Obama, Hill leaders meet ahead of federal funding deadline
By ERICA WERNER President Barack Obama is meeting with the top four leaders of Congress ahead of a month’s-end deadline to fund the government or face a shutdown, and with…
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White House campaign casts a shadow over 9/11 anniversary
By JENNIFER PELTZ and VERENA DOBNIK The U.S. marked the 15th anniversary of 9/11 with the solemn roll call of the dead Sunday but couldn’t keep the presidential campaign from…
Trump supporters court Jewish settlers in the West Bank
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Republican activists are trying to “make America great again” — from inside a Jewish settlement deep in the West Bank. This week, supporters of Republican presidential candidate…
UK: Work to begin on Calais wall to stop Channel migrants
By JILL LAWLESS Britain hopes a 4 meter-high (13 foot-high) concrete wall will succeed where security guards and barbed wire have failed, and stop migrants reaching the U.K. from the…
Poll: Support for Black Lives Matter grows among white youth
By JESSE J. HOLLAND and EMILY SWANSON Support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased among young white adults, according to a poll that suggests a majority of white,…
2 Chicago men charged in shooting of NBA star Wade’s cousin
Two brothers have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade as she was walking to register her children for school,…
Blacks question Trump outreach delivered to white audiences
By BILL BARROW and ERRIN HAINES WHACK Black Republicans cheer Donald Trump for a newfound outreach to African-Americans, but say the GOP presidential nominee must take his message beyond arenas…
Rubio on Trump: First a con man, now better than Clinton
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON A dangerous, erratic, con man with the worst spray tan ever. That’s how Sen. Marco Rubio described Donald Trump when they were both seeking the Republican presidential…