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Tourists watch as cliff near volcano collapses

HONOLULU – A section of sea cliff above a massive “firehose” lava flow on Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano has collapsed and splashed into the ocean as tourists and geologists watched. A ...

Education pick heads to Senate for final vote

WASHINGTON – Betsy DeVos’s embattled nomination for education secretary cleared another hurdle in the Senate on Friday as Republicans overpowered fierce resistance from Democrats. ...

White House eases freeze on EPA approving contracts

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration said Friday it has thawed its temporary freeze on contract and grant approvals at the Environmental Protection Agency, with all $3.9 billion in planned ...

Trump takes aims at financial rules

President says Dodd-Frank law is ‘disaster’

Attack at Louvre casts pall over Paris

Police believe attacker is an Egyptian

Israeli settlers dismiss White House criticism

JERUSALEM –Israeli settlers on Friday shrugged off White House criticism of settlement construction, convinced they have the sympathies of President Donald Trump. The Palestinians, still war...

U.S. announces new sanctions against Iran

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on Friday imposed sanctions on 13 people and a dozen companies in response to Iran’s recent ballistic missile test, increasing pressure on Tehran withou...

Trump vows to repeal political limits on churches

WASHINGTON – Warning that religious freedom is “under threat,” President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal the Johnson Amendment, an IRS rule barring pastors from endorsing candidates fr...

Trump pushes Senate on nominee

Backs ‘nuclear option’ to confirm Gorsuch

Did Trump threaten to send troops to Mexico?

He warned counterpart to deal with ‘bad hombres’

GOP muscles Trump picks through panel

WASHINGTON – In the latest intensification of partisan hostilities, Republicans rammed President Donald Trump’s picks to be Treasury and health secretaries through a Senate committee on Wedn...

Obama loyalists challenging Trump

Ex-White House aides speak out on early actions