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 WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona says he is resigning Jan. 31 amid a House Ethics Committee investigation of possible sexual harassment.Franks says in a statement ...

 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a bill to prevent a government shutdown this weekend.The measure passed on a 235-193 vote Thursday, mostly along party lines, and would keep the gove...

 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – U.S. Rep John Lewis says he won’t speak at the opening of Mississippi civil rights and history museums, calling it intolerable that President Donald Trump will ...

  WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says the U.S. “looks forward to participating” in the Winter Olympics in South Korea. She tweeted that update minut...

  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation declaring Thursday to be National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Trump signed the proclamation at a White House ceremony ...

  WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says the president’s throat was merely dry when he seemed to slur his words. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was responding to internet spec...

  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white former South Carolina police officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting an unarmed black motorist to death in 2015. A federal judge hand...

  HONOLULU (AP) — Pearl Harbor survivor Gilbert Meyer says he has returned to the site of the 1941 Japanese bombing because of his shipmates from the USS Utah. He says he comes to pay his r...

  1:15 PM EST UPDATE: AZTEC, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State Police say the suspect in a high school shooting is among the three dead. Police didn’t release details about the shooter but...

    WASHINGTON (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota is resigning following allegations that he touched women inappropriately, he announced on the Senate floor Thursday. R...