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December 16, 2019

AP Exclusive: Birmingham mayor backing Biden for president

The mayor of Alabama’s largest city is endorsing Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination just weeks after the vice ...

December 16, 2019

2020 Watch: Can Warren change the narrative?

Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign: ___ Days to Iowa caucuses: ...

December 16, 2019

House vote, and on to the Senate: What's next in impeachment

The House will vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump this week after spending the past three months investigating ...

December 16, 2019

Phoenix grapples with some of nation's fastest-rising rents

Aspen Day-Flynn and her boyfriend, Travis Tolin, were thinking of moving back to her native Washington state this fall when ...

December 16, 2019

US says it won’t accept North Korea-set nuclear deadline

A senior U.S. diplomat said Monday that Washington won’t accept a year-end deadline set by North Korea to make concessions ...

December 16, 2019

Judge holding bond hearing for man tried 6 times in killings

A judge is being asked Monday to set bond for a Mississippi man who has been tried six times in the same quadruple murder ...

December 16, 2019

AP Exclusive: Thousands of Ohio absentee applications denied

Thousands of Ohio voters were held up or stymied in their efforts to get absentee ballots for last year’s general election ...

December 16, 2019

Turbulence shakes Democrats going into final debate of 2019

Seven Democratic presidential candidates will stand on stage this week in Los Angeles, a pool of survivors who have withstood ...

December 16, 2019

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's selective facts on Ukraine, job myths

As near-certain impeachment closes in on him, President Donald Trump raged at his accusers, the Democrats. In the process, ...

December 16, 2019

Asian markets mixed after US-China trade deal

Asian stock markets were mixed Monday following a U.S.-Chinese trade deal that disappointed some investors. Hong Kong fell, ...

December 16, 2019

Senate Trump impeachment trial in focus ahead of House vote

Senate Democrats are pushing for testimony from top White House officials in the rare impeachment trial that is fast becoming ...

December 16, 2019

Democrats seek Bolton, Mulvaney for impeachment trial

Senate Democrats are proposing a weekslong Senate impeachment trial seeking testimony from four new witnesses including John ...

December 15, 2019

75 years on, Battle of the Bulge memories bond people

As a schoolboy three quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshift ...

December 15, 2019

Horse-trading Iran hawks seize on Pompeo's Senate interest

In recent days, Iran hawks in Congress leveraged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s interest in a Senate run to win a key ...

December 15, 2019

Democratic hopefuls pledge more money for schools, teachers

Democratic presidential candidates pledged to boost funding for public schools, increase teacher salaries and reduce college ...

December 15, 2019

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner wins reelection in runoff

Houston’s incumbent mayor won a second term on Saturday night, holding off a millionaire trial lawyer whose previous support ...

December 15, 2019

China delays tariffs on US autos, other goods in trade deal

China’s government says it will postpone planned punitive tariffs on U.S.-made automobiles and other goods following an ...

December 15, 2019

California utility scrambles to renegotiate wildfire deal

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's opposition to Pacific Gas & Electric's restructuring plan just a week after it struck a $13.

December 15, 2019

Mexico objects over US bill on ratifying trade pact

Just days after a landmark agreement on a trade pact to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico objected ...

December 15, 2019

Trump impeachment vote underscores a harshly partisan era

This coming week’s virtually certain House impeachment of President Donald Trump will underscore how Democrats and ...