By ALAN FRAM and KIMBERLY CHANDLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Republicans tightened pressure Tuesday on Alabama’s GOP to keep a defiant Roy Moore from being elected to the Senate next month, with many voicing hope that President Donald Trump could use his clout to resolve a problem that Republicans say leaves them with no…
By DON THOMPSON and PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. (AP) — A gunman driving stolen vehicles and choosing his targets at random opened fire “without provocation” in a tiny rural Northern California town Tuesday, killing four people and wounding at least 10 others, including a student at an elementary school, before police shot…
RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — A series of shootings at multiple locations in rural Northern California left three people dead and several others wounded Tuesday, including students at an elementary school, authorities said. Law enforcement officers killed the shooter, but it was not clear if authorities counted it among the three deaths. Tehama County Assistant Sheriff…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Police searched a cordoned off Florida neighborhood Tuesday after a fourth person was shot dead, possibly by a serial killer. Tampa police say residents of the city’s Seminole Heights neighborhood reported hearing shots just before 5 a.m. Tuesday. When officers arrived, they found the body of Ronald Felton, 60, in the…
By MARCY GORDON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Promoted as needed relief for the middle class, the Senate Republican tax overhaul actually would increase taxes for some 13.8 million moderate-income American households, a bipartisan analysis showed Monday. The assessment by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation emerged as the Senate’s tax-writing committee was set to begin…
By ALAN FRAM and BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Yet another woman abruptly emerged Monday to accuse Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her as a teenager in the late 1970s, this time in a locked car, further roiling the Alabama Republican’s candidacy for an open Senate seat. Leaders of Moore’s own party intensified their…
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN, Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Donald Trump tried to have it both ways Sunday on the issue of Russian interference in last year’s presidential race, saying he believes the U.S. intelligence agencies when they say Russia meddled and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sincerity in claiming that his country…
By CLAUDIA LAUER and EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — First responders and law enforcement personnel stood with heads bowed Saturday in Sutherland Springs for a Veterans Day ceremony that also was meant to honor the more than two dozen people killed a block away at a church. About 100 people attended the…
By TRAN VAN MINH and ELAINE KURTENBACH, Associated Press DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — An annual Pacific Rim summit is sticking with its tradition of promoting free trade and closer regional ties, shrugging off President Donald Trump’s “America First” approach. The leaders of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum said Saturday that they had recommitted to fighting…
DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — President Donald Trump is in Danang, Vietnam, for a second day of meetings with Asian economic leaders. Trump told attendees at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit Friday that he won’t let the United States be “taken advantage of anymore” on trade, adding he’ll always “put America first.” Trump says the United…