LA Times ousts editor-publisher and other top managers

The Los Angeles Times' parent company is bringing in a new publisher, editor and other top newsroom managers in a shake-up it says is part of a plan to move one of the nation's flagship newspapers more quickly into... The Los Angeles Times' parent company is bringing in a new publisher, editor and other top newsroom managers in a shake-up it says is part of a plan to move one of the nation's flagship newspapers more quickly into the digital age. Officials have suspended the search for five Army soldiers who were in a helicopter crash during offshore training in Hawaii last week.

Rand Paul protests Trump’s Afghanistan troop increase

A leader of the GOP's non-interventionist wing says it's a "terrible idea" to send any more American troops to Afghanistan. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky issued a statement ahead of a prime-time address by President Donald Trump to unveil his updated Afghanistan policy.

Collins unsure if Trump will be 2020 GOP nominee

Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate Republican, said Monday that she was unsure whether President Donald Trump would be her party's nominee for president again in 2020. Collins, speaking on MSNBC, also said she was uncertain whom she would back for president during the next election cycle.

After 40 years, Fort Knox opens famed vault to civilians

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Inside the famed vaults at Fort Knox, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell held a 27-pound gold bar in his hands Monday as part of the first civilian delegation to see most of the country's bullion reserves in more than 40 years.

Paul Ryan: Leaders must push beyond “passions of moment”

The nation's leaders "have an obligation" to steer the country past "the passions of the moment," House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday in remarks that didn't explicitly criticize President Donald Trump's handling of this month's deadly clash in Charlottesville, Virginia. The written statement by Ryan, R-Wis., came six days after Trump used a news conference to say "both sides" were to blame for the Charlottesville violence, in which neo-Nazis and other right-wing groups clashed with counter-protesters.

Former health chiefs to Trump: Avoid new “Obamacare” crisis

That's the advice of former U.S. health secretaries of both parties to President Donald Trump and the GOP-led Congress, now that "Obamacare" seems here for the foreseeable future. The 2018 sign-up season for subsidized private health plans starts Nov. 1, with about 10 million people currently served through HealthCare.gov and its state counterparts.

US Embassy in Russia stops issuing tourist visas for 8 days

In a step that could affect hundreds of thousands of Russian tourists, the U.S. Embassy in Russia said Monday it would suspend issuing nonimmigrant visas for eight days from Wednesday in response to the Russian decision to cap embassy staff. The embassy made the decision after the Russian Foreign Ministry ordered a cap on the number of U.S. diplomatic personnel in Russia, it said in a statement, adding that it would resume issuing visas in Moscow on Sept.

Trump will return to an unsettled Arizona

Donald Trump was just a few weeks into his candidacy in 2015 when came to Phoenix for a speech that ended up being a bigger moment in his campaign than most people realized at the time. Trump savaged his critics and the media, vowed to fine Mexico $100,000 for each immigrant entering the country illegally, talked tough on trade, promised to return America to its winning ways and borrowed a line from Richard Nixon in declaring, "The silent majority is back."

Secret Service says it will run out of money to protect Trump and his family Sept. 30

The Secret Service said Monday that it has enough money to cover the cost of protecting President Donald Trump and his family through the end of September, but after that the agency will hit a federally mandated cap on salaries and overtime unless Congress intervenes. If lawmakers don't lift the cap, about a third of the agency's agents would be working overtime without being paid, agency officials said.

Kelli Ward tells Sen. Flake: ‘Mix the mortar and fix the border’

Kelli Ward is challenging fellow a fellow Republican, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, in the upcoming 2018 GOP primary race. A supporter of President Donald Trump, Ward said on "Fox & Friends" on Monday, "I think we do need to mix the mortar to fix the border."

Ohio judge shot in ‘ambush’ outside courthouse, returns fire and kills attacker

An Ohio judge was shot Monday morning outside his courthouse in what authorities called an ambush attack that ended when the judge and a probation officer returned fire, killing the attacker. Police said a man apparently waiting for Judge Joseph Bruzzese, who sits on the Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas, ran up to the judge and began shooting when he approached the courthouse.

Trump Expected To Order 4,000 More Troops To Afghanistan

President Trump is expected to deploy about 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan and try to tighten expectations on its government and that of neighboring Pakistan, senior U.S. officials tell NPR. Trump is scheduled to deliver a speech on Monday night outside Washington in which he announces his decision, which follows months of deliberation with top U.S. commanders, political advisers and even enlisted veterans of the nearly 16-year war.

Judge shot, wounded near Ohio courthouse; gunman killed

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio - A judge walking from his car into the county courthouse was shot by a gunman Monday morning but managed to fire back before a probation officer stepped in and ultimately killed the suspect, authorities said. Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. was shot at around 8 a.m. near the courthouse in Steubenville, just across the Ohio River from West Virginia's northern panhandle, roughly 30 miles west of Pittsburgh.

Judge shot, wounded near Ohio courthouse; suspect killed

A family hike in a western New York gorge turns tragic when a mother and father died after falling off a cliff and their 4-year-old son was seriously injured. A family hike in a western New York gorge turns tragic when a mother and father died after falling off a cliff and their 4-year-old son was seriously injured.

‘This is unsettling rage’: Ex-ally explains how Steve Bannon’s…

Conservative columnist C. Edmund Wright said he bonded with Bannon over their shared antipathy toward George W. Bush's chief strategist Karl Rove, and he joined Breitbart News - where he gained unsettling insights about the site's chief executive. "It's painful for me to come to the conclusion that for all his success, brilliance and love of country, rage and anger seem within Bannon to 'trump' the desire for actual solutions," Wright wrote for the right-wing American Thinker website.

Ryan: ‘There is no moral relativism when it comes to neo-Nazis’

Paul Ryan GOP chairman to discuss Charlottesville as domestic terrorism at hearing Trump's isolation grows GOP lawmaker: Trump 'failing' in Charlottesville response MORE on Monday said there can be no "moral relativism" when talking about neo-Nazis in his sharpest statement yet on the violence earlier this month in Charlottesville, Va. post on Facebook, did not mention President Trump but was clearly worded as a response to the controversy surrounding the president's remarks on the issue, in which he said both sides were to blame for Charlottesville - white supremacists and those protesting them.