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Trump fires watchdog who handled Ukraine complaint

President Donald Trump abruptly fired the inspector general of the intelligence community, sidelining an independent watchdog ...

Wisconsin limps toward Tuesday election despite virus fears

Wisconsin's attempt to conduct an election in the midst of a coronavirus crisis lurched forward Friday, with a Democratic ...

Small business relief program launches, hits snags

The federal government’s $349 billion relief program for small businesses got off to a rocky start Friday as hundreds of ...

Arizona Senate campaigns get creative amid virus scare

Martha McSally is volunteering at the Salvation Army. Mark Kelly is using his background as an astronaut to entertain kids ...

McConnell, Pelosi signal more virus aid likely from Congress

In a shift, the top leaders in Congress made it clear Friday there will be another coronavirus rescue package amid the stark ...

Democrats elevate health care as virus-era campaign argument

Democrats are zeroing in on health care as one of the few issues that might resonate among Americans who have largely shelved ...

Trump nominates McConnell ally to powerful appeals court

President Donald Trump is nominating a 37-year-old judge and former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a seat ...

Trump campaign calls Sessions 'delusional' in letter

President Donald Trump’s campaign has sent a letter to Jeff Sessions, his former attorney general now running for a U.S.

Biden wants to talk to Trump about lessons from past crises

Joe Biden said Thursday that he wants to speak with President Donald Trump in the hope that the president can “learn some ...

Record jobless claims but Dems, GOP divide over rescue bill

Fresh data on Thursday that detailed a record avalanche of unemployment claims offered no signs of easing the rift between ...

Iran parliament speaker, Israeli health minister have virus

Iran’s parliament speaker has contracted the new coronavirus, the country's highest-ranking government figure yet to catch ...

Trump's contradictory views on China shift as crisis grows

President Donald Trump has held an unequivocal position about China and the coronavirus — several of them. Trump initially ...

Apply here: How to spend $2.2 trillion — and rescue economy

President Donald Trump aims to shovel $2.2 trillion into the U.S. economy over the next few weeks to try to cushion its free ...

Asian stocks mixed as economic toll of virus worsens

Asian stocks were mixed Thursday after a White House warning that as many as 240,000 Americans might die of the coronavirus ...

AP-NORC poll: Less than half back Trump's pandemic response

Americans give high marks to state and local governments for their handling of the fast-moving coronavirus pandemic that has ...

Iowa governor got 2nd chance; she thinks felons should, too

Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, will never forget the summer night 20 years ago when a state trooper stopped her ...

Georgia Sen. Loeffler gets renewed scrutiny over stock moves

The husband of Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler recently acquired as much as $415,000 in stock in DuPont de Nemours, a chemical ...

Federal judge signals he won't postpone Wisconsin election

A federal judge signaled Wednesday that he won't postpone or make any major changes to Wisconsin's presidential primary to ...

Rural areas fear spread of virus as more hospitals close

As the coronavirus spread across the United States, workers at the lone hospital in one Alabama county turned off beeping ...

Census Day arrives with US almost paralyzed by coronavirus

Census Day — the date used to determine where a person lives for the once-a-decade count — arrived Wednesday with a nation ...