MIAMI -- A former Russian Olympic official once publicly ridiculed by President Vladimir Putin was arrested Tuesday morning by U.S. immigration agents at his South Florida home.

Agents detained Akhmed Bilalov, a onetime deputy head of the Russian Olympic Committee who fled the country after Putin chastised him for construction delays and ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Before Joe Biden blasted Donald Trump on Tuesday for calling his possible impeachment a "lynching," the Democratic presidential candidate decried Bill Clinton's impeachment using the same racially tinged term.

"Even if the president should be impeached, history is going to question whether or not this was just a partisan lynching ...Read more

Turkish bank is 'fugitive' in sanctions evasion case, US says

NEW YORK -- A U.S. prosecutor called Turkey's Halkbank a "fugitive" after lawyers for the state-owned bank failed to appear in an American courtroom on charges that it evaded sanctions on Iran. Turkiye Bank Halkasi AS was charged last week with scheming to help Iran tap $20 billion ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The anonymous writer behind the "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" op-ed published last year in The New York Times has written a forthcoming tell-all book.

The publisher, Twelve Books, announced Tuesday that the book titled "A Warning" will offer "an unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats filed a legal brief in federal court on Tuesday asserting that President Donald Trump's promotion of his Doral resort for the G-7 summit was further evidence he has violated the Emoluments Clause, despite his decision to reverse course.

The initial announcement last week -- from Trump's acting chief of ...Read more

VISTA, Calif. -- An Iraq war veteran who said he killed a stranger in Oceanside at the behest of a secret agency that controlled his brain was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The sentence for Mikhail Schmidt comes less than a month after a Superior Court jury in North County found Schmidt guilty of first-...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and the rest of the "Sesame Street" gang will be putting down new roots in Southern California in 2021: SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. plans to turn its Aquatica water slide venue in Chula Vista into a new Sesame Place theme park.

Orlando, Fla.-based SeaWorld and Sesame Workshop, the educational ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wouldn't say Tuesday whether he met with two associates of Rudy Giuliani recently arrested on campaign finance fraud charges since he became governor.

But one of the men -- he didn't say which -- wanted to be on a governor's transition committee for public safety but that request was denied, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's description of his impeachment travails as a "lynching" is by no means the first time a public figure has used that term to attack critics.

But there's one thing Trump, a self-described billionaire who's spoken repeatedly -- if not always accurately -- about his European roots, does not have in common with...Read more

NEW YORK -- A U.S. prosecutor called Turkey's Halkbank a "fugitive" after lawyers for the state-owned bank failed to appear in an American courtroom on charges that it evaded sanctions on Iran. Turkiye Bank Halkasi AS was charged last week with scheming to help Iran tap $20 billion in frozen overseas accounts.

The case was filed amid a flurry ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Despite explosive growth in other areas of the country since 2010, about 80 congressional districts have lost significant population over the decade -- leaving many looking for help from a federal government consumed by impeachment.

Some districts may have lost 30,000 or more people through 2018, many of them in manufacturing and ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A Russia-linked group is believed to have utilized Iranian tools to conduct cyber attacks against dozens of countries, in an apparent effort to mask their identities, according to joint advisories by the U.S. and the U.K.

The group, known as Turla, used tools from suspected Iran-based hacking groups and deployed them against old ...Read more