A judge on Wednesday ordered the State Department to begin producing within 30 days documents related to the Trump administration's deali...
Democrat Buttigieg used marijuana ‘a handful of times’
LAS VEGAS — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that he's used marijuana "a handful of times a long time ago," and that it...
Cummings lying in repose at historically black college
BALTIMORE — Mourners, constituents and other well-wishers paid respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings on Wednesday as his body lay in repose at a histo...
2 Giuliani associates plead not guilty in campaign-cash case
NEW YORK — Two Rudy Giuliani associates, both wearing American flag lapel pins, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges they used foreign money to mak...
Biden: Trump has ‘no idea’ about working-class struggles
SCRANTON, Pa. — Joe Biden hammered President Donald Trump's treatment of the middle class as he campaigned Wednesday in his childhood hometown of Scra...
Black Baptist church shaped Cummings’ commitment
DETROIT — To many black clergy, Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings was more than a formidable orator, civil rights champion and passionate public servan...
Ukrainian leader felt Trump pressure before taking office
KYIV, Ukraine — More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine's newly elected ...
Federal judges seem skeptical of Trump arguments in tax case
NEW YORK — Three judges on a federal appeals panel appeared inclined Wednesday to reject arguments that President Donald Trump's tax returns can't be ...
Trump lifts sanctions on Turkey, says cease-fire permanent
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will lift sanctions on Turkey after the NATO ally agreed to permanently stop fighting Kurdish fo...
Uncertainties escalate for Fed as it weighs another rate cut
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve finds itself in an unusually delicate spot as it considers how much more to try to stimulate an economy that's still ...
Harris, colleagues seek Ukraine info via public records law
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and two of her Democratic Senate colleagues are trying to force the Trump administration to re...
Trump 2020 targeting Hispanic vote in nontraditional places
YORK, Pa. — President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is making contrarian appeals in the most unusual places, trying to win over Hispanic voters i...