YURAS KARMANAU
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Police in Ukraine are investigating whether the U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance by an unknown party before the Trump administration recalled her from Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday.
The announcement came two days after Democratic lawmakers in the United States released documents and text messages that showed an associate of President Donald...
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday fast-tracked work on constitutional changes that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024 while lawmakers quickly sealed his choice for new prime minister.
Speaking to a working group created to draft constitutional changes, Putin cast his proposals as a way to strengthen...
KATE BRUMBACK, DEEPTI HAJELA and AMY TAXIN
Associated Press
LUMPKIN, Ga. (AP) — In a locked, guarded courtroom in a compound surrounded by razor wire, Immigration Judge Jerome Rothschild waits -- and stalls.
A Spanish interpreter is running late because of a flat tire. Rothschild tells the five immigrants before him that he'll take a break before the proceedings even start....
ANDREW TAYLOR and ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine, an action at the center of President Donald Trump's impeachment, a federal watchdog agency said Thursday.
The Government Accountability Office said in a report that the Office of Management and Budget violated the law in holding up the aid, which...
LISA MASCARO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in Thursday to preside over President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, then immediately administered the oath to the full Senate to ensure "impartial justice" as jurors for only the third such proceeding in American. history.
Roberts made the short trip across the street from the Supreme Court before being...
A local Temecula Valley author is planning to release his eighth book in the coming months.Dr. William Lynes, 66, has lived in Temecula since 1989, and has been writing since shortly after that.Lynes is a former physician — he retired in 2003 — and most of his books have been medical genre fiction. His latest work, “A Surgeon’s Knot,”...
The Temecula City Council voted Tuesday night to add a section to its municipal code reaffirming that short-term rentals are illegal in the city limits, and impose a $1,000-per-day fine on any such rentals operating within the city.A short-term rental is usually a home or apartment that is rented for under 30 days, usually on a site like Airbnb...
A huge crowd gathered for the opening of the long-awaited Jim Venable Exchange Club Park in Valle Vista, Saturday, Jan. 11, at the corner of Fairview and Mayberry avenues.Hosting the event were members of the Friends of Valley-Wide Foundation, the Valley-Wide Board of Directors and the Exchange Club of the Hemet San Jacinto Valley who offered a day of...
The unusual appearance of some Star Wars characters showed up at Hemet Public Library’s “Get Your Comics On” event Saturday, Jan. 11, much to the delight of science fiction fans and aspiring cartoon artists.Stealing the show that featured many local comic cartoonists and Flintstones cartoonist Scott Shaw was Star Wars robot R2D2 which rolled around the second floor of...