Democrats will argue before a federal judge in New Jersey on Friday that Republicans are coordinating with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump to intimidate voters, charges that the Republican Party says are not true in either the federal case or in the four other states where Democrats are waging similar battles. The legal challenge is […]

BERWYN, PA. Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, made a rare appearance on the campaign trail on Thursday, pledging to focus on combatting online bullying and serve as an advocate for women and children if her husband is elected to the White House. Her description of the perils of social media seemed at odds with her husband’s […]

WASHINGTON Donald Trump has shown more than 586 hours of television ads in the general election, and until now something has been missing: his voice. There’s no footage of him speaking, no archival recordings to build out his life story and no direct-to-camera appeals to voters. He doesn’t utter a word other than the legally […]

TRENTON, N.J. Lawmakers investigating September’s deadly New Jersey Transit train crash could finally get a chance to question the top agency officials who skipped out on an oversight hearing last month. NJ Transit says new executive director Steve Santoro and other key leaders will testify before the legislative committee on Friday. They likely will face […]

DES MOINES, Iowa An Iowa man charged in the killings of two police officers was facing intense money problems, had been found by a judge to hit and financially exploit his mother and was ordered to move out of her basement hours before the shootings. Scott Michael Greene, 46, was arrested Thursday afternoon after detectives […]

JACKSON, Miss. A police chief in the Mississippi Delta says a “person of interest” is talking to investigators about the torching of an African- American church that was spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump.” Greenville Police Chief Delando Wilson said the man voluntarily went to the police department, without an attorney, and spoke to detectives […]

NAIROBI, Kenya A South Sudanese rebel spokesman has been deported to South Sudan over a Facebook posting, a Kenyan official said Friday, while colleagues feared for his life and human rights workers and a relative said he was a registered refugee with a U.S. green card. Human rights groups immediately condemned Kenya’s deportation of James […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska The landscape is virtually treeless around a coastal hub town above Alaska’s Arctic Circle, where even summer temperatures are too cold for northern-growing forests to take root. Amid these unforgiving conditions, a creative kind of farming is sprouting up in the largely Inupiat community of Kotzebue. A subsidiary of a local Native corporation […]

MOSUL, Iraq Heavy fighting erupted in the eastern neighborhoods of Mosul on Friday as Iraqi special forces launched an assault deeper into the urban areas of the city and swung round to attack Islamic State militants from a second entry point, to the northeast. Columns of armored vehicles wound through open desert to open the […]

BEIJING China’s plans for a permanent space station remain firmly on track with the successful launch of its new heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket that will enable ambitious future missions, including a planned trip to Mars. The towering rocket that blasted off Thursday night from the Wenchang launch center will be used to launch components […]