Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe renewed calls to abolish atomic weapons and warned of a worsening global security situation on the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, at a ceremony scaled back due to the coronavirus.

Elderly survivors, diplomats and politicians sat at socially distanced spaces in front of the bombed-out ...Read more

Twitter Inc. briefly blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign account, @TeamTrump, from posting on its social network for violating the company's policy on coronavirus misinformation.

Trump's personal account, @realDonaldTrump, had retweeted a post of a video that included an interview Trump did Wednesday with Fox News in which he said ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Republican repeatedly denounced by his own party -- and his own children -- for espousing bigoted views will be back on the Missouri ballot in November.

Steve West won the Missouri House District 15 primary race Tuesday night even after some family members campaigned against him. West edged out Adam ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, a central Illinois Republican locked in a tough battle for reelection, said he tested positive Wednesday for COVID-19 after holding recent in-district constituent events.

Davis, 50, a four-term congressman from Taylorville, said he had been having his temperature checked twice daily. After his temperature was recorded at...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Regional power companies, aided by out-of-state crews, on Wednesday raced to restore electrical service to more than 600,000 customers that was knocked out Tuesday by Tropical Storm Isaias, and say most customers will be back on line by Thursday or Friday. But some might be without power for days.

Peco, which serves Philadelphia...Read more

BALTIMORE -- A Maryland state trooper pleaded guilty to perjury and misconduct charges for fabricating drunken-driving arrests and issuing tickets to people who did not exist, in an apparent attempt to boost his stats.

The Attorney General's Office, which handled the case, said Cpl. John Sollon, 36, was assigned to the unit that specializes in ...Read more

Dakota Access pipeline staves off shutdown order once again

WASHINGTON -- The Dakota Access oil pipeline again staved off what would have been an unprecedented shutdown, with a court ruling that the Trump administration has to decide whether the conduit can operate while a more robust review is done.

Judges said Wednesday that they expect the ...Read more

PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Three 15-year-old boys are in custody after police said they jumped the wall into Mar-a-Lago after fleeing from police. They had a backpack that contained a Mini Draco 7.62 caliber AK-47, police said.

Three teenagers were charged with armed trespassing, armed burglary and resisting arrest without violence after they fled ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- If this latest prediction is accurate, the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season will be the second busiest on record, behind only 2005, the year that spawned Katrina and Wilma and so many other storms (28 in total) that they ran out of letters to name them.

The hurricane experts at Colorado State University said in their ...Read more

ATLANTA -- The former Atlanta officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks during an arrest attempt has filed a lawsuit against the mayor and interim police chief seeking to get his job back.

Garrett Rolfe contends his firing June 13, the day after Brooks died, violated the city's policy in the lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court. Rolfe ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday freed jails in Orange County, California, from a federal judge's order that required social distancing among inmates, regular testing and distribution of cleaning supplies and hand sanitizers.

Acting by a 5-4 vote, the justices granted an emergency appeal from the county's lawyers and put on ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a controversial proposal into law on Wednesday pushed by Republicans to grant police new protections despite stiff opposition from critics who said it creates a messy tangle of legal problems.

The measure, House Bill 838, was the most significant proposal left on Kemp's desk at the close of a 40-day ...Read more

Activist and nurse Cori Bush pulled off one of the biggest primary upsets of the election cycle on Tuesday. While her win showed that voters are clamoring for change, her victory also demonstrated that progressive insurgents and their liberal allies are embracing traditional campaign tactics -- and it's working.

Bush's shocking defeat of ...Read more

CHICAGO -- After weeks of defending a proposal to reopen Chicago Public Schools this fall, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and schools CEO Janice Jackson announced Wednesday that the new school year will begin with remote learning instead.

But it will feel different than in the spring, when CPS was "cobbling things together," Jackson said. Attendance will...Read more