Kurtis Lee

Debris is strewn through the scene of a mass shooting at a music festival near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas.

In recent months, Nevada has been ground zero in a fight over gun background checks

August 22, 2019 at 6:08 a.m.

As law enforcement continues to gather details on how Stephen Paddock obtained the rifles he used in Sunday's mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, elected officials are using the...

People protest outside the Phoenix Convention Center on Aug. 22, 2017, in Phoenix.

Phoenix police deploy tear gas on protesters as Trump rally ends

August 22, 2019 at 5:35 a.m.

After hours of largely peaceful protests, clashes broke out Tuesday night between police and protesters at a rally held by President Trump in downtown Phoenix. Once the president's speech was...

President Trump listens as West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice speaks during a rally Thursday.

With party switch in West Virginia, Republicans now have matched record number of governors’ seats. Will it last?

August 22, 2019 at 5:23 a.m.

The moment was filled with political pomp and pageantry: Thousands of cheering supporters packed into an arena, a sea of poster-board signs and a big announcement. "The Democrats walked away...

President Trump in Poland earlier this month. In recent days, he's talked with aides about presidential pardons.

Could Trump pardon himself? No president ever has, and legal opinions are mixed

August 22, 2019 at 5:13 a.m.

It's not rare for presidents to dole out pardons. They’ve pardoned friends and felons, political donors and even a former president. But can a president pardon himself? Well, we’ve now...

Ken Blackwell's appointment to President Trump's voter fraud commission has drawn increased scrutiny to his tenure as Ohio secretary of state, during which millions of voters' Social Security numbers were accidentally released.

Former Ohio official who accidentally released Social Security numbers is on Trump’s voter fraud panel

August 22, 2019 at 5:04 a.m.

The Republican gubernatorial primary was just weeks away, and then-Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell had his sights set on securing the nomination. Blackwell had served as mayor of Cincinnati...

Then-FBI Director James B. Comey testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3.

Here’s what you need to know about Comey’s memo on a conversation with Trump

August 22, 2019 at 4:22 a.m.

It’s the latest chapter in the continuing saga of President Trump’s ties to Russia. On Tuesday, reports surfaced of a memo written by then-FBI Director James B. Comey recording the...

Here’s what you need to know about reports of Comey’s memo on a conversation with Trump

August 22, 2019 at 4:22 a.m.

It’s the latest chapter in the continuing saga of President Trump’s ties to Russia. On Tuesday, reports surfaced of a memo written by then-FBI Director James B. Comey recording the...

President Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House. He recently said the "country needs a good shutdown" of the federal government.

Trump says America needs a government shutdown. Here’s what has happened in the past

August 22, 2019 at 4:15 a.m.

It’s a political gambit that President Trump seems to think will pay off: Let the federal government grind to a halt. “Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to...

Supporters of President Trump line the streets near his Mar-a-Lago home in West Palm Beach, Fla., on March 4, 2017

‘America first?’ Trump’s far-right supporters see a betrayal in strike on Syria

August 22, 2019 at 3:53 a.m.

As a private citizen, Donald Trump eschewed any sort of intervention in Syria. "We should stop talking, stay out of Syria and other countries that hate us, rebuild our own...

Gould Mayor Essie Mae Cableton used to work as a prison guard, including 10 years at Cummins Unit.

Arkansas prepares to execute 8 men in 11 days: Justice, or an ‘assembly line of death’?

August 22, 2019 at 3:49 a.m.

Patricia Washington sees a simple calculus: If you take someone's life, you better be prepared to lose your own. The death penalty is just, she believes — an unsurprising view...

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