WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump faced a growing backlash Monday over his administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that since April has separated at least 2,000 children from their parents crossing the southern border, even as he continued to falsely blame Democrats for the hard-line actions.

Some Republican allies in Congress, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In a major setback for political reformers, the Supreme Court refused Monday to rule on the constitutionality of extreme partisan gerrymandering, dismissing cases from Wisconsin and Maryland for procedural reasons.

In the Wisconsin case, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the challengers must bring complaints against their own...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti moved quickly to address sexual harassment at City Hall after allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein last fall sparked nationwide outrage over unwanted behavior in the workplace.

Garcetti ordered new reporting protocols, unveiled a city website for workers to lodge allegations and ...Read more

It may have taken thousands of generations of hunting, gathering, farming and cooking to get here. But in the end, the genius of humankind has combined fats and carbohydrates to produce such crowning culinary glories as the doughnut, fettuccine Alfredo, nachos and chocolate cake with buttercream frosting.

It goes without saying that these ...Read more

BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- Last month, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy of charging migrants in federal criminal court before their cases reach immigration court. When adults are taken to court, they are separated from their children, who are sent to shelters.

Immigrant advocates have ...Read more

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Conservative Ivan Duque easily defeated left-wing former guerrilla Gustavo Petro in Colombia's presidential runoff election Sunday, winning the right to lead a country struggling with deep divisions over a troubled peace deal.

Duque, a former senator, had a 2.3 million-vote margin of victory, receiving 54 percent of the vote...Read more

WASHINGTON -- As former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort spent a first weekend in jail pending trial on charges brought by the special counsel investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Sunday floated the possibility of presidential pardons for Manafort and others charged in ...Read more

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Political newcomer Ivan Duque won Colombia's presidency Sunday promising to revitalize the country's economy and save a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

According to initial results, Duque beat Gustavo Petro, the leftist former mayor Bogota, by more than 10 percentage points.

A U.S.-...Read more

Greece and Macedonia signed an agreement Sunday to end their dispute about the name Macedonia, paving the way for the former Yugoslavian republic to join NATO and approach EU membership -- but also infuriating nationalists on both sides.

The decision will mean Macedonia will officially be named the Republic of Northern Macedonia, appeasing ...Read more

An annual arts festival in Trenton, N.J., that was to continue Sunday was instead declared a "massive crime scene" by police after an early-morning shooting during which 22 people were injured.

One of the attackers was shot to death and another was arrested.

Seventeen people were shot, of whom four were reported in critical condition, Mercer ...Read more

LONDON –– Iran says Venezuela and Iraq will join it in blocking a proposal to increase oil production that's backed by Saudi Arabia and Russia when OPEC and its allies meet in Vienna this week.

"Three OPEC founders are going to stop it," Iran's representative to the bloc, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, said Sunday. "If the Kingdom of Saudi ...Read more

BRUSSELS –– There are more women in the European Union than men, but you wouldn't know it from top jobs in the bloc's business, politics or civil society.

That's what an activist group in Brussels wants to fix. With less than a year to go before EU legislative elections, Women Enablers Change Agent Network plans Tuesday to kick-start a ...Read more

KABUL, Afghanistan –– The first nationwide cease-fire in Afghanistan in more than 15 years held for its third and final day on Sunday but Taliban militants said the cessation of hostilities would not be extended beyond the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holidays.

Millions of Afghans celebrated the cease-fire and Eid over the weekend as Taliban ...Read more

WASHINGTON –– President Donald Trump's attorney said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election should itself be the subject of a Justice Department examination.

"We want the Mueller probe to be investigated the way the Trump administration has been investigated, and we'd like to see ...Read more

Congressional Republicans are pushing a new tactic to combat sanctuary cities: make it easier to sue them.

That effort, part of an immigration bill in the House, threatens to undermine sanctuary policies across California by making jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities liable for some crimes committed by ...Read more