Politics News

December 13, 2019

Democrats threaten to boycott next debate over labor dispute

All the Democratic presidential candidates slated to participate in next week's debate threatened Friday to skip the event ...

December 13, 2019

Lawmakers want former Ky. Gov. Bevin's pardons investigated

Outrage over a spree of pardons by former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin spread to the state capitol Friday as two lawmakers asked ...

December 13, 2019

Police chief admits anonymously trolling critic on Twitter

The police chief in Vermont's largest city used an anonymous Twitter account to troll a government critic, he admitted this ...

December 13, 2019

Governor on refugees: 'The inn is not full in Minnesota'

Minnesota state government will continue to consent to refugee resettlement, Gov. Tim Walz said Friday, in response to a ...

December 13, 2019

Suit: Pilot tried to warn before dozer killed pot suspect

The family of a marijuana suspect who wound up dead under the treads of a bulldozer commandeered by Pennsylvania State Police ...

December 13, 2019

Markets have muted reaction to long-awaited China trade deal

Stocks closed with tiny gains on Wall Street as investors weigh the news that the US and China have reached an initial deal ...

December 13, 2019

Impeachment charges head to House; Trump cries anew: 'Hoax'

Democrats propelled President Donald Trump’s impeachment toward a historic vote by the full U.S. House as the Judiciary ...

December 13, 2019

Planned Parenthood shooting suspect insists he's competent

A man accused of killing three people and injuring nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado in 2015 appeared ...

December 13, 2019

Trump says US, China have reached deal; Sunday tariffs off

The Trump administration has dropped its plan to impose new tariffs on $160 billion of Chinese imports beginning Sunday under ...

December 13, 2019

Trump calls impeachment vote 'embarrassment' to nation

President Donald Trump declared Friday's House committee vote to impeach him ”an embarrassment to our country" and refused ...

December 13, 2019

Trump, leader of Paraguay discuss corruption, Venezuela

It was the briefest of moments in the Washington media spotlight for Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez.

December 13, 2019

General Motors to invest $1.5 billion in Missouri plant

General Motors will invest $1.5 billion to make what it calls the “next generation” of mid-sized pickup trucks at its plant ...

December 13, 2019

A tale of 2 migrations: Before and after new Trump policies

María Teresa Carballo was worried. She hadn’t heard from her daughter-in-law since the young woman and her two young children ...

December 13, 2019

Council: Horse manure still OK on Texas city's beaches

City leaders in Galveston have turned down a proposal that would require horseback riders to pick up what their animals leave ...

December 13, 2019

Johnson claims Brexit mandate with new conservative majority

Boris Johnson's gamble on early elections paid off as voters gave the UK prime minister a commanding majority to take the ...

December 13, 2019

Turkey protests US Senate vote recognizing Armenian genocide

Turkey summoned the ambassador from the United States on Friday to protest the U.S. Senate's approval of a resolution that ...

December 13, 2019

'Nuts!' US troops thwarted Hitler's last gamble 75 years ago

Pvt. Arthur Jacobson was seeking cover in the snow behind a tank moving slowly through the wooded hills of Belgium's ...

December 13, 2019

Pound jumps on Conservative win; trade talk lifts shares

The British pound edged higher Friday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party claimed a robust majority in ...

December 13, 2019

House panel delays historic Trump impeachment vote

The House Judiciary Committee abruptly postponed a historic vote late Thursday on articles of impeachment against President ...

December 13, 2019

Democratic candidates unite against Trump -- and little else

Democratic White House hopefuls agree President Donald Trump must be defeated next year. But the unity ends there. Sen.