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September 16, 2017

Tax cuts quiet once-deafening GOP call for fiscal discipline

Republicans spooked world markets in their ardor to cut spending when Democrat Barack Obama occupied the White House.

September 14, 2017

Trump delivers shock rebuke to Colombia over cocaine surge

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening that he may decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the ...

September 13, 2017

Longest serving New Mexico senator leaves bipartisan legacy

Pete V. Domenici, the son of Italian immigrants who rose to become a power broker in the U.S. Senate, died Wednesday in New ...

September 07, 2017

Trump wants Democratic support for tax pitch

President Donald Trump made an overt pitch for Democrats to support his tax overhaul plan, singling out a North Dakota ...

September 07, 2017

AP FACT CHECK: Trump on taxes

President Donald Trump headed to North Dakota to discuss his tax overhaul plans Wednesday, but not all of his speech lined ...

September 07, 2017

Trump courts Heitkamp in North Dakota tax pitch

President Donald Trump made an overt pitch Wednesday for Democrats to support his tax overhaul plan, singling out a North ...

September 07, 2017

Man fatally shot after ordering California workers to ground

A man who simulated having a gun with a can inside a paper bag followed an employee into a state office building in downtown ...

August 26, 2017

Trump's low approval ratings set an unwanted record

Donald Trump started as the most unpopular new president in the history of modern polling. After seven months, things have ...

August 26, 2017

Trump setting records for low presidential approval

Donald Trump started as the most unpopular new president in the history of modern polling. After seven months, things have ...

August 25, 2017

Ronald Reagan to be inducted in US Labor Hall of Honor

Former President Ronald Reagan, a one-time Hollywood union leader who fired 11,000 air traffic controllers and crushed their ...

August 24, 2017

Cross-burning victims wonder why priest is confessing now

Phillip and Barbara Butler hadn't given much thought to the man who burned a cross on their front lawn 40 years ago.

August 24, 2017

Cross-burning victims to priest: Apology is not enough

Phillip and Barbara Butler hadn't given much thought to the man who burned a cross on their front lawn 40 years ago.

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August 22, 2017

Priest urges haters to repent; reveals his Ku Klux Klan past

A Roman Catholic priest in Virginia is taking a leave of absence after disclosing he once burned crosses as a member of the ...

August 16, 2017

Moderate Utah mayor wins 3-way GOP primary for US House seat

The mayor in the Mormon stronghold of Provo won a three-way Republican primary Tuesday in the race to replace former Rep.

August 11, 2017

CNN fires commentator Jeffrey Lord over Nazi salute tweet

CNN fired conservative commentator Jeffrey Lord on Thursday after he tweeted a Nazi salute at a critic. A network ...

August 11, 2017

The Latest: Lord says he respects CNN, disagrees with firing

The Latest on CNN's firing of conservative commentator Jeffrey Lord after he tweeted a Nazi slogan at a critic (all times ...

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August 09, 2017

Trump has escaped Washington, but don't call it a vacation

President Donald Trump would like to interrupt his vacation to deliver the following message: Don't call this a vacation.

August 04, 2017

Flouting his own advice, Trump will take extended vacation

Donald Trump once questioned the wisdom of taking vacations. "What's the point?" he asked. But now the president is getting ...

August 03, 2017

Miller comments on Lazarus poem echo far-right opinions

When senior White House aide Stephen Miller disputed the significance of Emma Lazarus' poem on the Statue of Liberty, he ...