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Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the... → Read More

Biden transition gets govt OK after Trump out of options

WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the "apparent winner" of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy. Trump relented after suffering yet more legal and procedural defeats in his seemingly futile effort to overturn the election with baseless… → Read More

300 and counting: Push by feds to arrest in US protests

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a private call with federal prosecutors across the country, Attorney General William Barr's message was clear: aggressively go after demonstrators who cause violence. Barr pushed his U.S. attorneys to bring federal charges whenever they could, keeping a grip on cases even if a defendant could be tried instead in state court, according to officials with knowledge of last… → Read More

AP sources: Man shot near White House had shouted threats

WASHINGTON (AP) - A man shot and wounded by a uniformed Secret Service officer, prompting President Donald Trump to be abruptly escorted out of a briefing room during a televised news conference, had been threatening to kill people near the White House, two officials familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The man, Myron Basil Berryman, 51, of Forestville, Maryland, was arrested on a charge of… → Read More

Trump floats November election delay

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is for the first time floating a "delay" to the Nov. 3 presidential election, as he makes unsubstantiated allegations that increased mail-in voting will result in fraud. The dates of presidential elections - the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in every fourth year - are enshrined in federal law and would require an act of Congress to change.… → Read More

Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffs at polls showing him lagging behind Democrat Joe Biden. Trump says it's too early to make such an ironclad guarantee. "I have to see. Look ... I have to see," Trump told moderator Chris… → Read More

Trump refuses to commit to election results if he loses

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffs at polls showing him lagging behind Democrat Joe Biden. Trump says it's too early to make such an ironclad guarantee. "I have to see. Look ... I have to see," Trump told moderator Chris… → Read More

Whistleblower: Trump official ignored warning on drug, virus

WASHINGTON (AP) - A government scientist was ousted after the Trump administration ignored his dire warnings about COVID-19 and a malaria drug President Donald Trump was pushing for the coronavirus despite scant evidence it helped, according to a whistleblower complaint Tuesday. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, filed the complaint… → Read More

New York struggles with coronavirus, US deaths top 1,000

NEW YORK (AP) - New York authorities mobilized to head off a public health disaster Wednesday, with the city's emergence as the nation's biggest coronavirus hot spot a warning flare - and perhaps a cautionary tale - for the rest of the country as U.S. deaths from the pandemic topped 1,000. A makeshift morgue was set up outside Bellevue Hospital, and the city's police, their ranks dwindling as… → Read More

US travel ban extends to UK, Ireland; Trump eyes US limits

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the United States will broaden its European travel ban, adding the United Kingdom and Ireland to its list, and was considering imposing restrictions on travel within the U.S. to areas hit hard by the coronavirus spread. Under the restrictions on European travel, American citizens, green card holders and others are still allowed to… → Read More

No major Dem candidates yet seek Secret Service protection

WASHINGTON (AP) - Topless demonstrators crashed a Bernie Sanders rally in Nevada two weeks ago. On Tuesday, two animal rights activists rushed the stage where Joe Biden was giving a victory speech after a stunning primary triumph, and they were carried off, protest signs flailing. Armed and seriously dangerous threats these individuals were not. But the breaches were concerning enough to prompt… → Read More

Trump moves to end asylum protections for Central Americans

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president's battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. According to a new rule published in the Federal Register, asylum seekers who pass through another country first will be ineligible for asylum at the U.S. southern… → Read More

US poised to begin immigration enforcement operation

WASHINGTON (AP) - A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting people who are in the United States illegally is expected to begin this weekend after it was postponed last month by President Donald Trump. That's according to two administration officials and immigrant activists. It'll target people with final orders of removal, including families whose cases had been fast-tracked by… → Read More

Man detained in Florida in mail-bomb case

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal authorities took a man into custody Friday in Florida in connection with the mail-bomb scare that earlier widened to 12 suspicious packages, the FBI and Justice Department said. The man was identified by law enforcement officials as Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida. He was arrested at an auto parts store in the nearby city of Plantation. Court records show Sayoc… → Read More

Police probing whether suspect in NYC murder killed others

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Investigators are looking into whether a man suspected of killing a woman he met on a dating app in New York City may have killed others, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Monday. Danueal Drayton, 27, was arrested last week in Los Angeles after police say he sexually assaulted a woman, tried to strangle her and refused to let her leave her North… → Read More

'Pharma Bro' gets 7 years in prison in securities fraud case

NEW YORK (AP) - The smirk wiped off his face, a crying Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud Friday in a hard fall for the pharmaceutical-industry bad boy vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug. Shkreli, the boyish-looking, 34-year-old entrepreneur dubbed the "Pharma Bro" for his loutish behavior, was handed his punishment after a hearing in… → Read More

Crowds pack into a frigid Times Square for 2018 celebration

NEW YORK (AP) - New Yorkers, celebrity entertainers and tourists from around the world packed into a frigid Times Square Sunday to mark the start of 2018 with a glittering crystal ball drop, a burst of more than a ton of confetti and midnight fireworks. It was only 14 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 Celsius) in the city by late afternoon - already making it one of the coldest celebrations on record.… → Read More

8 killed by New York motorist in 'cowardly act of terror'

NEW YORK (AP) - A man in a rented pickup truck drove onto a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center memorial Tuesday, killing at least eight people and injuring several others in what the mayor called "a particularly cowardly act of terror." The 29-year-old driver was shot by police after jumping out of the truck with what turned out to be a fake gun in each hand, officials said. He was… → Read More

Plunging temps lead to icy conditions following storm

Concerns about falling temperatures and icy conditions on roads and sidewalks across the Northeast followed a late-season storm that plastered the region with sleet and snow. → Read More