WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump, moving to amp up pressure on China to make trade concessions, threatened late Monday to impose tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese imports and to double that amount if Beijing retaliates with countermeasures.

Trump's announcement marks the latest escalation of a brewing trade conflict with ...Read more

TOPEKA, Kan. -- A federal judge has struck down a Kansas voter citizenship law that Secretary of State Kris Kobach had personally defended.

Judge Julie Robinson also ordered Kobach, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, to take more hours of continuing legal education after he was found in contempt and was frequently chided ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has agreed to "alter" the 1953 armistice halting the Korean War if North Korea gives up its nuclear weapons, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, revealing an apparent promise from Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un that wasn't announced at the time.

"He has made very clear his commitment to fully denuclearize ...Read more

In-flight sexual assault reports on the rise, FBI says

BALTIMORE -- The number of sexual assault reports aboard airplanes has grown by nearly two-thirds in recent years, according to the FBI.

Sixty-three cases of in-flight sexual assault were reported to federal authorities in the last fiscal year, the FBI said. That's up from the 38 cases ...Read more

Florida stands to lose more homes -- and real estate value -- to sea-rise damage than any other state in the nation this century, according to a new study.

That conclusion, in a report compiled by the Union of Concerned Scientists, was reached using housing information from Zillow and a flood model from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Northwestern University has rescinded an honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby, marking the first time the institution has taken such action.

Trustees voted unanimously Monday to invalidate Cosby's honorary doctorate of humane letters awarded in 1997, citing years of sexual assault allegations culminating in his April conviction for ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The University of California, San Diego has discovered the world's first known nursery for manta rays, an idyllic spot in the Gulf of Mexico where the "gentle giants" approach divers along colorful reefs that seem drawn from the imagination of Walt Disney.

An exploration team led by Josh Stewart, who is finishing up his doctorate ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- The number of sexual assault reports aboard airplanes has grown by nearly two-thirds in recent years, according to the FBI.

Sixty-three cases of in-flight sexual assault were reported to federal authorities in the last fiscal year, the FBI said. That's up from the 38 cases reported in the 2014 fiscal year, according to the agency, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- A transgender woman accused of trying to burn a flag in a crowd at Philadelphia's Pride parade says authorities referred to her by male pronouns, used her birth name, Ryan -- even though she told them it was her "dead name" and she goes by ReeAnna -- and ignored her pleas not to be housed with male inmates.

"Aside from the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un offered a small ray of hope that North Korea might ease its nuclear threat. But left untouched in the talks was Kim's arsenal of chemical weapons, an omission that baffles some security analysts, given that Pyongyang stands accused of using such armaments and sharing the technology ...Read more

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo amplified President Donald Trump's tough line in a brewing trade war with China in a speech on Monday, saying U.S. action was long overdue and calling Chinese appeals for greater economic openness "a joke."

"Chinese leaders over these past few weeks have been claiming openness and globalization, but it's a joke," ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- The judge who sent Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill to prison last fall for violating the terms of his 2008 conviction on drug and gun charges says she needs more time to decide whether he should get a new trial.

Common Pleas Court Judge Genece Brinkley said at the end of a hearing Monday that she wanted to read more statements and...Read more

Fariborz Karami had been held in Australia's offshore detention system for five years when he killed himself in his mouldy tent on the Pacific island of Nauru Friday. Less than a month earlier, a 52-year-old member of Burma's Rohingya ethnic group died after throwing himself from a vehicle near Australia's other offshore detention center in ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump faced a growing backlash Monday over his administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that since April has separated at least 2,000 children from their parents crossing the southern border, even as he continued to falsely blame Democrats for the hard-line actions.

Some Republican allies in Congress, ...Read more