Washington & Politics

Belarus blocks popular news site, raids its office and staff

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KYIV, Ukraine — Authorities blocked a popular news site in Belarus that extensively covered months of protests against the country's authoritarian president, and they...

Dominican official charged with drug trafficking in Florida

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MIAMI — A Dominican congressman has been arrested in South Florida on drug trafficking charges, authorities said. ...

Samsung thrives as Seoul mulls pardon of corporate heir

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SEOUL, South Korea — Pressure is mounting on South Korean President Moon Jae-in to pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, who is back in prison...

Tiny bats put kibosh on power line tree-cutting for 2 months

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PORTLAND, Maine — Tree-cutting on a key stretch of a power line in western Maine is going to stop almost as soon as it...

Millennial Money: Should you become your own boss?

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Maybe you’re cringing at the thought of going back to an office. The seed of a business idea floats around in your head between...

AP FACT CHECK: Hyperbole from Biden, GOP on state of economy

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and House Republicans alike are revising history when asserting that the new administration set records in U.S. job creation...

AP source: NTSB chairman to step down at end of June

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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board will step down from his position at the end of June, and the Biden...

ABC’s new ‘Women of the Movement’ about Emmett Till’s mother

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NEW YORK — ABC will air a short-run series “Women of the Movement” next season about Mamie Till-Mobley, whose son Emmett Till became a...

Arizona auditors backtrack, say no election data destroyed

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PHOENIX — Firms hired to run a partisan audit of the 2020 election for Senate Republicans in Arizona said Tuesday that data was not...

Announcement expected in probe of Black man shot by deputies

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ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — The district attorney who will decide whether to file criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a Black man by...