PHOENIX U.S. Sen. John McCain seemingly has every reason to oppose Donald Trump. The Republican presidential nominee has attacked many issues dear to the Arizona senator, including the family of a fallen soldier, NATO and even McCain’s own military service. Yet McCain, who faces a primary challenge and a strong Democratic opponent in the fall, […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio Two years after a white policeman fatally shot a 22-year-old black man in an Ohio Wal- Mart who was carrying an air rifle that he had picked up from a store shelf, the U.S. Department of Justice has yet to conclude its investigation and won’t say why, despite the family’s push for an […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. The wardens at California’s two major women’s prisons have retired amid allegations of pervasive problems at both institutions, including sexual abuse of female inmates at one prison and suicides at the other. The complaints are the latest problem for the corrections department, and come months after the California inspector general found a culture […]

BEIJING In halting televised confessions and emotional courtroom testimony, Chinese lawyers and activists held in a government crackdown have voiced the same ominous message: Shadowy foreign forces are funding, directing and encouraging activities bent on destabilizing China’s government and smearing its reputation. The familiar narrative of a country besieged by foreign enemies — with the […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Malaysia acknowledged for the first time that one of the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had plotted a course on his home flight simulator to the southern Indian Ocean, where the missing jet is believed to have crashed. Australian officials overseeing the search for the plane last month said data recovered […]

ANKARA, Turkey Turkey’s ruling party on Friday instructed its local branches and party- led municipalities to purge themselves of suspected supporters of U. S.- based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused by the government of instigating the country’s failed July 15 coup. Gulen has denied involvement or prior knowledge of the violent coup attempt […]

LONDON Activists linked to the U.S.-based group Black Lives Matter blocked a road Friday leading to London’s Heathrow Airport and held protests in other British cities. Organizer Joshua Virasami told the BBC that the movement — founded to protest the killings of black people by American police — was needed “in Britain and all over […]

OMAHA, Neb. A smiling blond-haired boy slid down an inflatable water slide and sprayed Anisa Hoie as he flew by. “That’s great,” Hoie called out to him. “Awesome.” Hoie loves spotting big smiles at Camp CoHoLo, a summer camp for kids with cancer. The camp near Gretna marked its 32nd year this summer and is […]