By ERRIN HAINES WHACK Associated Press EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) — A white police officer was charged Wednesday with homicide in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager who was hit in the back while fleeing a traffic stop, a death that has fueled daily protests around Pittsburgh. Prosecutors cited[Read More…]

By KEN THOMAS & DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump campaigned Monday for the state’s GOP governor, who is in a tense runoff election — but made the vote all about himself, too. Speaking of Gov. Henry McMaster, Trump told an overflow rally crowd:[Read More…]

By ELLIOT SPAGAT & MORGAN LEE Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration has scaled back a key element of its zero-tolerance immigration policy amid a global uproar over the separation of more than 2,300 migrant families, halting the practice of turning over parents to prosecutors for charges[Read More…]

BY PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States attacked first, imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum from around the globe and threatening to hit tens of billions of dollars in Chinese products. Now, the world is punching back. The European Union is set Friday to slap tariffs[Read More…]

By LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Republican immigration overhaul dangled precariously Thursday, imperiled by stubborn differences between conservative and moderate factions — and by President Donald Trump’s running commentary about a bill he only half-heartedly supported and then suggested would never become law. Republican leaders were[Read More…]

By LEANNE ITALIE and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump went to Texas to show she cared about migrant children. Her fashion choice carried a baffling counter-message. The first lady wore a green, hooded military jacket from the fast-fashion brand Zara that read “I really don’t care,[Read More…]

By JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowing to pressure from anxious allies, President Donald Trump abruptly reversed himself Wednesday and signed an executive order halting his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the U.S. border. It was[Read More…]

TEL BIG WELLS, Texas (AP) — At least five people were killed and several others hurt Sunday as an SUV carrying more than a dozen people crashed while fleeing from Border Patrol agents in South Texas. The SUV carrying 14 people went out of control at more than 100 mph[Read More…]

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China fired back Saturday in a spiraling trade dispute with President Donald Trump by raising import duties on a $34 billion list of American goods including soybeans, electric cars and whiskey. The government said it was responding in “equal scale” to Trump’s[Read More…]

By ZEKE MILLER, CATHERINE LUCEY, JOSH LEDERMAN & FOSTER KLUG Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un came together for a momentous summit Tuesday that could chart a course for historic peace or raise the specter of a growing nuclear threat, with Kim[Read More…]