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The Latest: Trump says he, Tillerson 'disagreed'

March 13, 2018 12:00 AM
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2018 file photo, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. Tillerson is out as secretary of state. President Trump tweeted this morning that he’s naming CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace him. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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1 student dead, another hurt by gun in Alabama high school

March 08, 2018 12:00 AM
Huffman High School is seen behind Birmingham Police cars after at a shooting Wednesday, March 7, 2018, in Birmingham, Ala. At least one 17-year-old girl was killed in the shooting at the Alabama high school and one 17-year-old male student was injured, authorities said, adding they were investigating it as accidental. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Hope Hicks leaving as Trump's communication director

March 01, 2018 12:00 AM
In this Feb. 9, 2018 photo, White House Communications Director Hope Hicks is shown during a meeting in the Oval Office between President Donald Trump and Shane Bouvet, in Washington. Hicks, one of President Donald Trump's most loyal aides, is resigning. In a statement, the president praises Hicks for her work over the last three years. He says he 'will miss having her by my side.' The news comes a day after Hicks was interviewed for nine hours by the panel investigating Russia interference in the 2016 election and contact between Trump's campaign and Russia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Things you should know today: 3/1/18

March 01, 2018 12:00 AM
Putin boasts of new Russian nuclear weapons
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Walmart, Dick's expand corporate rift with gun lobby

March 01, 2018 12:00 AM
FILE - In this June 5, 2017, file photo, customers shop for food at Walmart in Salem, N.H. Walmart says it will no longer sell firearms and ammunition to people younger than 21. The retailer's new policy comes after Dick's Sporting Goods announced earlier Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, that it would restrict the sale of firearms to those under 21 years old. It didn't mention ammunition. Walmart says the decision came after a review of its firearm sales policy in light of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
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Health of world's last male northern white rhino in decline

March 01, 2018 12:00 AM
FILE - In this Friday, July 28, 2017 file photo, wildlife ranger Zachariah Mutai takes care of Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya. The health of 45-year-old Sudan is deteriorating and his minders said Thursday, March 1, 2018 that his 'future is not looking bright.' (AP Photo/Joe Mwihia, File)
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Putin boasts of new Russian nuclear weapons

March 01, 2018 12:00 AM
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in Manezh in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 1, 2018. Putin set a slew of ambitious economic goals, vowing to boost living standards, improve health care and education and build modern infrastructure in a state-of-the-nation address. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Things you should know today: 2/27/18

February 27, 2018 12:00 AM
The Latest: Hearing on Cruz canceled after agreement reached
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The Latest: Hearing on Cruz canceled after agreement reached

February 27, 2018 12:00 AM
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor Maddy Wilford, left, wipes a tear as her father David looks on during a press conference at Broward Health North in Deerfield Beach, Fla., Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
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Report: Inequality remains 50 years after Kerner Report

February 27, 2018 12:00 AM
In this Aug. 31, 2017, photo, former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris, of Oklahoma, holds a copy of 'The Kerner Report,' at his home in Corrales, N.M., as he discusses the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission, a panel appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967 to examine the causes of the 1960s riots. Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission and he says he remains haunted that its recommendations on U.S. race relations and poverty were never adopted. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Hope Hicks to appear before House panel in Russia probe

February 27, 2018 12:00 AM
In this Feb. 9, 2018 photo, White House Communications Director Hope Hicks is shown during a meeting in the Oval Office between President Donald Trump and Shane Bouvet, in Washington. Hicks is scheduled to meet with the House intelligence committee Tuesday for a closed-door interview as part of the panel's Russia investigation. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Lawyer defends deputy who didn't stop shooter

February 26, 2018 12:00 AM
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The very first responder to a Florida high school shooting that killed 17 people said Monday he never entered the building to confront the suspect because he believed the gunfire was coming from outside.
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Ivanka Trump believes father's denials of sexual misconduct

February 26, 2018 12:00 AM
Ivanka Trump, front left, U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter and Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party Central Committee, right, watch the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Things you should know today 2/21/18

February 21, 2018 12:00 AM
New strikes kill 10 in rebel-held suburbs of Syrian capital
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Students going to state capital to push for gun law changes

February 20, 2018 12:00 AM
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A hundred Stoneman Douglas High School students are busing 400 miles to Florida's capital Tuesday to urge lawmakers to act to prevent a repeat of the massacre that killed 17 students and faculty last week.
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Trump offers support for background checks on gun buys

February 20, 2018 12:00 AM
Demonstrators participate in a 'lie-in' during a protest in favor of gun control reform in front of the White House, Monday, Feb. 19, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Things you should know today: 2/20/18

February 20, 2018 12:00 AM
Students going to state capital to push for gun law changes
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The Latest: Opposition accuses Syria of war crimes

February 20, 2018 12:00 AM
In this photo released on Tuesday Feb. 20, 2018 which provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense run to help survivors from a street that attacked by airstrikes and shelling of the Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, suburb of Damascus, Syria. A Syrian monitoring group and paramedics say government shelling and airstrikes on rebel-held suburbs of the capital, Damascus, killed at least 98 people on Monday. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
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