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Trump names hard-line trade official

President-elect working on policy agenda

Syrian rebels end talks on peace

BEIRUT – Syrian government forces pressed their offensive in a water-rich valley northwest of Damascus on Tuesday as 10 rebel groups announced they are suspending talks about planned peace n...

Hillary Clinton to attend Trump inauguration

WASHINGTON – Falling in line with tradition, Bill and Hillary Clinton plan to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration. It’s a decision that will put Hillary Clinton on the inaugural platform as h...

For Trump, the ‘Go Go 1980s’ still matter

Incoming president embraces era’s brash excess

Backtracking after Trump tweet, GOP won’t gut ethics office

WASHINGTON – House Republicans abruptly reversed themselves Tuesday under pressure from President-elect Donald Trump and dropped plans to gut an independent congressional ethics board. ...

IS suicide bomber kills 36 in Baghdad market

BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber driving a pickup loaded with explosives struck a bustling market in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 36 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group h...

U.S. Sen. Warren seeks to pull pot shops out of banking limbo

BOSTON – As marijuana shops sprout in states that have legalized the drug, they face a critical stumbling block – lack of access to the kind of routine banking services other businesses take...

Out of power, state Dems frustrated with national committee

In past 8 years, party lost 1,000 seats at state and national levels

In 2017, GOP Congress sees mandate to undo Obama’s agenda

Work to repeal Affordable Care Act will begin immediately

Bag that washed ashore is from plane carrying 6, police say

CLEVELAND – A bag that washed ashore near a private harbor has been confirmed as coming from a small plane carrying six people that disappeared over Lake Erie near Cleveland, authorities sai...

Vandalized Hollywood sign briefly reads ‘HOLLYWeeD’

LOS ANGELES – No, Los Angeles residents, it wasn’t your hangovers playing tricks on you. The Hollywood sign really did read “HOLLYWeeD” for a few hours on New Year’s Day. Police w...

Cologne police chief rejects ‘racial profiling’ claim Hundreds robbed, sexually assaulted during 2016 New Year’s celebration

BERLIN – Cologne’s chief of police dismissed claims of racial profiling Sunday after officers detained hundreds of North African men in an effort to prevent a repeat of sexual assaults durin...