JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – In fisherman Saimin’s fly-strewn riverside slum, less than an hour’s drive from Indonesia’s presidential palace, much of the age-old problems President…
Asylum-seeking Mexicans are more prominent at US border
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – Lizbeth Garcia tended to her 3-year-old son outside a tent pitched on a sidewalk, their temporary home while they wait…
Rooney steps out: GOP member ‘thinking’ about impeachment
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump gave an atta-boy to Republican Rep. Francis Rooney last year on the congressman’s home turf in swing state Florida.…
Man convicted of killing senator’s nephew gets life sentence
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – A man convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a nephew of Montana Sen. Jon Tester has been sentenced to…
Diplomat said to have questioned optics of Hunter Biden job
WASHINGTON (AP) – Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent told impeachment investigators this week that he had raised concerns in 2015 about Hunter Biden,…
James Mattis zings Donald Trump at Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
NEW YORK — Former Defense Secretary James Mattis hit back at his old boss at a white-tie gala in New York on Thursday, saying that…
China quarterly economic growth lowest in quarter-century amid Trump trade war
BEIJING — China’s economic growth slowed to 6% over a year ago in the latest quarter, its lowest level in at least 26 years, amid…
Rick Perry ‘couldn’t have done a better job,’ Donald Trump says
President Trump told Texas supporters late Thursday that Rick Perry, their former governor, has done a terrific job and plans to step down as his…
Adam Schiff censure vote delayed after Elijah Cummings death
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs will delay the vote on his resolution to censure Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff in light of Oversight Chairman…
Inside the Beltway: Concern over ‘deep state’ still percolating in America
The political world continues to quake with fake news, tales of Russian collusion, liberal bias in the media, a shrill election campaign plus endless, confabulated…