HARTFORD, Conn. The families of some of the victims killed in the 2012 Newtown school shooting have asked a court to reinstate their wrongful-death lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used in the massacre. Lawyers for a survivor and relatives of nine killed in the shooting filed the appeal Tuesday, asking the Connecticut Supreme […]

NEW YORK President-elect Donald Trump and his team are battling back against charges of chaos and infighting as they race to set up an administration. The incoming Republican administration got an unlikely boost from outgoing Vice President Joe Biden, who said “no administration is ready on Day One.” Trump stayed out of the public eye […]

WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton is acknowledging the difficulty of her loss in the presidential race for her supporters and urging them to persevere through the Donald Trump era. In remarks that were equal parts pep talk and funeral dirge, Clinton encouraged her backers to “never, ever give up.” “I know this isn’t easy. I know that […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. A California judge has agreed to give the state attorney general’s office more time to persuade him that the operators of what she called “the world’s top online brothel” should face charges of pimping after he tentatively rejected them in a ruling. California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who referred to Backpage.com as an […]

BERLIN President Barack Obama is stressing a message of solidarity and trans-Atlantic cooperation on his final visit today to Germany — a top trade partner, key NATO ally and home to thousands of American troops, as well as a nation critical to solving Europe’s migrant crisis and debt woes. Obama arrived Wednesday night in Berlin […]

College students at campuses around the United States marched and rallied Wednesday, urging administrators to protect students and employees against immigration action under a Donald Trump presidency. Rallying supporters on social media with the hashtag #SanctuaryCampus, organizers said actions were planned at more than 80 schools, including Vermont’s Middlebury College, where about 400 people gathered, […]

CANTON, Ill. The area around a downtown square was closed today as crews assessed damage from a natural gas explosion that killed one person and injured several others in the central Illinois community of Canton. The Fulton County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency said early today that secondary searches found no additional casualties and area […]

When Juan Carlos Soni Bulos heard his front door being smashed in one November morning, he frantically scrolled through his phone to call for help. Outside the human rights activist’s bedroom window, a Mexican marine in a black mask and helmet trained a rifle on him. “Drop the phone or I’ll shoot,” he said. The […]

MOSCOW A Russian airstrike in northern Syria this week killed at least 30 members of an al-Qaida-linked group, including some of its leaders, the Russian military said today. The statement comes amid a new wave of airstrikes in the war- torn country, with the besieged rebel-held part of the city of Aleppo facing its third […]

MOSUL, Iraq Due to poor weather and cloudy skies, Iraq special forces on today paused temporarily in their push into the northern city of Mosul but still faced deadly attacks by the Islamic State group that killed at least seven civilians and a soldier. In one attack, IS militants fired mortar rounds on government controlled […]