LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the Senate should simply dismiss the impeachment case against him, an extraordinary suggestion as the House prepares to transmit the charges to the chamber for the historic trial.
The Republican president is giving mixed messages ahead of the House's landmark vote that will launch the Senate proceedings in a...
ROBERT BURNS
AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other administration officials joined President Donald Trump in trying to draw attention to dissent in Iran instead of lingering questions about the scale of the threat used to justify a drone strike on Iran's top military leader.
Esper added to the uncertainty over the intelligence behind this...
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ALI ABDUL-HASSAN
Associated Press
AIN AL-ASAD BASE, Iraq (AP) — U.S. troops cleared rubble and debris from a military base housing American soldiers in western Iraq on Monday, days after it was struck by a barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles in a major escalation between the two longtime foes.
The Iranian attack was in retaliation for the U.S....
JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
Female filmmakers were shut out, "Parasite" made history and "The Joker" just edged out "The Irishman," "1917" and "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" in Monday's Oscar nominations.
Todd Phillips' R-rated superhero smash "Joker" topped all films with 11 nominations, while Martin Scorsese's elegiac crime epic "The Irishman," Quentin Tarantino's 1960s Los Angeles fairy tale...
After more than a year of construction and renovations, Vail Elementary School in Temecula officially celebrated the opening of its reworked campus with a grand re-opening Saturday, Jan. 11.The elementary school is one of the oldest in the Temecula Valley Unified School District, first constructed in the late 1970s to serve Temecula’s very first subdivisions, was closed for the...
The driver who was killed in a solo crash in Temecula Saturday morning that left three juvenile passengers injured was speeding before the accident, sheriff's deputies said.The driver of the vehicle was identified as Matthew Creed, 32, a Temecula resident and a deputy with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.The deadly crash happened around 9 a.m. Sunday on De...
A prostitution sting resulted in Temecula resulted in the arrests of 10 men, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department reported Friday.Sheriff's deputies coordinated an operation targeting "johns" in the city of Temecula on Thursday, sheriff's Sgt. Robert Menchaca said.According to Menchaca, the 10 suspects tried to solicit an undercover female deputy for sexual favors in exchange for money. During the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi squared off Sunday ahead of his impeachment trial, as she said senators will “pay a price” for blocking new witnesses and he quickly retorted that she and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff should both testify.The House plans to vote this week to transmit the articles of impeachment to...
TORONTO (AP) — People throughout the Canadian province of Ontario awoke Sunday to a cellphone alert warning them of an “incident” at a nuclear plant just east of Toronto — only to later be told the message was a mistake.The message, which was transmitted throughout the nation's most populous province, was accompanied by a shrill emergency broadcast noise. It...
LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that senators will "pay a price" if they block new witnesses in Donald Trump's impeachment trial, but the president quickly retorted that she and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff should also testify.
The House plans to vote this week to transmit the articles of impeachment to the...