WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump again refused to apologize for promoting false accusations against five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted for the 1989 rape of a jogger in New York City, even though they were exonerated by DNA evidence.

Trump has long been attached to the case of the "Central Park Five" because he ran a full-...Read more

BOGOTA, Colombia -- A Venezuelan court has ordered that a case against key opposition figure Roberto Marrero move to trial, on the eve of the visit of U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who had criticized his imprisonment.

The court mandated that Marrero be kept in jail, despite the release of three other political prisoners shortly ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats offered another rebuke to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, this time by voting to block the State Department from spending taxpayers' money at his domestic and overseas golf clubs and hotels.

The House voted 231-187 to adopt an amendment that would prohibit the department from spending funds at any of the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans and Democrats reached a deal on $4.6 billion in emergency funds to deal with a surge in migration at the U.S. border with Mexico, people familiar with the deal said Tuesday.

President Donald Trump requested the funds May 1, including $3.3 billion to be used to shelter undocumented migrants at the southern border...Read more

A high-level delegation from the Organization of American States is headed on Wednesday to Haiti, where a solution to a brewing political crisis appears increasingly unclear amid ongoing violent protests and hardened demands for the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, who is implicated in a corruption scandal.

The visit is being led by U.S....Read more

CHICAGO -- Poor communication between law enforcement and medical staff violated patient rights standards in the case of a newborn who was cut from his mother's womb and brought to a suburban hospital with another woman, according to a federal inspection.

The finding was included in a six-page report on the inspection released by the Centers ...Read more

Michael Avenatti's trial date set in Nike extortion case

NEW YORK -- Attorney Michael Avenatti will face trial Nov. 12 after being charged with trying to shake down Nike, a judge ordered Tuesday.

Prosecutors expect the trial will last roughly a week. Avenatti is accused of demanding around $25 million from Nike and threatening to go public ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A cancer patient sued the University of California, Los Angeles and Dr. James Heaps on Tuesday, accusing the former campus gynecologist of repeatedly sexual assaulting her during her two years of treatment.

The 44-year-old woman was battling mesothelioma when, in October 2015, she went to Heaps for surgery, she said.

During four...Read more

At least eight Americans have died in their rooms at resorts in the Dominican Republic under somewhat mysterious circumstances since the start of the year, according to news reports. Some of the victims are said to have consumed alcohol before falling ill.

Besides the deaths, dozens of people have reported getting sick while at island resorts, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan withdrew his already-troubled candidacy to lead the Pentagon full time on Tuesday after press accounts disclosed domestic violence incidents involving his ex-wife and son nearly a decade ago.

President Donald Trump announced Shanahan's abrupt withdrawal, tweeting that the former Boeing Co....Read more

WASHINGTON -- The president was named Reagan, and Iran and Iraq were locked in a horrific war with each other over control of land and the Persian Gulf.

The United States and other nations entered the fringes of the conflict when the warring neighbors launched attacks on international oil tankers transiting the strategic waterway -- at that ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A Democratic-affiliated group is asking the Department of Transportation's inspector general to open an inquiry into whether Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao gave preferential treatment and steered millions of federal transportation dollars to the home state of her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The request ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Attorneys for a defiant Scott Israel told a state Senate hearing officer Tuesday that the ousted former Broward County sheriff was the victim of a politically motivated ploy by Gov. Ron DeSantis and he should get his job back.

The governor's removal of Israel "was not for any legal matter, was not for any constitutional ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A dispute over information-sharing between agencies about potential sponsors for unaccompanied children is holding up a bipartisan deal on border-related supplemental spending ahead of a scheduled Wednesday morning markup by the Senate Appropriations Committee, according to a senior GOP panel member.

Senate Labor-HHS-Education ...Read more