Nation & World

By Lisa Mascaro The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is reviving his border wall fight, preparing a new budget that will seek $8.6 billion for the U.S-Mexico barrier while imposing steep spending cuts to other…

By Catherine Lucey and Zeke Miller Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has beefed up its legal team. Its political team is ready to distract and disparage. And President Donald Trump is venting against Democratic prying.…

By Mary Clare Jolonick and Eric Tucker Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, turned over documents to the House intelligence committee on Wednesday that show edits to a false written…

By Meg Kinnard The Associated Press Presidential candidate Cory Booker on Saturday urged fellow Democrats not to be distracted by vitriol directed at the party's candidates by the man whom they seek to replace. Asked during a…

By Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House on Wednesday approved a measure requiring federal background checks for all firearms sales and transfers, the first major gun control legislation…

By Rod McGuirk The Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the…

By Paul Wiseman and Darlene Superville Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Relief swept across world financial markets Monday after President Donald Trump pushed back a March 2 deadline in a trade dispute with China. But the respite…

By Juana Summers The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he is running for president in 2020. "Our campaign…

By Alan Fram, Catherine Lucey and Andrew Taylor The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress lopsidedly approved a border security compromise Thursday that would avert a second painful government shutdown, but a new confrontation…

By Jill Colvin, Andrew Taylor, Alan Fram and Jonathan Lemire The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Under mounting pressure from his own party, President Donald Trump appeared to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement…

By Jonathan Lemire and Nicholas Riccardi The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With a fierce denunciation of late-term abortions, President Donald Trump is making a move to re-energize evangelical voters whose support will be vital in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Cory Booker on Friday declared his bid for the presidency in 2020 with a sweeping call to unite a deeply polarized nation around a "common purpose." The New Jersey Democrat, who is the second black candidate…

By Deb Reichmann The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration claims of progress in talks with the Taliban have sparked fears even among the president's allies that his impatience with the war in Afghanistan will lead him…

By Blake Nicholson Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The deadly deep freeze enveloping the Midwest sent temperatures plunging Wednesday to rival some of the most frigid spots in the world, triggering widespread closures of schools…

By Will Weissert Associated Press FORT HANCOCK, Texas (AP) — Donald Trump didn't carry many parts of Texas' heavily Democratic areas along the border with Mexico, but he won remote Hudspeth County thanks to people like Terry Rose. And…