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WASHINGTON — Roger Stone has more explaining to do. In a brief court order Friday, the judge overseeing Stone’s criminal case asked lawyers for the longtime adviser to President Donald Trump why she wasn’t told about the “imminent general release”... Read More
SAN DIEGO — A U.S. Marine veteran who rose to power as a reputed Mexican drug kingpin has been named in a massive cocaine-trafficking indictment in San Diego. The investigation into Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr.’s organization revealed “an unprecedented level... Read More
LOS ANGELES — A sunfish that lives south of the equator recently washed up on a Santa Barbara County beach, and scientists are at a loss as to how the giant creature got so off-course. The massive 7-foot-long and 7-foot-wide... Read More
MIAMI — A court hearing on whether to unseal sensitive documents involving the alleged sex trafficking of underage girls by Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein — and the possible involvement of his influential friends — will play out in a... Read More
SEOUL, South Korea — President Donald Trump traveled more than 8,000 miles to Vietnam and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un trekked more than 2,000, arguably for little more than a photo and a handshake. In announcing the anticlimactic no-deal... Read More
LONDON, Ky. — Michael Calebs begins feeling nostalgic standing in the airy barn on his rolling, 400-acre farm. He recalls the hard labor of his youth: climbing up to horizontal beams to hang floppy tobacco leaves to air cure so... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Andrew Wheeler to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, handing the reins of the agency responsible for ensuring clean air and safe drinking water to a former coal industry lobbyist. The 52-to-47 vote removed... Read More
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two doctors who treat military veterans were working at emergency room desks when a colleague screamed Wednesday night that someone had a gun. The physicians, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Riviera Beach, heard about... Read More
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly once reportedly claimed that he had been “ordered” by President Donald Trump to give Jared Kushner top-secret security clearance. Trump officially commanded his chief of staff to make it happen in May,... Read More
LOS ANGELES — Nearly four months after California’s most devastating wildfire swept through Paradise and surrounding towns, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has acknowledged that its equipment probably sparked the blaze that destroyed nearly 14,000 homes and killed 85 people,... Read More
MISSION, Texas — President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency along the border with Mexico, but here in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, there’s little sign of a government springing into action. Earlier this week, two contractors surveyed a 150-foot-wide,... Read More
WASHINGTON — The ambitious Green New Deal proposal for combating climate change was dealt another blow Wednesday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to commit to holding a vote on the nonbinding resolution. “I can’t say we’re going to take that... Read More
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A coal company manager took part in cheating on tests designed to protect miners from contracting deadly black lung disease, a federal grand jury has charged. The grand jury issued a new indictment adding Glendal “Buddy” Hardison... Read More
WASHINGTON — Michael Cohen, once among President Donald Trump’s most ardent defenders, fiercely turned on him Wednesday, describing a culture of rampant criminality and nonstop lying around Trump involving payoffs to his alleged mistresses, inflated personal wealth and secret efforts... Read More
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — McCrae Dowless, the North Carolina political operative at the center of the 9th Congressional District election fraud case, was arrested Wednesday after being indicted on charges related to collecting absentee ballots in the 2018 primary and 2016... Read More
WASHINGTON — Less than a week after his surprise call for a new election in North Carolina’s 9th District, Republican Mark Harris announced he will not be a candidate in that contest. Harris, the 2018 GOP nominee for... Read More
WASHINGTON — The increasingly powerful Democratic left sees a huge opening this year to promote Medicare for all in Congress. But they need to convince Rep. John Yarmuth, and that’s going to be tough. Read More
HANOI, Vietnam — President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un arrived in Vietnam’s capital on Tuesday for a second summit that could determine whether the high-profile diplomatic outreach will do anything to roll back... Read More
WASHINGTON — After more than a decade as the keeper of Donald Trump’s secrets, Michael Cohen has been spilling the beans about the president’s private business deals, foreign interests and alleged mistresses to... Read More
WASHINGTON — The House’s approval Tuesday of a resolution to override President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration at the southern border sets up a difficult vote for Senate Republicans. Three Republican... Read More
WASHINGTON -- Tough talk about the troubled Venezuelan government during a congressional hearing Tuesday raised more questions about whether U.S. military intervention is possible soon. A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee called the hearing to determine how the U.S. government should... Read More
SEATTLE — Sen. Kamala Harris, who is running for president, wants Medicare for all. Howard Schultz does not. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is running for president, wants public colleges to be free. Howard Schultz does not. Read More
PALM BEACH, Fla. — A staffer on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Trump of kissing her without her consent before a 2016 Florida rally — a claim denied as “absurd” by the White House on Monday. Read More
ORLANDO, Fla. — The next step in NASA’s plan to return astronauts to space from the U.S. has the green light to proceed. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut capsule has been given the OK to perform its test flight ... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday unveiled its opening position in high-stakes budget negotiations set to begin in Congress just weeks after a stalemate over spending led to a 35-day government shutdown. Read More
WASHINGTON — Voters keep voicing their frustration with the politically fraught way that state lawmakers redraw congressional districts every 10 years, and have approved ways to outsource the work with hopes of... Read More
ST. LOUIS — Once intended to reduce crime, the traffic barricades that block hundreds of city streets may be having the opposite effect. Using census and crime data coupled with sophisticated mapping programs... Read More
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday again put off a self-imposed deadline for raising tariffs on Chinese imported goods, saying negotiators for the United States and China made “substantial progress”... Read More
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats will “obviously” take whatever steps are necessary to make public the findings of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, including subpoenaing his final report, calling him to... Read More
LOS ANGELES—Simi Valley reached a $21-million settlement with a man who spent more than 38 years wrongfully incarcerated in the brutal 1978 murders of a woman and her 4-year-old son, officials said. Read More
