MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Latest on Democratic National Convention coming to Milwaukee (all times local): 1 p.m. Wisconsin’s Republican Sen. Ron Johnson says Milwaukee hosting the Democratic National Convention next year will provide a “first-hand look at Democrats’ extreme policies.” Johnson and fellow Republicans are also saying bringing the convention to Wisconsin could serve to Read more about The Latest: Republicans say Milwaukee good for socialists[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump heard words from a judge that the judge didn’t speak, as the president reached to denounce the Russia investigation as a hoax and celebrate an exoneration he wasn’t given. Democrats persisted in assailing the Trump administration for putting migrant children in the same type of holding facilities used when Barack Read more about AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims an exoneration he wasn’t given[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Frustrated by a divided Congress and rifts within his own party, President Donald Trump is giving little indication in his latest budget proposal of any new policy ambitions for the coming two, or six, years. Trump’s budget plan increases spending on his border wall and the military but is light on fresh Read more about Trump budget previews campaign agenda of reruns[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and congressional investigations (all times local): 2:45 p.m. President Donald Trump says congressional Democrats seeking to investigate his campaign and White House are playing political games. Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Trump responded to a sweeping new probe from the House Judiciary Committee by Read more about The Latest: Trump calls new probe ‘presidential harassment’[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison on federal charges, then was hit almost immediately with fresh state charges in New York that could put him outside the president’s power to pardon. In Washington on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Read more about Manafort faces state charges after drawing more federal time[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told The Associated Press, “It’s coming out of military pay and pensions. $1 billion. Read more about Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort faces his second sentencing hearing in his many weeks, with a judge expected to tack on additional prison time beyond the roughly four-year punishment he has already received. Manafort faces up to 10 additional years in prison when he is sentenced Wednesday in Washington in special Read more about Manafort returning to federal court for another sentencing[…]

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s trip to Alabama to survey tornado damage (all times local): 12:30 p.m. President Donald Trump is surveying damage in Beauregard, Alabama, the community hardest hit by Sunday’s tornado that killed 23 people in a rural, eastern part of the state. The president and first lady Read more about The Latest: Trump tours tornado devastation in Alabama[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on U.S. involvement in the Yemen war (all times local): 5:30 p.m. The Senate has voted to end U.S. support for the Saudi Arabian-led coalition’s war in Yemen. The bipartisan vote Wednesday is another strong rebuke of President Donald Trump’s support for Saudi Arabia, which has been a point of Read more about The Latest: Senate votes to end US support of Yemen war[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Martha McSally, the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, said she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer and later, when she tried to talk about it to military officials, she “felt like the system was raping me all over again.” The Arizona Republican, a 26-year Read more about McSally says in Senate hearing she was raped in Air Force[…]