WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Thursday that it has charged more than 225 individuals over the past year in connection with fraud scams that victimize people age 60 and older. Attorney General William Barr and other law enforcement officials announced what they said was the department’s largest-ever nationwide crackdown on elder fraud schemes. Read more about Justice Department targeting scams against older people[…]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State on Monday lost a first round in a legal fight to return to the U.S. with her toddler son, even as a judge seemed to support at least one argument made by her lawyer for her U.S. citizenship. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton denied Read more about Woman who joined Islamic State starts fight to return to US[…]
DENMARK, S.C. (AP) — Some Democratic presidential candidates are turning to rural and small-town America in the early stages of the 2020 campaign. Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris have been to small-town South Carolina. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders crossed Iowa this weekend. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar already has been to a Read more about 2020 Democrats try to make inroads in rural America[…]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort (all times local): 10:33 a.m. A prosecutor with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office says former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort “engaged in crime again and again” over more than a decade and undermined American ideals. Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann did not Read more about The Latest: Prosecutor doesn’t propose specific prison time[…]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a wide-ranging public lands bill Tuesday that creates five new national monuments and expands several national parks. The new law also adds 1.3 million acres of new wilderness and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which supports conservation and outdoor recreation projects nationwide. It’s the largest Read more about Trump signs major public lands, conservation bill into law[…]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and Republican senators sought compromise on limiting presidents’ powers to unilaterally declare national emergencies, as chances improved that President Donald Trump might avoid a long-expected rejection by Congress of his effort to divert billions more for building barriers along the Mexican border. As a Thursday showdown vote in the Read more about Compromise could win over GOP senators opposing Trump order[…]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on border protection along the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local): 2:10 p.m. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is building a new facility in El Paso, Texas, to help manage the ever-growing number of families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Commissioner Kevin McAleenan says the facility will be a centralized location where Read more about The Latest: New facility to be built in El Paso for migrants[…]
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee launched his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, declaring climate change the nation’s most pressing issue and promising to build his White House bid around it. “It is time for our nation to set a new priority,” Inslee told supporters gathered at a solar panel Read more about Washington Gov. joins crowded 2020 Dem presidential field[…]
SEATTLE (AP) — The Latest on Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s announcement he’s running for president (all times local): 12:50 p.m. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says he wouldn’t declare a national emergency over climate change at this point if he is elected president. Inslee announced his Democratic bid for the White House on Friday in Seattle Read more about The Latest: Inslee wouldn’t declare climate-change emergency[…]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Now we know what Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was doing as she recuperated from lung cancer surgery: churning out opinions for the court at a faster clip than any of her younger colleagues. Eleven days before her 86th birthday, Ginsburg was in fine form as she announced two of the court’s three Read more about Ginsburg’s recovery prescription: Plenty of opinions[…]