Politics News

January 17, 2020

What you need to know before 2020 Census starts in Alaska

The 2020 Census kicks off Tuesday in remote Alaska. U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham will be there to conduct ...

January 17, 2020

Ex-Guantanamo commander convicted of lying about man's death

A former commander of the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay was convicted Friday of interfering with an investigation into the ...

January 17, 2020

Pentagon adding to restrictions on foreign military students

The Pentagon is imposing new restrictions and controls on all international military students at American bases, including ...

January 17, 2020

Virginia urges justices to uphold weapons ban at gun rally

Virginia urged the state Supreme Court on Friday to uphold a weapons ban at an upcoming gun rally in the capital, insisting ...

January 17, 2020

Sen. Gardner's reelection campaign refunds $33K in donations

Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner's reelection campaign said Friday that it was refunding $33,000 in excess contributions.

January 17, 2020

ICE leader blames 'sanctuary' policies for NYC killing

The country's top immigration official blamed the “sanctuary policies” of New York City on Friday for the sexual assault and ...

January 17, 2020

3 more linked to neo-Nazi group arrested in Georgia

Three men linked to a violent white supremacist group known as The Base were charged with conspiring to kill members of a ...

January 17, 2020

Lawyers: ICE arrests trans migrant woman month after release

One month after winning her release from immigration detention, a transgender woman from El Salvador with several illnesses ...

January 17, 2020

US hits Iran general with sanctions over protest crackdown

The Trump administration on Friday imposed sanctions on a senior Iranian general for his role in a brutal crackdown on ...

January 17, 2020

Hillary Clinton to 2020 Democratic voters: pick a winner

Hillary Rodham Clinton has advice for Democratic voters faced with an unsettled field of presidential contenders: pick a ...

January 17, 2020

Plane slides off taxiway in icy weather as storm hits US

A plane slid off the taxiway at Kansas City International Airport on Friday due to icy conditions that also have closed ...

January 17, 2020

Mexico's president hopes to raffle off presidential jet

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced the latest in a series of desperate ideas Friday to sell off his ...

January 17, 2020

Warren-Sanders dust-up gets 'who cares?' from Iowa Democrats

Ann Stromquist watched this week’s Democratic presidential debate like the research scientist she is. She studied the ...

January 17, 2020

2 dead, 1 gravely hurt in Mexico fireworks explosion

An explosion of a fireworks cache killed two people and critically injured another in a town on the northern outskirts of ...

January 17, 2020

AP Exclusive: AT&T under pressure to defy Maduro's censors

Last April, as a military uprising roiled Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government ordered pay TV providers to ...

January 17, 2020

Iran's top leader strikes defiant tone amid month of turmoil

Iran's supreme leader lashed out at Western countries as he led Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight years, ...

January 17, 2020

Records: Congress candidate Mfume left NAACP under a cloud

As former NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume seeks to regain a congressional seat he once held, The Baltimore Sun reports that records ...

January 17, 2020

Mexico: accident caused drowning deaths of 4 personnel

Mexico's army said Friday the drowning death this week of four soldiers was caused by an accident involving confiscated ...

January 17, 2020

'Days of God': A look at Iran's mounting crises

Iran's supreme leader says his nation is living through “days of God.” The Islamic Republic has been reeling from one crisis ...

January 17, 2020

Mexico's "Thousand Islands" yields 14 corpses in 7 pits

Police said Thursday they found 14 sets of skeletal human remains in seven clandestine burial pits in area known as Mexico's ...