FACT CHECK: Clinton’s latest gun-law broadside on Sanders
WASHINGTON (AP) — With New York’s crucial presidential nominating contest looming, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is framing gun laws in Bernie Sanders’ home state of Vermont as a primary culprit...
View ArticleKerry says Navy ship could have fired on Russian planes
MIAMI (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that under U.S. military rules of engagement, the Navy ship that Russian military jets buzzed in the Baltic Sea this week could have opened...
View ArticleKerry says Cuba should let anyone visit via cruise lines
MIAMI (AP) — A Cuban law that bars anyone born on the island from returning by ship is discriminatory and should be eliminated, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday. Kerry said the policy...
View ArticleCubans fleeing in high numbers despite new diplomatic ties
WASHINGTON (AP) — While more than 50 years of enmity between the United States and Cuba is slowly vanishing, the renewed relationship is raising concerns among some on the communist island nation that...
View ArticleDHS released nearly 20,000 criminal immigrants last year
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. tried repeatedly to deport Jean Jacques, an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, but his native Haiti wouldn’t take him back after he served more than a decade in a state...
View ArticleSecret Service to investigate Trump’s former butler
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s former butler has drawn the attention of Secret Service for threats online he’s made against President Barack Obama. Anthony Senecal, who served the presumptive...
View ArticleHead of TSA security operations removed from position
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee said Monday that the head of security operations at the Transportation Security Administration has been replaced. “Kelly Hoggan has been removed from his position as...
View ArticleManagement shake-up at TSA not likely to ease security lines
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration has ousted its head of security operations and put new leadership in charge of screening operations at a major international airport, but...
View ArticleOnly Trump can decide to curb aggressive campaign language
WASHINGTON (AP) — The security ring protecting Donald Trump includes Secret Service agents, his own private bodyguards, local police, sometimes even the Transportation Security Administration. But even...
View ArticleFearing copycat attacks, US officials step up security
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration stepped up security at major transit hubs across the country after Tuesday’s airport and subway bombings in Brussels, as top U.S. intelligence officials...
View ArticleSecurity agents didn’t flinch at reporter Trump calls threat
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump said he was worried that a reporter walking with him through a ballroom and asking questions earlier this month may have been armed with a bomb or a knife, disguised as a...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: Trump’s speech needs some asterisks
WASHINGTON (AP) — An annotated version of Donald Trump’s speech on combatting terrorism would be heavy with asterisks. The presumptive GOP nominee’s speech Monday painted a picture of a nation overrun...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: Trump’s speech needs some asterisks
WASHINGTON (AP) — An annotated version of Donald Trump’s speech on combating terrorism would be heavy with asterisks. The presumptive GOP nominee’s speech Monday painted a picture of a nation overrun...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: Facts undercut Trump’s post-Orlando arguments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says the United States admits Syrian refugees without checking their backgrounds and that Hillary Clinton wants to allow “radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: Facts undercut Trump post-Orlando arguments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says the United States admits Syrian refugees without checking their backgrounds and that Hillary Clinton wants to allow “radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our...
View ArticleWhat about Bernie? Still running and keeping security detail
WASHINGTON (AP) — What about Bernie? Sanders was mathematically eliminated from the Democratic presidential race earlier this month, but the Vermont senator isn’t ready to bow out and that means highly...
View ArticleState Dep’t defends handling of classified, sensitive info
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is defending its handling of classified and sensitive information against statements by the FBI director that the department doesn’t handle such information as...
View ArticlePence has long conservative record on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s conservative track record on immigration dates to his earliest days in the U.S. House and echoes the hard-line stance of Republican presidential candidate...
View ArticleFederal immigration court backlog tops 500,000 pending cases
WASHINGTON (AP) — The backlog in the federal immigration court system has eclipsed half a million pending cases, The Associated Press has learned. The Justice Department’s Executive Office for...
View ArticleObama says US does not pay ransom, defends payment to Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama expressed surprise Thursday at criticism of his administration’s $400 million cash payment to Iran to settle a longstanding legal claim, adamantly rejecting...
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