By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An appeals court has paused lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal officers' use of tear gas during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland. A three-judge panel at the 9th U.S. ...
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump may believe the adage that the pen is mightier than the sword — as long as it's a Sharpie. During a Cabinet meeting Thursday that discussed the war in Iran, record-long security lines at many of the nation's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has opened investigations into how race is considered in admissions at three medical schools, ratcheting up its pressure campaign against colleges and universities. The Justice Department opened the investigations Wednesday into possible ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's new congressional map, which gives Democrats a high likelihood of picking up a U.S. House seat in the Salt Lake City area, is likely to remain in place beyond this election cycle because a Republican-led initiative to repeal the state's anti-gerrymandering law ...
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press It's finally peak bloom for the airy pink cherry blossoms in Washington, a welcome sign of spring in a city of concrete and granite continuously weighed down by the necessary heft of the nation's decision-making. The thousands of blooming cherry trees that ...
By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's high court on Thursday overturned the use of automatic life sentences without parole for people convicted of second-degree murder, saying it violates the state's constitutional ban on cruel punishment ...
