WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's 2020 campaign manager wants the president to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and end special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference that intelligence agencies say was meant to help Trump's 2016 campaign.

"Time to fire Sessions. End the Mueller investigation. You can't obstruct something...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump unabashedly defended his policy of separating children from their migrant parents on the southern border, spreading blame Tuesday among Democrats, Mexico and child smugglers ahead of a meeting with congressional Republicans eager for him to end the mounting political crisis.

In a partisan speech to a ...Read more

Democrat Gavin Newsom has a dominant lead over Republican John Cox in California's race for governor, a contest where a significant number of voters appear to have cast ballots strategically to sway the outcome of the state's top-two primary, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.

Forty-five percent of registered voters who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The discovery of a panga-style boat that may have been used to smuggle immigrants onto an Orange County beach triggered the temporary lockdown of an elementary school as authorities searched the area for the vessel's occupants Tuesday morning.

The boat came ashore on Moro Beach, in Crystal Cove State Park, about 6:25 a.m. with ...Read more

Ever since the Texas legislature last year passed one of the country's most aggressive "anti-sanctuary city" laws, some enclaves have fought officials over the extent to which police can ignore federal immigration law.

The state regulation known as Senate Bill 4 has been described by opponents as the "show your papers" law for allowing officers...Read more

BEIJING -- Decades ago, former Chinese leader Mao Zedong described his country's relationship with North Korea as one of "lips and teeth" -- a loosely defined metaphor from an imperial era Mao used to define a close, yet different, relationship.

It perhaps remains an apt description of their relationship now.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's ...Read more

DURHAM, N.C. -- Three people were found dead early Tuesday in a swimming pool at an apartment complex in west Durham.

Police found two males and one female submerged at the Chapel Tower apartment complex after being called shortly after 3 a.m.

The three, whose ages and identities were not immediately disclosed, were pronounced dead at Duke ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A woman with stage 4 lung cancer was found dead six days after going missing from her Covington home. Investigators believe her painkillers may have made her a target.

Denita M. Satchwell, 58, was found dead on Friday in a wooded area near Rabbit Hash, according to news station WCPO. She was reported missing on June 11, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans this week will vote for the first time in their running eight-year majority on the divisive issue of legalizing certain undocumented immigrants.

The House is expected to hold Thursday votes on two immigration bills that address the legal status of so-called Dreamers, young undocumented immigrants brought to the U...Read more

WASHINGTON -- House Budget Chairman Steve Womack's fiscal 2019 budget resolution charts a path to balancing the budget in nine years through a combination of steep cuts in mandatory spending programs, freezing nondefense discretionary spending and banking on robust economic growth, according to a summary.

Under the draft fiscal blueprint, which...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- The death certificate for 10-year-old Jayden Auyeung, whose family went to court last month to challenge Children's Hospital of Philadelphia over its efforts to take him off life support, lists the day he died as May 15, when physicians found that he was brain dead. Yet, his grieving family says, his heart did not stop beating ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- The father of three children who were run over in a Minneapolis playground by an SUV driver fleeing two State Patrol squad cars is questioning the troopers' actions.

In the meantime, the most seriously injured of the kids from the June 11 crash near Jenny Lind Elementary School remains in critical condition Tuesday.

Kayden ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Drew Peterson is taking his case to the nation's highest court as the former Bolingbrook, Ill., police officer seeks to undo his murder conviction for the death of his third wife.

The Illinois Supreme Court has twice rejected Peterson's request for a new trial for the murder of his ex-wife Kathleen Savio, whose death was re-examined ...Read more