BERLIN (AP) - Germany's domestic intelligence agency has put the opposition Alternative for Germany party under observation under suspicion of extreme right sympathies, several media outlets reported Wednesday. The move by the Federal Offic...

Freedom declined in the U.S. and around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in less than 20% of the world’s population living in a free country, according to Freedom House’s annual assessment of political rights and civil libe...

President Biden leaned on Senate Democrats on Tuesday to quickly approve his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package as lawmakers rushed to get the president’s top legislative priority to his desk within the next two weeks. Senate Democrat...

Republican elections officials in at least 16 states are opposing a House Democratic bill headed for a vote Wednesday that would set national standards for mail-in ballots, early voting, automatic voter registration and other election rules...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Policing reforms are making for strange bedfellows in New Mexico as the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and the conservative-backed nonprofit group Americans for Prosperity lobby for a bill to eliminate police i...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Bills to allow college athletes to earn money from their own name, likeness and image are still alive at the Mississippi Capitol. Among the bills that died under the latest deadline is one that would have required any...

Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been a champion of the #MeToo movement, isn’t saying anything about the increasing number of women accusing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. She’s letting the White House’s spokeswoman d...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A coalition of media organizations including The Associated Press is opposing a Kentucky bill that they argue would weaken the state's open records law. The bill imposes a residency requirement on open records request...

Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York said Tuesday he's considering a bid for governor next year, amid scandals engulfing three-term Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and calls for his resignation. "After your many messages of encouragement and...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama lawmakers, reacting to the governor’s $3 billion plan to lease prisons, advanced a bill Tuesday that would give the legislative branch more oversight over large expenditures. The House of Representatives vot...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A bill that would allow people to carry guns without concealing them in South Carolina is heading to the House floor. The House Judiciary Committee approved so-called open carry of weapons for people who already have a...

Cancel culture, politics, the Democratic mindset and the news media have been very busy in the past 48 hours as the work of a certain children's book author is reexamined. Here is the sequence of events: Step 1: On Sunday, media coverage su...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Top South Dakota lawmakers announced a proposal on Tuesday to delay evaluating whether the state's attorney general should be impeached until the conclusion of the criminal case against him for hitting and killing a man...

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence's final report to Congress urges the federal government to prioritize artificial intelligence innovation now and spend billions of taxpayer dollars or risk getting left behind in C...

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) - A conservative state representative from the Tri-Cities has filed to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse in next year's primary, after Newhouse was one of 10 members of the House GOP who voted to impeach form...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A longtime heavyweight in Indiana’s gambling industry is selling his stake in a Gary casino project and permanently giving up his state casino license after allegations of financial wrongdoings by him and a business part...

Sen. Steve Daines, Montana Republican, on Tuesday reintroduced legislation to strengthen protections for gun owners legally bringing their firearms across state lines amid concerns about President Biden’s call for stricter gun laws. The 198...

NEW YORK (AP) - As widely anticipated, Fox News said Tuesday that it had signed former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany as a contributor to offer commentary on various network programs. McEnany, former President Donald Trump's f...

SALEM, Mass. (AP) - A second panel from American artist Jacob Lawrence's sweeping series “Struggle: From the History of the American People" that has been hidden from public view for decades has been located, the Peabody Essex Museum in Mas...

FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday that every FBI employee referenced in a scathing Justice Department Inspector General report on the origins of the infamous Trump-Russia probe has been referred for discipline. “Every single one...

WASHINGTON (AP) - An independent ethics body says there is "substantial reason to believe” that Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo of Mississippi abused his office by misspending campaign funds, doing favors for his brother and enlisting staff...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has avoided public appearances for days as some members of his own party call for him to resign over sexual harassment allegations. The governor hasn’t taken questions from reporters since a Fe...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's Republican Party has expressed its disapproval of U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey over his vote to convict Donald Trump during the former president’s second impeachment trial, while stopping short of issuing the m...

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A Bennington man charged with violating a 2018 Vermont law that restricts the size of large-capacity ammunition magazines for firearms is open to a settlement after the state Supreme Court denied his appeal, his lawye...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - War crimes have been committed by all sides fighting in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, including jihadi rebels, government forces and a South African mercenary outfit that provides helicopter support to gov...