PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal officers are temporarily restricted from using tear gas at protests outside a Portland immigration building, a judge in Oregon ruled Tuesday, just days after agents fired gas into a crowd of demonstrators that local officials described as peaceful and which included...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Tuesday that he knows of no U. S. Supreme Court precedent to justify the Pentagon's censuring of a sitting U. S. senator who joined a videotaped plea for troops to resist unlawful orders from the Trump administration. Sen. Mark Kelly had a front-row seat in...

President Donald Trump signed a roughly $1. 2 trillion spending package to end the partial government shutdown on Tuesday, hours after the House passed the bill in a bipartisan vote. The measure funds most of the federal government through Sept. 30 while providing the Department of Homeland with U...

LONDON (AP) — British police on Tuesday opened a criminal investigation into politician Peter Mandelson over alleged misconduct in public office related to his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The U. K. government says newly released Epstein files suggest Mandelson – a...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A 13-year-old boy swam for four hours in cold and choppy waters to save his mother and two younger siblings who had been swept out to sea off the coast of Western Australia. The family, from the state capital Perth, were using kayaks and paddle boards on Friday when 4...