NEW YORK — Wearing white T-shirts with the message "We are All Human Beings," more than two dozen immigrant children and their parents joined Logic and Ryan Tedder on stage Monday night at the MTV Video Music Awards to protest President Donald Trump's separation and detention policy. The children, including...
Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen Pleads Guilty in Hush-Money Scheme
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and "fixer," pleaded guilty Tuesday to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying he and Trump arranged the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to influence the election. Under a plea bargain...
Ex-Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort Guilty of 8 Charges
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Paul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump's winning presidential campaign, was found guilty of eight financial crimes Tuesday in the first trial victory of the special counsel investigation into the president's associates. A judge declared a mistrial on 10 other counts the...
Trump Honors Federal Immigration Officials at White House
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used a White House event Monday to pay tribute to federal immigration officials, returning to the fight over the U.S. southern border. The president was honoring employees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Customs and Border Protection. The federal agencies have been...
Giuliani on Hazards of Trump Interview: 'Truth Isn't Truth'
WASHINGTON — "Truth isn't truth," says President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, explaining why he's wary about pushing the president into an interview that he says could be a perjury trap. Giuliani's statement is reminiscent of a comment from another Trump aide last year about "alternative facts." Giuliani used...
Why Anti-Trump Latino Voters Won't Swing the Midterms
The Democratic Party shouldn’t count on Latinos swinging many midterm races their way this year. Approximately 27.3 million U.S. Latinos are eligible to vote in November’s midterm elections – 12 percent of all eligible voters, according to the Pew Research Center. Democrats hope that this big bloc of voters will...
Trump Nixes $92M Military Parade, Blames DC for High Cost
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday he had canceled plans for a Veterans Day military parade, citing the "ridiculously high" price tag — a day after U.S. officials said the November event could cost $92 million, more than three times the price first suggested by the White House. Trump...
LA Mayor: Trump Sows Division, Does 'Racist Things'
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, considering a 2020 presidential run, said Thursday that President Donald Trump has done "plenty of racist things" to divide the nation while failing to deliver on health care reform and other promises. In an interview with The Associated Press, the two-term Democratic...
Victory Offers Muslim Candidate New Platform to Oppose Trump
MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump, meet Ilhan Omar. Just two years ago, the Minnesota Democrat became the first Somali-American elected to a state legislature. Now she's likely to become one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. And she says one of her top priorities will be resisting...
Fresno Bee to Trump: We're Not Enemies of the People
Newspapers from Maine to Hawaii, including The Fresno Bee, pushed back against President Donald Trump's attacks on "fake news" Thursday with a coordinated series of editorials speaking up for a free and vigorous press. The Boston Globe, which set the campaign in motion by urging the unified voice, had estimated...