WASHINGTON--Alabama Rep. Martha Roby survived her Republican primary runoff Tuesday night, rebounding from her sharp criticism of President Donald Trump in 2016 that sparked several challenges this year.

With 47 percent of precincts reporting, Roby led with 67 percent of the vote to 33 percent for party-switching former Rep. Bobby Bright, when ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Republican Rep. Martha Roby won her Alabama primary runoff election Tuesday, beating back a challenger who had criticized her rejection of President Donald Trump during the 2016 election.

Roby's survival is a boon to the Republican establishment, which moved swiftly to back her in the wake of South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead to announce new Russian election-hacking indictments before his meeting with Vladimir Putin rather than after -- in the hopes it would strengthen his hand in the talks, according to accounts from people familiar with the decision.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein went to Trump last ...Read more

LOS ANGELES--A baby has died of whooping cough in San Bernardino County, health officials said Tuesday, marking the first infant fatality in California from the disease in two years.

The child's death does not signal the beginning of an outbreak, as officials have cautioned is possible this year. But they urged children and pregnant women to be...Read more

Schwarzenegger calls Trump a 'little wet noodle' and a 'fanboy' after Putin news conference

LOS ANGELES -- Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has lashed out at President Donald Trump's rebuke of American intelligence agencies during a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"President Trump, I just saw your press ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Conservatives are lining up behind Marco Rubio's plan to automatically sanction Russia for any future election meddling a day after President Donald Trump's meeting in Helsinki, Finland, with Russian President Vladimir Putin drew widespread derision from the entire political spectrum.

Trump supporters such as Fox News host Laura ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The senator who once dubbed Donald Trump an "orange-faced windbag" and the president -- who derided Rand Paul as "truly weird" -- are now fast friends, thanks to Paul's support for Trump's performance in talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Trump and Paul had clashed bitterly during the presidential campaign but they've ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Liver cancer death rates jumped 43 percent, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The research collected data from adults 25 and older in the United States from 2000 to 2016.

During this time, liver cancer rose from the ninth leading cause of cancer death in 2000 to the sixth ...Read more

Special counsel Robert Mueller asked a judge to give immunity to five people who may testify at the bank fraud trial starting next week against Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman.

Mueller didn't identify the witnesses, who haven't been charged. The five would invoke their constitutional right against self-...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The fight over who will lead House Democrats next year got its first public entrance Tuesday as Rep. Linda T. Sanchez made her bid official to lead the House Democratic Caucus.

Sanchez, of California, currently vice chairwoman of the Democratic Caucus, sent a letter to her colleagues Tuesday confirming her interest in moving up ...Read more

LOS ANGELES--A federal judge Tuesday lifted a controversial order requiring the Los Angeles Times to remove information in an article about a former Glendale police detective accused of working with the Mexican mafia.

U.S. District Judge John F. Walter had issued the order Saturday after The Times published information on its web site about a ...Read more

MIAMI -- Two small planes crashed in far west Miami-Dade County Tuesday afternoon, according to Miami-Dade police. Mayor Carlos Gimenez told The Miami Herald that three people were killed in a midair collision.

Gimenez said the two planes are from the Dean International flight school, which operates out of Miami Executive Airport in Southwest ...Read more

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Former U.S. President Barack Obama decried mounting global inequality and the emergence of a political order based on fear and resentment, calling for greater efforts to foster international cooperation.

"A politics of fear, and resentment" is building, Obama said in a speech in Johannesburg on Tuesday, a day before ...Read more

From around the world, the headlines were brutal.

"Best ally of Putin," said Tuesday's front page of France's sober-minded Le Monde.

"Trump makes it easy for Putin," echoed German's Die Welt.

"Trump 0, Putin 1," said the business daily Kauppalehti in Helsinki, the Finnish capital where Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald ...Read more

A wildfire burning outside Yosemite National Park continued its push south toward nearby rural communities as hundreds of firefighters flooded into the area Tuesday.

Amid high temperatures, low humidity and light winds, the Ferguson fire has scorched 12,525 acres south of Highway 140 west of the park and was 5 percent contained, the California ...Read more