WASHINGTON -- The lobbyist whose wife rented a bedroom in a Capitol Hill condo to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says he met with Pruitt last July with the charitable arm of pork processor Smithfield Foods Inc., despite earlier saying he hadn't lobbied the agency on behalf of clients in the past year.

Revelations that J. Steven Hart was present...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge in South Florida has asked the Dutch government for help in putting two bankers under oath in connection with a lawsuit involving the so-called Trump dossier.

In a decision on Friday, which wasn't available in court records until Monday, Judge Ursula Ungaro in Miami granted a request by the news site BuzzFeed and ...Read more

ROME -- President Donald Trump twice gave James Comey an alibi for why a salacious report about the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow couldn't be true: He never even spent the night in Russia during that trip, Trump told the former FBI director, according to Comey's memos about the conversations.

Yet the broad timeline of Trump's stay, ...Read more

SANAA, Yemen -- The political leader of Yemen's Houthi rebel group, Saleh al-Sammad, died in a strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition last week, the group said Monday.

Saleh al-Sammad was the head of the Houthi-led Supreme Political Council, the political body in charge of areas under the group's control.

Al-Sammad died on Thursday in ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- The Johns Hopkins reconstructive surgery team performed the world's first transplant of a penis and scrotum on a wounded soldier.

"It is our hope that such a life-changing transplant will allow him to regain urinary and sexual function and lead a normal life," said Dr. Richard Redett, an associate professor of plastic and ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Suppose you want to go to Cleveland from Chicago -- how fast can you get there?

A car ride takes around five hours. A plane takes an hour and 20 minutes, not counting waiting time in the airport.

Hyperloop technology, which involves a system composed of a vacuum and magnets to propel vehicle pods through a tube, could theoretically ...Read more

Californians should expect more dramatic swings between dry and wet years as the climate warms, according to a new study that found it likely that the state will be hit by devastating, widespread flooding in coming decades.

UC researchers in essence found that California's highly volatile climate will become even more volatile as human-caused ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Republicans are showing little appetite for big action in what may be their last months in full control of Congress.

The House took much of last week off and doesn't get back to Washington until Tuesday. The Senate is bogged down in confirmation hearings. And many lawmakers are already focused on their first election campaigns ...Read more

NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- Bill Cosby's lawyers cannot read old deposition testimony from Andrea Constand's friend at Cosby's sexual assault trial, a judge ruled Monday.

Members of Cosby's defense team said they had sought to find Sheri Williams to testify at the entertainer's retrial, but they could not locate her. Instead, they asked to use her ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. -- A video circulated by people identifying with the alt-right presents a compilation of often obscenity-laced moments from Fresno State professor Randa Jarrar's interviews and speeches.

The university is investigating the conduct of Jarrar, an award-winning author, who posted to Twitter that Barbara Bush was an "amazing racist" ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A Broward judge is under fire after she repeatedly snapped at a frail inmate who later died at her Lauderhill home.

Broward Chief Administrative Judge Jack Tuter said Saturday that he is telling Circuit Court Judge Merrilee Ehrlich not to return to the courthouse because of how she treated Sandra Twiggs, 59, who ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Barring a last-minute change of votes, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected Monday to reject secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo in an embarrassing rebuke of President Donald Trump's foreign policy.

It would be the first time in years that a nomination for such a high-level Cabinet position did not receive backing...Read more

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- Paraguay's electoral court declared Mario Abdo Benitez, a former senator from the ruling Colorado Party, the winner of Sunday's presidential election.

Abdo Benitez, 46, had 46.5 percent of the vote, with 97.3 percent of voting stations counted at 9:35 p.m., according to preliminary results from the electoral court. Former...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump pushed back Sunday against criticism that his decision to hold face-to-face talks with North Korea's leader amounted to a major concession to Pyongyang, with no gain for Washington in return.

"Wow, we haven't given up anything," the president tweeted from his Florida resort.

In the same tweet, Trump ...Read more