Partial shutdown runs 33rd day
WASHINGTON — House Democrats, feeling pressure to display their vision for border security, are preparing a package that would ignore Presi...
House testimony on hold for now
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, will not testify before a House committee next month as scheduled, his...
LOS ANGELES — Kaye Ballard, the boisterous comedian and singer who appeared in Broadway musicals and nightclubs from New York to Las Vegas and starred with Eve Arden in ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A former coach and a choreographer for a high school dance team in Kansas are denying allegations that they prevented a black student from performing ...
Statements may prove damaging
WASHINGTON — A lawyer’s job is to make a client look innocent, if not to prove it — something President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani ...
Candidates fight over party's base
NEW YORK — Democratic presidential contender Julian Castro launched his campaign by pledging support for “Medicare for All,” free unive...
Supreme Court issues ruling
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration can go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challen...
Nation claims it need not comply
WASHINGTON — An unidentified foreign government is asking the Supreme Court to get involved in a case that may be part of special counsel...
Neither measure expected to pass
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders on Tuesday agreed to vote on dueling proposals to reopen shuttered federal agencies this week, forcing a poli...
Police alert diocese to threats of violence
COVINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky boys’ school shut its campus Tuesday as a precaution and a small protest was held outside its dioc...