BEIJING -- China will suspend planned additional punitive tariffs on some U.S. products after "phase one" of a long-awaited trade deal was reached between the countries, state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.

Beijing had threatened to retaliate if the United States had gone ahead with imposing further tariffs on $160 billion of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Beverly Hills police are investigating vandalism of Nessah Synagogue on Saturday morning after an employee arrived at the place of worship at 7 a.m. to discover an open door, overturned furniture and damage to several relics.

Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime but report that there is no evidence to suggest ...Read more

POWAY, Calif. -- The abrupt withdrawal of a permit allowing Rep. Rashida Tlaib to speak at a San Diego County high school, reportedly to allow staff time to clean the facility before the holiday break, will not block the Democratic congresswoman's visit, organizers say.

The Poway Unified School District first approved the event Wednesday, then ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, whose election to a GOP-district last fall helped Democrats flip the House, plans to switch parties after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday, according to multiple Garden State sources.

Members of his party were already wishing him good riddance.

"This party switch is ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Shots rang out inside Cumberland Mall on Saturday afternoon as frightened shoppers scrambled for cover, police said.

The shooting was the result of a verbal altercation that occurred between two people in the mall's food court, said Cobb County police spokeswoman Sarah O'Hara.

The gunman fled the scene after the shooting, and ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- By invoking the Parkland school shooting, police officers may be going too far to justify their actions in a police shootout that left four people dead last week in Miramar, some experts say.

Officers contend that the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 has made them more aggressive on the streets. ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- U.S. lawmakers led by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley are negotiating a potential revival of expired tax breaks in last-minute negotiations over a government spending bill.

The talks, which were held on Saturday, are focused on reinstating the so-called tax extenders, a move that could be a boon to the biofuel, ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- The man shot and killed by police this week after, authorities say, he pointed a gun at an officer, sued police four years ago for excessive use of force.

Police identified the man on Friday as 24-year-old Cortez Bufford.

Bufford sued multiple St. Louis officers in 2015 after police pulled him out of his car, pushed him to the ...Read more

MADRID -- The leadership of the United Nations Climate Conference in Madrid made plans to issue more ambitious draft agreements on how to combat climate change on Saturday and has called on attendees to reach a compromise.

Andres Landerretche, the coordinator for the Chilean government, which is in charge of the conference, said the new drafts ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Sitting at a table in the doctor's lounge on Nov. 22 at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Dr. Hai Shao listened as a colleague described a puzzling situation.

Two patients, he learned, came in with apparent infections under their skin after using black tar heroin, but neither responded to the standard one-two punch of antibiotics ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Saturday's Army-Navy game kicked off the day after the House Judiciary Committee took a step toward impeaching President Donald Trump, but no one seemed in the mood to let politics intrude on tradition at South Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field.

"Everybody gets along. That's what's nice," said David Daniels, of Sea Isle ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- If Arthur "Squeaky" Kirk needs help at his Southwest Baltimore rec center, he knows who to call. Former Mayor Sheila Dixon always shows up when Kirk needs someone to speak at adult education classes or collect donations around Christmas-time.

Dozens of people packed into that recreation center on Saturday as Dixon formally launched...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Hilary Smith opened the front door of her St. Paul home and expected to find a package.

Instead, she found a neatly folded handwritten note on the steps right where the Amazon package had been delivered a few hours earlier.

"So just a quick little thank you for leaving me the opportunity of stealing your package," the note read....Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- It would not be accurate to say that Charles Strange felt a surge of anger when he read a newspaper report this week of evidence that U.S. military leaders misled the public about the war in Afghanistan.

No, for the Montgomery County father, the anger's always there, like a tiny earthquake rumbling below the surface. The ...Read more

ROME -- Italy's maverick Sardines movement, a silent rebellion against rightist League leader Matteo Salvini, packed a historic square in Rome on Saturday with its first national rally in a backlash against populism.

Tens of thousands of protesters, many waving fish placards, crowded the piazza outside the San Giovanni Basilica in the capital, ...Read more

When it comes to Green Deals, Europe has a lesson or two for liberal politicians in the U.S. trying to engineer far-reaching policies to address climate change.

An American lawmaker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, may have done more than anyone else to popularize the concept of a sweeping "green deal" to shift away from fossil fuels. But now the ...Read more