BAGHDAD (AP) - In the years following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the young cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burst onto the scene as a renegade champion of poorer Shiites, leading militant fighters who carried out deadly attacks on American forces ...

MOUNT VERNON, Ky. (AP) - Six years ago, Hannah Laswell made phone calls, knocked on doors and posted videos on Facebook to get Republican Jonathan Shell elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives. Shell is now one of the most powerful lawmaker...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's long-promised plan to bring down drug prices would mostly spare the pharmaceutical industry he previously accused of "getting away with murder." Instead he focuses on private competition and more openness t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's long-promised plan to bring down drug prices, unveiled Friday, would mostly spare the pharmaceutical industry he previously accused of "getting away with murder." Instead he focuses on private competition a...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The candidates for California governor sparred - at moments intensely personally - over issues from immigration and taxes to infidelity, but the last major debate did little to fundamentally shake up the race. Gavin Newsom, t...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Democratic front-runner in the governor's race, has said he wants to face a Republican in November and his latest ad makes it seem his preferred GOP candidate is John Cox. Newsom is airing a telev...

ATLANTA (AP) - Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North, the gung-ho Marine at the center of the Iran-Contra affair three decades ago, was named president Monday of the National Rifle Association, giving it star power as it faces a powerful backlash over the m...

ATLANTA (AP) - Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North's appointment as the next president of the National Rifle Association gives some star power to the gun lobby but also inspires disdain by gun-control advocates who call it a tone-deaf move that shows an u...

PARIS (AP) - In just one year as France's president, Emmanuel Macron has emerged as a key world player, speaking up for Europe and Western democratic values and striking a surprise friendship with Donald Trump. But Macron has made his biggest impact...

NORTH BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - Chelsea Manning is no longer living as a transgender woman in a male military prison, serving the lengthiest sentence ever for revealing U.S. government secrets. She's free to grow out her hair, travel the world, and spend...