LOS ANGELES -- Six months ago, federal agents watched Gordon Caplan and his daughter walk into a West Hollywood school where a 36-year-old man would fix the girl's college entrance exam. Caplan, the co-chairman of an international law firm, envisioned his daughter attending an elite school -- maybe even his alma mater, Cornell University.

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WASHINGTON -- Numerous House Democrats on Tuesday demanded immediate impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump amid White House resistance to their investigations, a marked increase in support for launching an effort to remove the president from office.

The calls came in response to former White House counsel Donald McGahn's ...Read more

CHICAGO -- A former appellate judge pushing for a special prosecutor in the Jussie Smollett case on Tuesday filed a flurry of paperwork, including a bid to block Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx from using any of her office's attorneys to represent her in the legal fight.

"Tax supported attorneys are to do the business of the people -- not...Read more

Judge allows lawsuit seeking paper ballots in Georgia to advance

ATLANTA -- A lawsuit attempting to require paper ballots in Georgia elections can move ahead, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg rejected a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which alleges that the state's current electronic voting machines are unsafe ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Democrats were still clamoring for answers about U.S. intentions in Iran, even after a closed-door briefing from Trump administration officials about heightened tensions in the region.

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and other intelligence officials spoke with House Republicans and ...Read more

It was lighthearted fun: children singing and dancing to a popular Persian pop song. But when hard-line Iranian authorities saw the videos, uploaded to social media by teachers at several schools, they were not amused and unleashed their wrath.

"The enemy is trying different ways to create anxiety among the people, including by spreading these ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks and Ann Donaldson, the former chief of staff for ex-White House counsel Don McGahn, were issued subpoenas Tuesday to provide documents and testimony to the House Judiciary Committee for its probe into corruption and obstruction by President Donald Trump and his associates.

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ATLANTA -- Two weeks after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a restrictive anti-abortion bill, a few hundred people gathered outside the state Capitol vowing to continue the fight to stop the pending law from taking effect.

Part of a national day of action, abortion rights groups including Planned Parenthood Southeast, the American Civil Liberties...Read more

WASHINGTON -- California Sen. Kamala Harris and other Democrats running for president have promised aggressive action to stem the nation's epidemic of gun violence if they win the White House in 2020.

But when it comes to restricting gun access, experts say executive action is unlikely to make a significant dent in the problem, and any steps ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Cannabis industry investors, business owners and legalization advocates had met before to discuss the legal and regulatory headaches of operating in a world that is licensed and regulated by states but is illegal under federal law.

But what made those at Tuesday's gathering describe it as a public relations milestone was its ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Democrats raised concerns Tuesday that the Transportation Security Administration's ongoing problems with high turnover rates could worsen after the Trump administration announced it would send 400 TSA workers to the southwest border to help with the migrant surge.

"I think what I see now is continued manufacturing of a crisis, to...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The city of Beverly Hills is expected to approve what officials say is the most stringent tobacco ban in the country, eliminating the sale of virtually all recreational nicotine products -- with one very Beverly Hills exception.

For an elite group of aficionados, hundreds of whom swamped committee meetings and wrote the city in ...Read more

DETROIT -- The first of 500 U.S. Ford Motor Co. salaried employees are expected to be notified in meetings Tuesday that they're being let go.

Ford's operations in Dearborn were quiet Tuesday morning ahead of the last round of white-collar job cuts, with parking lots filling and employees filing in as usual.

CEO Jim Hackett notified employees ...Read more

ATLANTA -- A lawsuit attempting to require paper ballots in Georgia elections can move ahead, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg rejected a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which alleges that the state's current electronic voting machines are unsafe and should be replaced with hand-marked paper ballots.

Georgia's 17...Read more

BOGOTA, Colombia -- As the death toll and hardships for fleeing Venezuelans continue to mount, the United Nations on Tuesday asked the region -- once again -- to treat the migrants as refugees and refrain from deporting them.

In a statement, the U.N. Refugee Agency said that at least 3.7 million people have left the country in recent years and ...Read more