US mortgage rates decline; 30-year loan at 3.45%
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates declined this week as growing concern over the economic impact of China’...
Judge refuses to let Assange leave secure dock in courtroom
LONDON (AP) — A British judge refused Thursday to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange move from a glass-enclosed dock a...
Steyer courts voters that Biden needs for decisive SC win
GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden’s political future depends on convincing South Carolina’s black voters to rally behind...
AP-NORC poll: Election security, integrity worry Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have widespread concerns about the security and integrity of elections, with few saying they...
About 40% of US adults are obese, government survey finds
NEW YORK (AP) — About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 is severely so, government researchers said ...
Pope cancels visit with Rome priests for ‘slight’ illness
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is sick and he skipped a planned Mass with Rome clergy across town on Thursday, officia...
AP Interview: Al-Qaida, IS affiliates team up in West Africa
THIES, Senegal (AP) — The only place in the world where fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are coop...
UK court blocks Heathrow expansion over climate concerns
LONDON (AP) — Campaigners won a court ruling Thursday to block the plan for a third runway at Heathrow Airport on enviro...
Labor union unveils $150M campaign to help defeat Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the nation’s largest labor unions is unveiling plans to invest $150 million in a nationwide cam...
Fight by 2 Republicans for Georgia Senate seat unnerves GOP
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A Republican congressman’s decision to challenge freshly appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler is pitting ...
Texas looms large as Super Tuesday bonanza for Democrats
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Bernie Sanders packed a rodeo arena in Dallas. Mike Bloomberg has spent more than $13.5 million on ...
UN: Rival Libyan politicians meet for peace talks in Geneva
CAIRO (AP) — Rival Libyan politicians met on Wednesday for U.N.-sponsored political talks in Geneva aimed at ending the ...
The Latest: Biden not worried about Trump refusing to leave
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the Democratic presidential primary contest (all times local):9:05 p.m.Democ...
Idaho moves closer to ban on transgender women in athletics
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho moved closer Wednesday to banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports despite w...
Arizona’s largest newspaper quits candidate endorsements
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Republic, which drew global attention in 2016 for endorsing a Democrat for president for the ...
Buttigieg aides say path beyond March 3 possible but tricky
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is bracing his supporters for a difficult stretch...
Report: Domestic extremists killed at least 42 in 2019
White supremacists and other far-right extremists killed at least 38 people in the U.S. in 2019, the sixth deadliest yea...
Bloomberg’s online campaign tests Facebook, Twitter rules
Mike Bloomberg’s stockpile of cash, swarm of employees and paid social media influencers are testing the abilities of on...
Shifting demographics drive GOP nosedive on US West Coast
BEND, Ore. (AP) — In the early 1990s, the population of Bend was around 25,000 and leaned Republican. A lumber mill oper...
Cause of Los Angeles-area refinery fire under investigation
CARSON, Calif. (AP) — The cause of an explosion and fire at a Southern California refinery was under investigation Wedne...
House makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legis...
Campaign to open Trump community centers to woo black voters
WASHINGTON (AP) — Flush with cash, President Donald Trump’s campaign is stepping up its outreach to black Americans as i...
Pope observes usual Ash Wednesday customs in time of virus
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated the Ash Wednesday ritual that marks the opening of the Catholic Church’s Len...
Death toll rises to 24 from Delhi riots during Trump trip
NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 24 people were killed and 189 injured in three days of clashes in New Delhi that coincided wit...
An increasingly isolated Iran tries to control virus crisis
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran girded Wednesday for a long battle against the coronavirus that is spreading rap...
The Honda Classic is much more than ‘The Bear Trap’
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — PGA National’s signature test is a three-hole span on the back nine called “The Bear Tra...
On education, Sanders lauded for substance, knocked for cost
During the 2016 Democratic presidential race, when Bernie Sanders pushed making college free, it was seen as a radical i...
Amy Klobuchar needs black voters, but some feel ‘peripheral’
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — It took several weeks and about two dozen emails before Amy Klobuchar agreed to sit down with the pre...
Congress warns Pentagon not to move money to fund Trump wall
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties told Pentagon leaders on Wednesday that the Defense Department is undermin...
Biden claims momentum as Sanders marches past debate fray
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Eyeing a South Carolina victory to rescue his presidential ambitions, Joe Biden claimed one of t...