NEW YORK Sequestered in his Manhattan high-rise, Presidentelect Donald Trump is preparing to fill key foreign policy posts. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has emerged as the favorite to serve as secretary of state, a senior Trump official said. Although Giuliani has little foreign policy experience, the official said there was no real competition […]

NEW YORK Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide, could be in jeopardy under Donald Trump’s presidency. If a reconfigured high court did overturn it, the likely outcome would be a patchwork map: some states protecting abortion access, others enacting tough bans, and many struggling over what new limits they might […]

ALBANY, N.Y. A woman accused of killing her twin sister by driving their vehicle off a Hawaii cliff in May was being held Monday in a New York jail after being charged with murder for the second time in the case, authorities said. New York State Police announced over the weekend that Alexandria Duval, 38, […]

Three days into his carjacking trial in 2005, James Ochoa faced a daunting choice: Risk spending the rest of his life in prison if convicted by a California jury or plead guilty and be released in two years. Ochoa, then 20 and on probation for drug possession, had already rejected two plea offers and wanted […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand The first U.S. warship to visit New Zealand in more than 30 years was changing course Tuesday to help evacuate people stranded in a coastal town following a powerful earthquake. Hundreds of tourists and residents remained stranded in the town of Kaikoura and faced a third disrupted night after a powerful quake […]

WASHINGTON The nation’s largest civil rights organization says it will closely monitor President elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration’s policies and actions to ensure that hard-fought civil rights gains are not lost without a protracted fight. “We will not accept proposals to roll back civil rights … not on our watch,” Wade Henderson, president […]

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia When Souad al-Shammary posted a series of tweets about the thick beards worn by Saudi clerics, she never imagined she would land in jail. She put up images of several men with beards: An Orthodox Jew, a hipster, a communist, an Ottoman Caliph, a Sikh, and a Muslim. She wrote that having […]

MOSUL, Iraq Hundreds of Iraqi civilians lined up today for food in eastern neighborhoods of Mosul recently retaken from the Islamic State group, as rations ran low, an Iraqi officer said. Maj. Salam al-Obeidi says some 700 residents gathered in three areas of the Zahra and Qadisiya neighborhoods, the latter of which was the scene […]