WASHINGTON Although pestered to a fare thee well to abandon Donald Trump, Republican electors appear to be in no mood for an insurrection in the presidential campaign’s last voting ritual. This most untraditional of elections is on course to produce a traditional outcome Monday — an Electoral College ticket to the White House for the […]

LAREDO, Texas Donald Trump’s only visit to the U.S.-Mexico border while running for president was a stop in Laredo that lasted less than three hours. On some days, that’s not long enough for 18-wheelers hauling foreign-made dishwashers and car batteries to lurch through the gridlocked crossing. Trump’s campaign promise to tear apart the North American […]

BEIRUT Residents in eastern Aleppo started to board buses and ambulances as the long-awaited pullout from the last rebel enclave in the embattled Syrian city got underway today. The evacuation is part of a cease-fire deal reached this week to have the opposition surrender their last foothold in Aleppo to Syrian government control in the […]

BEIJING China appears to have installed anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons on its man-made islands in the strategically vital South China Sea, a U.S. security think tank says, upping the stakes in what many see as a potential Asian powder keg. The Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a report late Wednesday that the […]

PORTLAND An Augusta advocacy group says its signature drive to get Medicaid expansion on Maine’s ballot has been “hugely successful.” The Portland Press Herald reports the organization, Maine Equal Justice Partners, expects to make an announcement on Thursday. Expanding Medicaid would insure an estimated 80,000 people. The group says many of the signatures needed to […]