LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators like to float above messy politics in what's known by some as the dignified "upper chamber," home of Congress' cooler heads and lofty rhetoric.
But as a court of President Donald Trump's impeachment, the Senate beginning Tuesday might seem more like the economy cabin of an oversold flight on an especially tense, mandatory...
MARK THIESSEN
Associated Press
TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska (AP) — Lizzie Chimiugak has lived for 90 years in the windswept western wilds of Alaska, born to a nomadic family who lived in mud homes and followed where the good hunting and fishing led.
Her home now is an outpost on the Bering Sea, Toksook Bay, and she is about to become the...
DAVID BAUDER
AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans who want to follow President Donald Trump's impeachment saga and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's rape trial through the media will sit in obstructed seats.
Both events begin in earnest this week — with Senate arguments over Trump's impeachment beginning Tuesday and opening statements in the Weinstein case Wednesday. Both have been...
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - A search was underway Monday for the suspects responsible for cultivating an illegal marijuana grow just south of Lake Mathews where authorities seized more than 7,000 cannabis plants.The indoor pot farm was uncovered Sunday morning in the 24000 block of Bienvenidos Road, near Candy Lane, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.Sgt. Chad Thompson said that...
MURRIETA (CNS) - Felony charges are expected to be filed Tuesday against a man accused of stealing a car in Lake Elsinore and attempting to flee from sheriff's deputies until he struck rocks on a dead-end street.Abel Stephan Hall, 21, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of auto theft, felony evading, possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of drug paraphernalia...
DANICA KIRKA
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry says he's taking a "leap of faith'' as he steps back from royal duties in an attempt to build a more peaceful life — one free of the journalists who have filmed, photographed and written about him since the day he was born.
Fat chance.
As Harry reportedly flew out of Britain on...
HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to South Korea has some unusual explanations for the harsh criticism he's faced in his host country. His mustache, maybe? Or a Japanese ancestry that raises unpleasant reminders of Japan's former colonial domination of Korea?
Many South Koreans, however, have a more straight-forward explanation for Harry Harris' struggle to...
MARIA VERZA and NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The administrator of the elite Catholic school in Cancun, Mexico, used to take the girls out of class and send them to the chapel, where the priest from the Legion of Christ religious order would sexually abuse them.
"As some were reading the Bible, he would rape the others in...
YANAN WANG and KEN MORITSUGU
Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possibility that it could spread more quickly and widely.
Team leader Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert, said two people in Guangdong province in...