MEXICO CITY (AP) – A person close to the self-exiled former President Evo Morales of Bolivia said Friday that the former leader is in Cuba…
North Dakota seeks input on arming responders in schools
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota education officials are seeking public input on new rules that have been created to govern a program to that…
Former envoy: Putin likely ‘joyful’ about Ukraine theory
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – President Donald Trump’s former ambassador to Russia said Vladimir Putin is likely “joyful” about the renewed prominence of a debunked…
Democrats move toward impeaching Trump, with scant grumbling
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Democrats are charging toward impeaching President Donald Trump but not without pockets of division, as lawmakers who began the summer divided…
California congressman Duncan Hunter to quit after holidays
LOS ANGELES (AP) – U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California will resign after the holidays, following his guilty plea this week to illegally using campaign…
Joe Biden ‘look, fat’ remark denied by campaign
A Biden campaign advisor insisted Thursday that the former vice president never fat-shamed a man who tangled with him during an Iowa campaign event, even…
Remaining Democratic presidential candidates court Congressional Black Caucus members
Rep. Barbara Lee of California, one of the more influential black members of Congress, responded with an emphatic, “Oh, yes,” when asked whether she was…
Mike Pence surprises opioid crisis families at White House gathering
Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday told Americans who lost family members to the opioids crisis that President Trump “will not rest or relent” in…
Inside the Beltway: A pollster’s warning about outrage politics
There is a lot of squawking and snarling about politics out there — and a lot of melancholy tales of families and friends who part…
Jim Inhofe: ‘Skinny’ National Defense Authorization Act possible
Congressional negotiators face a make-or-break weekend to nail down a major defense policy and spending bill by Monday’s deadline to vote before the looming holiday…