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WASHINGTON - The Trump administration imposed sanctions Monday on the state-owned oil company of Venezuela, a potentially critical economic move aimed at increasing pressure on President Nicolas Madur...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, William Barr, says Vice President Mike Pence is among the officials with whom he's discussed the special counsel's Russia's investigati...

Long before the claim of the world's first gene-edited babies became public, Chinese researcher He Jiankui shared the news with a U.S. Nobel laureate who objected to the experiment yet remained an adv...

SEATTLE - For a businessman who grew a small coffee roaster into an inescapable global chain, who ensured that even his part-time workers had benefits and who has given about $150,000 to Democratic ca...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said the odds congressional negotiators will craft a deal to end his border wall standoff with Congress are "less than 50-50."As hundreds of thousands of furloughed...

Politicians couldn't overcome their differences and end the government shutdown over five weeks. Six air traffic controllers might have done it in a day.Six of the 13 controllers who normally staff a ...

Federal workers who have gone a month without getting paid during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history expressed relief Friday that a deal had been reached to end the impasse, but are worri...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says he'll sign legislation shortly to reopen shuttered government departments for three weeks - until Feb. 15.Trump's action would end what has become a recor...

NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein won a judge's approval Friday to overhaul the defense team in his rape and sexual assault case, replacing his bulldog New York City attorney with a four-person squad that's...

NEW YORK - The Federal Aviation Administration reported delays in air travel Friday because of a "slight increase in sick leave" at two East Coast air traffic control facilities. The delays come as a ...