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President Donald Trump does not have to disclose his tax returns to appear as a candidate on California’s primary ballot next spring, a unanimous state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

A top House lawmaker announced Tuesday that Congress will pass a governmentwide temporary spending bill to keep the government running through Dec. 20, forestalling a government shutdown as the House turns its focus to impeachment hearings. Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., made the announcement after meeting with Senate counterpart Richard Shelby, R-Ala., in hopes of kick-starting long-delayed efforts to...

Chicago’s top cop defended his decision on Saturday to skip President Donald Trump’s speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s annual conference.

At a news conference on Saturday, Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson defended his plans to skip President Trump’s speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference on Monday in Chicago. 

Chicago’s top cop won’t be in attendance when President Donald Trump addresses the International Association of Chiefs of Police at their annual conference in the city next week.

President Donald Trump will speak at the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s annual conference during his visit to Chicago next week, the same conference where he made headlines last year for calling for the use of “stop-and-frisk” to combat the city’s violence.

President Donald Trump is expected to visit Chicago next week for a fundraiser, marking his first time in the city since becoming president. The trip to Chicago is scheduled for Monday, according to a spokesman for the Illinois Republican Party.

President Donald Trump is coming to Chicago for a fundraiser this month, his first visit to the city since becoming president.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 in recognition of his efforts to end his country’s long-running border conflict with Eritrea. The Norwegian Nobel Institute on Friday also praised the “important reforms” that Abiy, Ethiopia’s leader since April 2018, has launched at home.

Susan Collins has built a brand as a moderate senator who isn’t afraid to buck her party. But the Maine Republican is now facing her toughest challenge yet as she prepares to run for a fifth term in a blue state — the potential impeachment of a president she didn’t vote for, NBC News reports. While Maine’s GOP chairwoman dismissed...

The European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday that individual member countries can force Facebook to remove what they regard as unlawful material from the social network all over the world — a decision experts say could hinder free speech online and put a heavy burden on tech companies.

Fights over abortion and President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall have thrown Senate efforts to advance $1.4 trillion worth of agency spending bills into disarray, threatening one of Washington’s few bipartisan accomplishments this year. A government shutdown remains unlikely, but agencies face weeks or months on autopilot while frozen at this year’s levels if the logjam isn’t broken. At issue...

Thirty new students are from Arizona, and nearly 100 moved from California. But the small town of Prosper, Texas, is expecting more growth — a lot more — so it built a $53 million high school football stadium outside Dallas, just two years after finally getting a Walmart. The scoreboard is 63 feet (19 meters) tall, the biggest at any...

Presidential candidates appeared at New Hampshire’s Democratic Party convention Saturday, some five months ahead the state’s first-in-the-nation primary.

New Hampshire is not accustomed to playing the role of the undercard. But so far in the 2020 campaign, the first-in-the-nation primary state has been more of a destination for lower-tier Democratic presidential candidates than for three of its top contenders.

President Donald Trump is throwing his support behind his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who’s considering a run for Senate in his home state of New Hampshire.

Four major automakers have reached a deal with California to toughen standards for gas mileage and greenhouse gas emissions, bypassing the Trump administration’s push to relax mileage standards nationwide instead.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is recommending that the agency cut back on inspections at the country’s nuclear reactors, a cost-cutting move promoted by the nuclear power industry but denounced by opponents as a threat to public safety. The recommendations, made public Tuesday, include reducing the time and scope of some annual inspections at the nation’s 90-plus nuclear power plants. Some...

Watch President Donald Trump’s son leave Chicago cocktail lounge Aviary after an employee spit on him Tuesday night. 

The leader of Germany’s center-left Social Democrats announced her resignation Sunday following a series of disappointing election results, raising fresh doubts about the future of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition. Andrea Nahles said she wanted “clarity” after questions were raised about her ability to lead the party. The Social Democrats finished third in last month’s European Parliament election, receiving 15.8%...