Politics News

November 16, 2018

Democrat Porter flips GOP House seat in Southern California

Democrat Katie Porter captured a Republican-held U.S. House seat Thursday in the heart of what once was Southern California's ...

November 16, 2018

Witness: El Chapo got police escort after escape

When the notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was Mexico's most-wanted fugitive in 2001 following a prison breakout, ...

November 16, 2018

FBI re-creates decoy heads Alcatraz inmates used in escape

Half a century after a notorious prison escape from Alcatraz Island, the FBI has created replicas of decoy heads that inmates ...

November 16, 2018

Mexico's president elect reaches out to business elite

Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has reached out to the country's business elite, announcing the ...

November 16, 2018

Bitter battle for Florida Senate seat goes to hand recount

Florida's acrimonious battle for the U.S. Senate headed Thursday to a legally required hand recount after an initial review ...

November 16, 2018

Ad uses lynching photo to slam senator's 'hanging' remark

A political ad uses a 1930 photo of a white crowd in Indiana posing around a tree as the lifeless bodies of two black men ...

November 16, 2018

The Latest: At least 55,000 ballots in Senate hand recount

The Latest on Florida's election recount (all times local): 7 p.m. Election offices across Florida will have to hand count ...

November 16, 2018

More caravan migrants arrive in Tijuana, brace for long stay

More buses of exhausted people in a caravan of Central American asylum seekers reached the U.S. border Thursday as the city ...

November 16, 2018

Thousands warmly recall officer hailed as bar shooting hero

The sheriff's sergeant who gave his life saving others during a mass shooting last week was remembered warmly Thursday as a ...

November 16, 2018

Women elected in record numbers in state legislative races

Women's winning streak in this year's elections has extended to statehouses across the country. More than 2,000 women will ...

November 16, 2018

Senate lets Bahrain weapon sale proceed; Yemen unease grows

The Senate rejected an effort Thursday to block $300 million in weapon sales to Bahrain, but there's growing unease in ...

November 16, 2018

Judge allows Mueller case against Russian company to proceed

A federal judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a special counsel indictment against a Russian company accused of interfering ...

November 16, 2018

FDA to crack down on menthol cigarettes, flavored vapes

In a major new effort to curb smoking, a top U.S. health official pledged Thursday to try to ban menthol cigarettes and ...

November 16, 2018

Utility asked last month to hike bills over California fires

A utility facing severe financial pressure amid speculation its equipment may have sparked a deadly Northern California ...

November 15, 2018

US cutting counterterror forces in Africa

The Pentagon is reducing its counterterrorism forces in Africa and studying whether to make similar moves elsewhere in the ...

November 15, 2018

South Dakota turkeys head to White House seeking pardons

A pair of South Dakota turkeys will make their way to the nation's capital in the hopes of receiving presidential pardons and ...

November 15, 2018

Absentee ballots reviewed in heated Georgia governor's race

As the candidates in the disputed race for Georgia governor retreated further into their corners, counties across the state ...

November 15, 2018

Trump seeks confirmation of new US ambassador to Iraq

President Donald Trump is asking the Senate to approve a new ambassador to Iraq as the U.S. ratchets up pressure on ...

November 15, 2018

Democrat flips US House seat in Maine ranked balloting

A Democrat who trailed a Republican incumbent in a costly U.S. House race came from behind to emerge as the victor Thursday ...