MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Many attending U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's college lecture Friday in his home state of Kansas will be listening for clues about whether he might run for the Senate next year, though it could be many months before any...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Former Guatemalan first lady and presidential runner-up Sandra Torres was arrested Monday on charges of campaign finance violations, the latest high-profile political figure to face allegations of malfeasance even as a U.N. ant...

ROME (AP) - Ex-Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte accepted the role of premier-designate on Thursday in a bid to cobble together a new government of long-time political foes with the common aim of blocking a power grab by Matteo Salvini, the right-wing l...

PHOENIX (AP) - A Phoenix-area businessman said Wednesday he'll challenge U.S. Sen. Martha McSally in the Republican primary, setting up a potential threat to GOP efforts to hold onto John McCain's former Senate seat. Daniel McCarthy, who founded a c...

CHICAGO (AP) - As a young scholar, Elizabeth Warren traveled to federal courthouses, studying families overwhelmed by debt. She brought along a photocopier, gathering reams of statistics as she tried to answer one question: Why were these folks goin...

By Bob Oswald "Wow, Report Just Out!" President Donald Trump tweeted last week. "Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election!" The claim is unsubstantiated, according to PolitiFact.com, and the presid...

Most of the attention surrounding transfers this offseason justifiably has focused on the high-profile quarterbacks who have switched schools. Two former College Football Playoff starting quarterbacks are at new places. Jalen Hurts, the 2016 Southea...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Beto O'Rourke has been searching for the spotlight almost since he entered the crowded race for president. He found it in a way he could never have predicted or wanted. Since a white nationalist shot and killed 22 people at a W...

Details were scant, but the similarities were unnerving. Shots fired at the local Walmart. Terrified shoppers running for cover. Frantic calls streaming into 911. The Baton Rouge store is nearly 1,000 miles east of the El Paso Walmart where, just 72...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Beto O'Rourke, his once-soaring presidential prospects in swift decline, returned to El Paso, Texas, to try to help cope with the shootings that killed 20 people. He no longer has the platform of a public office, but he still has h...