WASHINGTON -- Tightening pressure on North Korea and those who might support it, the Trump administration Tuesday announced yet another round of economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

The Treasury Department blacklisted eight North Korean banks and 26 individuals, mostly North Koreans operating in China, Russia, Libya and the United Arab ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Republicans won less than half the vote for the Wisconsin state Assembly in 2012 -- but they still got more than 60 percent of the seats.

Democrats are blaming the voting map in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could change the rules for drawing election district lines around the country. The question is whether a redistricting map ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke walked into a big gathering of the National Petroleum Council on Monday already facing at least two government probes for his management of the department's workforce of 70,000 -- but that didn't stop him from bashing his employees.

Zinke told the gathering that he figured upon taking his post that ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Equifax announced Tuesday that its chief executive would step down effective immediately, weeks after the credit-reporting company disclosed a massive data breach.

Richard Smith, who also served as chairman of the Equifax board, is the latest casualty at the company as a result of the breach, which exposed the Social Security ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- When the Food and Drug Administration gives its OK for a new drug to be sold, it specifies the diseases or conditions for which the medicine has been approved. That does not mean doctors can't prescribe that prescription drug for other diseases and conditions. They do. All the time. And it's perfectly legal.

But for decades ...Read more

It's possible for a bad political process to yield a good result. There's even a saying for it -- the one comparing making laws to making sausages.

In the case of the latest Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, however, the process and substance have both been inexcusably reckless. Now that Republican senators' last-gasp effort ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Tiffany Tabares isn't sure what to do, so she sits quietly outside the 7-Eleven store where her 27-year-old son was fatally shot Friday morning during a confrontation with a Huntington Beach, Calif., police officer.

On Friday night, she slept on the sidewalk. She's left a few times, she said, but always found her way back to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A new study suggests that Democrats can re-energize African-American voters even if President Barack Obama isn't on the party's ticket. But that doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

The study, conducted by AFL-CIO affiliate Working America, analyzed why the black turnout in Ohio plummeted between 2012 and 2016, when election ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Nearly nine in 10 Americans support a program that allows undocumented immigrants who qualify for the DREAM Act to remain in the United States, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found.

Eighty-six percent of respondents said they supported some kind of program for "undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States if they arrived ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- America once again finds itself where it has been so often since the day Donald Trump descended an escalator to a podium at the tower named for him to announce his presidential candidacy: pulled into the vortex of partisanship as a master publicist plays notes of division and dispute.

President Trump's continued stoking of debate ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The Medical Board of California has suspended the license of former University of Southern California medical school dean Carmen Puliafito pending a final decision on his fitness to practice medicine.

The medical board opened an inquiry into Puliafito after a Los Angeles Times investigation found that he regularly used ...Read more