WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump ratcheted up pressure on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fire the acting FBI director, who has been a periodic target of conservative attacks.

In two tweets Wednesday morning, Trump criticized Sessions for not replacing Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, whose wife ran for office in Virginia as a Democrat ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that the U.S. military would not allow transgender troops to serve, citing the "tremendous medical costs and disruption."

In a series of tweets, Trump tweeted that the U.S. government "will not accept transgender individuals to serve in the military in any capacity."

The president said ...Read more

CANBERRA, Australia -- South Australia has always been a bit different: it's the driest state on the Earth's driest inhabited continent, the world's first place to let women stand for election and the nation's only settlement to exclude convicts.

Nowadays it's a testing ground for the opposition Labor party to show how it could govern if it ...Read more

LOS ANGELES--The police officer who last year questioned the then-dean of University of Southern California's medical school about his role in the drug overdose of a young woman expressed skepticism at Dr. Carmen Puliafito's account, according to an audio recording that was made by the officer and released Tuesday.

Puliafito told the officer he...Read more

MIAMI -- The commander of the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo learned in advance that the band hired to entertain troops on the Fourth of July had a notorious link to his base's terror prison and went ahead for morale reasons to have Drowning Pool play as a prelude to a "heart-pounding fireworks" show.

Moreover, a statement issued on behalf of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump, echoing his populist 2016 campaign, mixed the politics of fear and bold promises as he returned to the campaign trail Tuesday evening in Ohio.

As he delivered parts of his remarks in Youngstown, it well could have been July 2016 with then-Republican nominee Trump at the podium. The world is more unsafe than...Read more

JERUSALEM -- Violent clashes broke out in Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday evening as Muslim worshippers kept up mass demonstrations and refused to enter a sacred plaza outside a contested shrine, even after Israel removed the metal detectors that had sparked the unrest.

The move by Israel was a bid to defuse tensions that have sown a tide of ...Read more

Shortly after Barry Goldwater was named the Republican presidential nominee in 1964, Fact magazine published an article headlined, "1,189 Psychiatrists say Goldwater is Psychologically Unfit to be President!"

Goldwater sued the magazine for libel, and in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association implemented an ethics rule that prohibits ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- African-American activists are issuing a terse warning to the Democratic Party: Don't ignore us while pursuing the white working class voters who eluded the party in the 2016 elections.

That message came emphatically and clearly from attendees at the NAACP's annual convention here Wednesday, a day after congressional Democratic ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Apple Inc. has committed to build three "big" manufacturing plants in the U.S., a move that would represent a major change in strategy for the world's most valuable company and boost the White House's long-held promise to return overseas factory jobs to America.

Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for President Donald Trump say he had a First Amendment right to urge his supporters to eject "disruptive protesters" from his campaign rallies, including the "right to use reasonable force" to remove those who are not welcome.

The legal claim came in an emergency motion asking a U.S. appeals court in Ohio to throw out a ...Read more