WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration and House Democrats are on the verge of announcing a handshake deal on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, according to people familiar with the negotiations, paving the way for approval of the deal as early as this month while Democrats gear up for an impeachment vote.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court suggested Monday that individual members of Congress can't pursue a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over allegations he violated a constitutional ban on financially benefiting from the office.

An attorney for more than 200 lawmakers -- led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and House Judiciary ...Read more

CLARKSBORO, N.J. -- Tina Finocchiaro likes thinking back to the day last summer when Popeye the peacock stopped traffic. She heard honking outside her home in Clarksboro, Gloucester County, N.J., and saw cars gridlocked in both directions along the normally empty West Cohawkin Road.

Then a bright flash of blue, and iridescent feathers ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court left intact a Kentucky law that forces doctors who perform abortions to first show the woman an ultrasound and give her a detailed description of the fetus, even if she doesn't want to listen.

The justices, without comment Monday, rejected an appeal by the state's only abortion clinic and its three doctors, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- In 2018, Sacramento police arrested a man after saying they saw him throw a gun in a north Sacramento backyard. But just before police arrested the man, an officer on the scene acknowledged he was unsure whether they were taking the right person into custody, according to footage from the officer's body camera.

That man ...Read more

MIAMI -- The now-iconic white wall that once held a duct-taped banana at Art Basel Miami Beach was vandalized on Sunday afternoon, forcing exhibitors to cover up the writing in red lipstick with a white cardboard.

The banana, which has attracted hundreds after it sold to an art collector for $120,000, was replaced with the phrase "Epstien (sic)...Read more

A Georgia reporter spoke out after having her butt slapped on live television.

Alex Bozarjian, a reporter for WSAV in Savannah, was covering the Enmarket Savannah Bridge Run 5k and 10k live on Saturday morning.

A video of the live broadcast posted on Twitter shows participants running by her and making faces or waving at the camera.

A person ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea took its most personal swipe at President Donald Trump in more than two years, saying the U.S. leader's recent comments made him sound like a "heedless and erratic old man."

The statement released by North Korean official Kim Yong Chol on Monday was the latest in an rhetorical tit-for-tat ahead of Pyongyang's ...Read more

St. Michael School teachers Margaret "Rone" Leja and Elizabeth Kosteck left a Christmas party at an Irish pub in Orland Park, Ill., only a few minutes before Paul Burak, a former pastor of St. Michael Catholic Church who retired last year after a long and celebrated career.

The two women walked out the door just before 8 p.m. Wednesday after ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- Kamala Harris didn't do a great many things well in her crash-and-burn campaign for president. But her swift exit from the race was executed perfectly.

By quitting when she did, Harris avoided embarrassing losses in several early contests and, most important, her home state of California, preserving her status as a leading vice...Read more

CHICAGO -- More than 30 cars were set on fire early Monday morning on the Far South Side in what police are investigating as arson.

The fires broke out in two locations, police said. Around midnight, someone entered a fenced lot in the 300 block of E. 115th Street and set fire to eight vehicles.

Around 12:40 a.m., a second fire started in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Paul A. Volcker, the powerful Federal Reserve chairman whose grit and determination helped break the back of inflation in the early 1980s and put the American economy on a path to extended growth, has died. He was 92.

Volcker's career in economics and public service spanned seven decades and several administrations. In the early ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- As Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., made plans last week to leave Congress after pleading guilty to a felony campaign finance charge, the question of his legacy -- and the future of the district -- appears to be up in the air.

Critics might remember him for his controversial advocacy for service members charged with war crimes, his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A Methodist church in Claremont, Calif., unveiled a nativity scene Saturday night depicting Jesus, Mary and Joseph as refugees in cages, likening one of the most well-known images of the Christmas season to photos that have become synonymous with criticism of the Trump administration's border separation policies.

The display, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Only four months ago, the debate over whether to impeach President Trump deeply divided Democrats in Congress, pitting moderates in pro-Trump districts against progressives in liberal strongholds.

Now, with a vote on articles of impeachment expected within two weeks, the party is unified on whether Trump should be impeached. The ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The House Judiciary Committee, which is spearheading the Democratic-led impeachment drive, will move swiftly to draft articles of impeachment against President Trump, possibly by the end of this week, the panel's chairman said Sunday.

Trump's congressional supporters separately found themselves on the defensive over the disclosure...Read more

NASHUA, N.H. -- For some voters, seeing John Kerry and Joe Biden campaign together felt like deja vu.

In 2004, Kerry was the establishment Democrat who struggled in early-state polls but went on to defeat populist rivals for the nomination, propelled by a perception that he was the most "electable" option to face down a Republican incumbent ...Read more