14 die when truck collides with hockey team's bus in Canada

NIPAWIN, Saskatchewan (AP) – A semi-trailer slammed into a bus carrying a youth hockey team in western Canada, killing 14 people and injuring 15 in a catastrophic collision that a doctor compared to an airstrike and left the vehicles obliterated in the snow. The...

Trump troop request creates opening for governors to say no

By ANDREW SELSKY and TOM JAMESAssociated PressSALEM, Ore. (AP) – President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to the Mexico border has drawn resistance from some governors, most of them Democrats, and the law he invoked creates an opening...

China vows to 'counterattack' US as trade spat worsens

By JILL COLVIN and GILLIAN WONGAssociated PressWASHINGTON (AP) – China’s government vowed Friday to “counterattack with great strength” if President Donald Trump goes ahead with plans to raise U.S. tariffs on an additional $100 billion worth of...

Ex-S. Korean leader Park gets 24-year prison term

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNGAssociated PressSEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was formally convicted of an array of corruption charges and sentenced to 24 years in prison on Friday, a year after she was driven from...

AP: Record number of women file to run for US House seats

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MAUREEN LINKEAssociated PressCHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) – The number of women running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, the vast majority of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and...