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WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, will need more than the usual Senate confirmation before being able to take office.
U.S. law states that a nominee for defense secretary m...
Updated: Dec 03, 2016 at 08:21 AM
CARSON, Calif. (AP) - Peter Vagenas replaced Bruce Arena as the LA Galaxy's general manager on Monday.
Galaxy President Chris Klein promoted Vagenas, the captain of the Galaxy's 2005 MLS championship team. Vagenas will be involved in the search for ...
Updated: Nov 28, 2016 at 04:05 PM
PARIS (AP) - Francois Fillon won France's first-ever conservative presidential primary Sunday after promising drastic free-market reforms and a crackdown on immigration and Islamic extremism, beating a more moderate rival who had warned of encroachi...
Updated: Nov 27, 2016 at 05:00 PM
BERLIN (AP) - Germany's main center-left party faced pressure Monday to decide on a challenger to Angela Merkel in next year's election after the chancellor announced she will seek a fourth term.
The Social Democrats lost the chancellery to the cons...
Published: Nov 21, 2016 at 07:00 AM
Americans have never been more interested in looking up the Ku Klux Klan online than they are right now, according to search data from Google Trends.
Google doesn't publish the exact number of people who are searching for the infamous and often viol...
Updated: Nov 21, 2016 at 10:23 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump's transition activities (all times EST):
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Vice President-elect Mike Pence is the latest high-profile person to attend the Broadway hit show "Hamilton" - but the first to get a sharp mes...
Published: Nov 19, 2016 at 07:00 AM
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Hardly anyone in North Carolina is willing to guess when their excruciatingly close governor's race will be resolved. A Friday deadline came and went with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper's unofficial advantage growing to ...
Updated: Nov 18, 2016 at 09:31 PM
CHICAGO (AP) - Commissioner Rob Manfred says baseball wants to study high-profile positions within the sport to see if certain qualifications predict success, a step that "has everything to do" with minority hiring.
Baseball had no Latino managers b...
Updated: Nov 17, 2016 at 05:00 PM
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois congressman who resigned amid scrutiny of lavish spending - including a "Downton Abbey"-style redecorating of his Capitol Hill office - was charged Thursday in a wide-ranging federal indictment that alleges he schemed...
Updated: Nov 10, 2016 at 06:30 PM
BEIJING (AP) - Donald Trump is a mixed blessing for Chinese leaders.
Trump's threats to tear up trade deals and hike tariffs on Chinese goods look ominous. If carried out, they could chill thriving commercial ties at a time when Beijing is strugglin...
Updated: Nov 10, 2016 at 10:01 PM