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WASHINGTON - Officials say Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has resigned.Wilson was confirmed by the Senate in May 2017, making her President Donald Trump's first service secretary.No reason for Wil...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been sent to jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating Wikileaks.U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton ordered Manni...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's 2020 budget proposal will include $100 million for a global women's fund spearheaded by his daughter Ivanka Trump.The White House said the budget, expected to be ...

MADRID - Marches and protests are held Friday across the globe to mark International Women's Day under the slogan #BalanceforBetter, with calls for a more gender-balanced world.The day, sponsored by t...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis denounced the "depraved hatred" behind a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in parts of the world and said interfaith dialogue can help counter it.Francis met Friday with a deleg...

WASHINGTON - Hiring tumbled in February, with U.S. employers adding just 20,000 jobs, the smallest monthly gain in nearly a year and a half.The sharp slowdown in hiring, which might have been worsened...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians.Judge T.S. Ellis...

WASHINGTON (AP) -The House has passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, discrimination against Muslims and other bigotry against minorities. The 407-23 vote Thursday was a bid to end dissension a...

NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has filed a lawsuit claiming the Trump Organization failed to pay nearly $2 million toward his legal defense. The lawsuit filed Thu...

LONDON - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the social media company in a new direction by focusing on messaging. Chinese tech giant Tencent got there years ago with its app WeChat. Zuckerberg out...