WASHINGTON (AP) — Four Democratic freshmen who reported squalid conditions at migrant detention stations at the southern border are taking the spotlight at a House committee hearing, even as partisan and internal Democratic tensions near a boil over President Donald Trump's immigration ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. producer prices rose modestly in June, another sign that inflationary pressures remain subdued. The Labor Department said this morning that its producer price index, which measures inflation before it reaches consumers, rose 0.1 percent last month, same as the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he'll hold a news conference late this afternoon to talk about the 2020 census and his push to include a question on citizenship. A Supreme Court ruling has temporarily barred the question, but Trump has said he may issue an executive order or ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's July Fourth event has drained a special fund used to provide security and protect the nation's capital from terrorist threats. The Washington Post reports the celebration cost the District of Columbia about $1.7 million, not including police ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer prices rose just 0.1 percent in June, as cheaper gas prices were offset by higher rents and auto costs. The Labor Department said this morning that the consumer price index increased 1.6 percent in June from a year earlier. That is down from 1.8 percent in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is lashing out at social media companies and the press ahead of his White House "Social Media Summit" gathering of mostly conservative groups. Trump tweeted this morning against social media companies, the press and his Democratic rivals, while ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A potential tropical storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico presents twin troubles for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi — the possibility that the flooded Mississippi River will be lapping at the tops of levees this weekend, and a danger of flash floods like the one that ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The British navy said it prevented three Iranian paramilitary vessels from impeding the passage of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early today, a day after Iran's president warned of repercussions for the seizure of its own supertanker. Iran's ...

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A passenger train rammed into a freight train at a railway station in southern Pakistan today, killing at least 20 people and injuring 74 others, hospital officials said. The freight train was stationary when the speeding passenger train struck it at Walhar Railway ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rip Torn, the free-spirited Texan who overcame his quirky name to become a distinguished actor in theater, television and movies and win an Emmy in his 60s for his comedy turn on TV's "The Larry Sanders Show," has died. He was 88. Torn died Tuesday afternoon at his home ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is directing the government to revamp the nation's care for kidney disease, so that more people whose kidneys fail have a chance at early transplants and home dialysis — along with better prevention so patients don't get that sick to begin ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said this morning that "many" Fed officials believe a weakening global economy and rising trade tensions have strengthened the case for looser interest-rate policies. Delivering the Fed's semi-annual monetary report to Congress, ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain's ambassador to the United States resigned this morning, just days after diplomatic cables criticizing President Donald Trump caused embarrassment to two countries that often celebrate having a "special relationship." The resignation of Kim Darroch came after Trump ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department can't replace nine lawyers so late in the dispute over whether to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census without explaining why it's doing so, a judge says. U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman, who earlier this year ruled against adding the ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police investigators have cracked the case: A 4-5 foot alligator is living in a lagoon at one of the city's most popular parks. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says Tuesday that investigators went to Humboldt Park Lagoon on the city's West Side and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elvis Presley fans can take to the road in his personal stretch limousine, on his last motorcycle or in a pickup truck if they have the money, an auction house announced this morning. Kruse GWS Auctions said the items will be part of its Artifacts of Hollywood auction on ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model this week at its plant in Puebla, Mexico. It's the end of the road for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over a history spanning the eight decades since 1938. It has been: a part of ...

LONDON (AP) — In a significant shift, Britain's main opposition Labour Party said today that Britain's next prime minister should hold a referendum on whether to leave the European Union or remain in the bloc. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the party would campaign to stay in the EU if a ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog are voicing concern that Syria may still possess such weapons after inspectors discovered traces of what could be a byproduct of a nerve agent or poison gas. In a report submitted today at the Organization ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing climate-damaging tailpipe emissions, 23 U.S. governors signed a pledge backing California leaders in their showdown with the Trump administration over its plans to relax vehicle mileage standards. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was not among the governors who signed today's ...