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Landmark environmental protections being rolled back
WASHINGTON (AP) — One after another, landmark U.S. protections for climate, air and land are in the crosshairs of the Trump administration as his agency leaders move past early fumbles and scandals to start
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US: Trump lawyer met Russian who offered ‘political synergy’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in touch as far back as 2015 with a Russian who offered “political synergy” with the Trump election campaign and proposed a meeting
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Prosecutors: Cohen’s claims of reform ‘self-serving’
NEW YORK (AP) — For weeks, Michael Cohen sought to portray himself as a man who’d found his “true north” after years of shady business dealings and pit-bull loyalty to President Donald Trump. Prosecutors
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Top Takeaways: Prosecutors detail key pieces in Russia probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Key pieces of the special counsel’s Russia investigation appear to be falling into place. In three court filings Friday, prosecutors for the first time connected President Donald Trump to a crime
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Prosecutors: Illegal hush-money paid at Trump’s ‘direction’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Friday that President Donald Trump directed illegal payments to buy the silence of two women whose claims of extramarital affairs threatened his presidential campaign, the first time
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Thousands salute Bush funeral train 4141 on final Texas ride
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Thousands waved and cheered along the route as funeral train No. 4141 — for the 41st president — carried George H.W. Bush’s remains to their final resting place on
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Absentee vote changes may have invited ‘ballot harvesting’
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Changes made to absentee voting procedures five years ago in North Carolina may have emboldened workers to run the type of illegal “ballot-harvesting” operation alleged to have been used in
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Landmark protections falling for air, land, and soon, water
WASHINGTON (AP) — One after another, landmark U.S. protections for climate, air and land are in the crosshairs of the Trump administration as his agency leaders move past early fumbles and scandals to start
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Effort to weaken governor stirs separation-of-powers debate
MILWAUKEE (AP) — If Democrats sue to prevent Republicans from diluting the powers of Wisconsin’s new governor and attorney general, the lawsuits will probably center on one question: Are lawmakers usurping authority that belongs
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‘Dumb’ and ‘lazy’: Trump responds to Tillerson criticism
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is responding to criticism from his former secretary of state Rex Tillerson by calling Tillerson “dumb as a rock” and “lazy as hell.” During a rare public appearance
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