MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press on Thursday that he would take the Trump administration's bid to restart federal executions after a 16-year hiatus to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Barr's comments came hours after a district court judge temporarily blocked the administration's plans to start executions next month....
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare's revamped prescription plan finder can steer unwitting seniors to coverage that costs much more than they need to pay, according to people who help with sign-ups as well as program experts.
Serving some 60 million Medicare recipients, the plan finder is the most commonly used tool on Medicare.gov and just got its first...
LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — In riveting testimony, a former national security official declared Thursday that a U.S. ambassador carried out a controversial "domestic political errand" for Donald Trump on Ukraine, an allegation undercutting a main line of the president's defense in the impeachment inquiry.
Fiona Hill told House investigators she came to...
BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Donald Trump does not have to disclose his tax returns to appear as a candidate on California's primary ballot next spring, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday.
The law, the first of its kind in the nation and aimed squarely at Trump, violates the state constitution's "specification of an inclusive open...
ERIC TUCKER, JILL COLVIN and AAMER MADHANI
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The final testimony of an extraordinary week of impeachment hearings came from a former White House national security adviser who wrote the book on Vladimir Putin — literally — and a political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine who overheard a pivotal conversation between President Donald Trump...
TEMECULA — A teenager is killed in a traffic collision every four hours nationwide. That equates to more than 1,870 teenagers killed each year. Another 184,000 teenagers are injured in traffic collisions. These deaths and injuries can be substantially reduced or prevented by eliminating high-risk driving behaviors through education. The California Highway Patrol’s (CHP) “Start Smart” program can help...
MENIFEE (CNS) - An Orange County Fire Authority employee is facing criminal charges for allegedly shooting his 4-year-old pit bull and dumping the canine's carcass in a trash bin at his workplace in Irvine.Ryan John Monteleone, 44, of Menifee, is charged with a felony count of cruelty to animals and a misdemeanor count of dumping an animal carcass.Monteleone has...
NICHOLAS RICCARDI and BILL BARROW
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats spent more time making the case for their ability to beat President Donald Trump than trying to defeat each other in their fifth debate.
Civil in tone, mostly cautious in approach, the forum on Wednesday did little to reorder the field and may have given encouragement to two new entrants...
INNA VARENYTSIA
Associated Press
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — U.S.-made medical equipment, night-vision devices and counter-mortar radar makes a difference for Ukrainian troops fighting Kremlin-backed separatists on the front line of the standoff between Russia and the West. Sometimes, it's the difference between life and death.
So when $400 million in U.S. military aid to Kyiv was held up this year, Ukrainians...
JOSEF FEDERMAN and ARON HELLER
Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's attorney general on Thursday formally charged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a series of corruption cases, throwing the country's paralyzed political system into further disarray and threatening the long-time leader's grip on power.
Capping a three-year investigation, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged Netanyahu with fraud, breach of trust and accepting...