Los Angeles (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday said he was considering appointing a special master to evaluate claims by the Trump administration that California has some 20,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls and to determine whether counties would be able to separate any ballots belonging to ineligible voters. U. S. District Judge David O. Carter was overseeing a hearing in a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, which is seeking to prevent California from counting ballots from thousands...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is set to vote Wednesday on a resolution condemning the decades-long U. S. economic embargo on Cuba as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign to undermine Cuba's socialist government, including by threatening military intervention. The annual exercise aimed at calling out the U. S. government’s “maximum pressure policy” has been put before the U. N. General Assembly for the past 34 years, and each time the resolution has received from...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's broad assertions about Arab contributions to humanity's scientific and literary discoveries at a Republican campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have drawn criticism just days before midterm elections. “There's 500 million Arabs in the world and yet they don't produce science," Kennedy said on the campaign trail Monday. “They don’t win the Nobel Prize. They don’t win the Fields Prize. They don’t win...