Will Trump take role of unifier or disrupter?
WASHINGTON — Tradition suggests it’s time for Donald Trump to set aside the say-anything speaking style and rise to the inau...
WASHINGTON — Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell on Tuesday introduced legislation to maintain health benefits for retired union coal miners whose companies have decla...
Anonymous tip leads to Texas
WARWICK, R.I. — A mother charged with snatching her two daughters from Rhode Island in 1985 is scheduled to appear before a judge Wednesday a...
Budget gaps grow wide
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans who have pledged to cut federal taxes to boost the economy might cons...
He meets with MLK III on holiday
NEW YORK — Donald Trump spoke of national unity to a son of Martin Luther King Jr., seeking to ease friction over the president-elect’s s...
Social tensions still simmering
ATLANTA — Scott Shepherd didn’t fire the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr., but the former Ku Klux Klansman says he has always felt ...
President greets hometown team
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama celebrated the World Series champion Chicago Cubs on Monday and spoke about the power sports has to uni...
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund is raising its forecast for the U.S. economy this year and in 2018, reflecting an expected boost from the economic policies ...
Gene Cernan walked in 1972
HOUSTON — Former astronaut Gene Cernan, who as the last person to walk on the moon returned to Earth with a message of “peace and hope for all ...
LONDON — British American Tobacco Plc has agreed to fully take over Reynolds American Inc. in a deal that would create the world’s largest publicly traded tobacco compan...
