Politics News

October 23, 2019

Stocks turn lower amid earnings reports, Brexit delay

Global markets mostly dipped Wednesday after more corporate earnings reports weighed and as Brexit seemed due to be delayed ...

October 23, 2019

Iraq official: US troops from Syria to leave Iraq in 4 weeks

U.S troops withdrawing from northeastern Syria to Iraq are "transiting" and will leave the country within four weeks, Iraq's ...

October 23, 2019

Harris, colleagues seek Ukraine info via public records law

Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and two of her Democratic Senate colleagues are trying to force the Trump administration ...

October 23, 2019

Esper arrives in Baghdad to discuss US troop deployments

Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived in Baghdad Wednesday, as chaos swirled along the Turkey-Syria border and Iraqi leaders ...

October 23, 2019

Trump claim brings new pain to relatives of lynching victims

Willie Edwards Jr., a black truck driver, was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen who forced him to jump off a bridge in Alabama in ...

October 23, 2019

Canada's Trudeau wins reelection but faces a divided nation

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau begins his second term facing an increasingly divided Parliament and country, with his ...

October 23, 2019

Giuliani associates due in court in campaign finance case

Two associates of Rudy Giuliani are to be arraigned Wednesday on charges they used straw donors to make illegal campaign ...

October 23, 2019

Farewells to US Rep. Elijah Cummings to begin in Baltimore

Constituents, friends and other mourners are set to gather at a historically black college in Baltimore to honor the life of ...

October 23, 2019

Trump 2020 targeting Hispanic vote in nontraditional places

President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is making contrarian appeals in the most unusual places, trying to win over ...

October 23, 2019

Protests, uncertainty over possible Morales win in Bolivia

International election monitors expressed concern over Bolivia's presidential election process Tuesday after an oddly delayed ...

October 23, 2019

The Latest: White House slams testimony as 'triple hearsay'

The Latest on President Donald Trump and testimony by Ambassador William Taylor in the House impeachment probe (all times ...

October 23, 2019

Police chief skipping Trump's 1st Chicago visit as president

Donald Trump's appearance next week at a police chiefs conference will be his first visit as president to Chicago, a city he ...

October 23, 2019

The Latest: Pence says 5-day cease-fire in Syria has held

The Latest on the situation in Syria following the Turkish invasion earlier this month into the country's north (all times ...

October 23, 2019

Trump donor to plead guilty to hiding work as foreign agent

A prolific political fundraiser who raised millions of dollars for Democrats before donating large sums to President Donald ...

October 23, 2019

Lawsuit: ICE agent threatened immigrant, raped her for years

An immigration agent threatened a Honduran woman living in Connecticut with deportation if she didn't have sex with him, then ...

October 22, 2019

2 Chicago police officers convicted on corruption charges

A Chicago police sergeant and an officer in his gang crime squad were convicted Tuesday on charges alleging that they lied ...

October 22, 2019

Facebook says Libra won't launch without US approval

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims to reassure Congress on Wednesday that his company won't try to evade financial regulators ...

October 22, 2019

Trump finds no simple fix in Syria, other world hotspots

President Donald Trump's plan to reverse America's involvement in "endless wars" has run up against a difficult truth: When ...

October 22, 2019

Rep. Ilhan Omar condemns GOP state lawmaker's Facebook post

Rep. Ilhan Omar has condemned a Republican state senator from North Dakota who posted a long-debunked photo on his Facebook ...

October 22, 2019

Court weighing whether judge can unseal lynching records

A historian's effort to unseal grand jury records from the brazen 1946 lynching of two black couples on a Georgia riverbank ...