Here are the stories you shouldn't miss today: TOP STORIES 'This Phony Emoluments Clause' Trying to dig out from political holes of his own making, President Trump started the workweek by holding forth for 71 minutes during what was ostensibly a Cabinet meeting.

In the quest for democracy throughout Asia, students often lead the way.

I wanted to know if he had come to accept the terrible loss of that day and how would he explain that acceptance. What words do you put on a tragedy that seems only to prove that life is fickle, random and cruel?

A 6-foot-5 man with size 17 feet traveled to the middle of nowhere in search of a boot maker. What he encountered was a life deeply touched by love and death and leather.

In video showing a horrific Anchorage slaying, the killer speaks in a distinctive "English sounding accent" that led police straight to a suspect.

Federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups and dwindling ranks of law enforcement officers.

The Times found that companies received more than $300 million in government contracts based on unverified claims that their owners were Native American.

Beirut is a city with very few public spaces, which has led anti-government protesters to carve out their own gathering spots.

Netanyahu had hoped to form a broad "unity" government with his chief rival, former military chief Benny Gantz. But he came up short.

Hong Kong officials were scrambling to minimize the fallout from the incident at the mosque, one of the city's most well-known religious sites.

Preliminary vote returns in a tight election indicated that neither Trudeau's Liberals nor his Conservative rivals will capture a majority in Parliament, though the incumbent prime minister was declared the winner because he has the whip hand in efforts soon to be underway to cobble together a governing coalition.

Here are the stories you shouldn't miss today: TOP STORIES Inside a Camp for Kurdish Refugees In just two weeks, the conflict in northeastern Syria — where President Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces as Turkish forces advanced into Syrian territory — has displaced more than 200,000 people, according to various official estimates.

Midwestern moderates Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar are making a strong case against the liberalism of Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

A new report details how ExxonMobil and the fossil fuel industry, over decades, worked to deceive the public over the science of climate change and avoid regulation.

The withdrawal is supposed to take place before Tuesday evening, when the cease-fire is set to end.

Ending the endless wars: 2020 voters could face a foreign policy debate unlike any since the 1930s.

Uganda has been grappling with an alarming spate of measles cases, even though there's plenty of the vaccine to go around.

The Chilean government declared a curfew Saturday in the capital after protests against public transport fare increases led to looting and arson attacks that paralyzed this city of 7 million.

El Chapo is in prison, but Sinaloa cartel remains strong. "This is a city filled with drug lords," a Mexican journalist said. "We have 20 'El Chapos' here."

Rudolph W. Giuliani, Paul Manafort and the mysterious accounting ledger that cost an anti-corruption Ukrainian lawmaker his position.

Canada goes to the polls Monday, and there are signs that the election may bring a dramatic change in the country's political environment.

Conservative justices may rein in the consumer agency touted by Elizabeth Warren and launched under President Obama.

The White House's initial strategy toward the House impeachment investigation was to try to block witnesses from testifying. Now that's failed. What's Plan B?

Here are the stories you shouldn't miss today: TOP STORIES 'Get Over It' During a Thursday morning news conference, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney came out and said it: President Trump withheld roughly $400 million in aid to Ukraine earlier this year in part to pressure its new government to investigate Democrats.

The system gives enormous power to U.S. customs officers, Border Patrol agents and asylum officers, whose whims and judgment calls decide the fate of many migrants.

Fighting continued Friday morning in a northeast Syrian border town at the center of the fight between Turkey and Kurdish forces, despite a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that went into effect overnight.

Lawyers for the Guzman family held a televised news conference to thank President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for freeing the cartel boss.

The Turkish border city of Akcakale, across from Syria, is home to a mix of Turks, Syrians and Kurds with ties to a war zone.

Mayor Wayne Messam — whose Florida city has more people than Pete Buttigieg's — got national attention for his presidential bid, at first. But the FEC said his campaign raised $5 in the third quarter.

Plans to hold the 2020 G-7 economic summit at a property owned by President Trump raises serious conflict-of-interest issues.

After the full implementation of the cease-fire, the U.S. would withdraw sanctions it has imposed on Turkey, Vice President Mike Pence said.

The grieving parents of a British teenager who was killed in a car crash involving a U.S. diplomat's wife said President Trump "doesn't understand" how much the accident has "broken" their family.

Here are the stories you shouldn't miss today: TOP STORIES In Meltdown Mode President Trump is finding himself increasingly isolated as the fallout from his abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria grows.

A Native American version of golf is gaining popularity on the Navajo Nation reservation, where duffers play on 'browns,' not greens.

South Korean gamers have died after playing for days with little food or sleep, leaving the country to ask whether video game addiction is a mental health disorder.

Chinese nationalism is not as united as it appears.

A reporter dives into the world of golf on the Navajo reservation.

Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, appears to be at the center of a foreign policy dialogue with Ukraine that forms the basis of the impeachment inquiry.

California billionaire Tom Steyer spent $47 million during the first three months of his Democratic presidential bid. The sum places him on track to join the biggest self-funding political candidates in U.S. history.

An organizer of the art exhibition Desert X shrugs off the loss. She says Saudi money will fund future Desert Xs in the Coachella Valley.

The House voted Wednesday on a bipartisan resolution opposing President Trump's withdrawal of U.S. troops from northeastern Syria.

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders seem to compete for which candidate can most thoroughly denounce billionaires. Not since the Great Depression have candidates so aggressively pilloried the well-to-do.

As Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam attempts to make an annual policy address, protesting lawmakers climb on tables, wear masks of China's president.

Here are the stories you shouldn't miss today: TOP STORIES Elizabeth Warren in the Spotlight A record 12 Democratic candidates took to the debate stage in Westerville, Ohio, last night, and there was one thing they mostly agreed on: denouncing President Trump.

In the October Democratic debate, the first to be held since Elizabeth Warren moved into the lead of many polls, she drew fire that she had largely escaped before. That illuminated both her strengths and her weaknesses.

Born in South Korea, Christian Morales was raised by a Mexican abuela in East L.A. At his Mexican restaurant in Seoul, he's re-creating the flavors of the home he can't return to since being deported 17 years ago.

President Trump never wanted to put U.S. troops in Syria.

Although there is no way to link deaths directly to the lack of aid, military officials and other Ukrainians say they felt temporarily abandoned by their foremost ally: Washington.

Kenneth Pomeranz, a professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Chicago, explains the current Chinese outrage at the NBA.

President Trump meets with the parents of a British teenager who was killed in a car crash involving a U.S. diplomat's wife.

This week, 226 years since her execution, a new exhibition in Paris aims to show how Marie Antoinette's image has undergone a makeover in recent years. From reviled royal to pop icon, her face now appears on gift shop souvenirs at her former home at Versailles, on bars of chocolate, hairbrushes, mugs, shopping bags, fridge magnets and various plastic souvenirs.

The Syrian city of Manbij, part of the territory controlled by Kurdish fighters backed by the United States until last week, appeared on the verge of being rushed by Turkish troops and Syrian rebel proxies gathered on the city's outskirts.

LeBron James' standing among basketball fans in Hong Kong takes a hit because of comments the NBA star made about free speech.

President Trump's Syria withdrawal, decided after a single phone call, has been a gift to Russia and ISIS while it has worried Israel, other allies.

Here are the stories you shouldn't miss today: TOP STORIES Chaos, Sanctions and ... Napoleon?

Mexico has been busing migrants with U.S. court dates to its southern border with Guatemala.

Trump, facing blowback over his abrupt troop withdrawal from Syria and amid reports that ISIS detainees have escaped, announced he was imposing sanctions on three Turkish officials.

The police officers were killed early Monday in western Mexico, the latest in a series of high-casualty attacks by criminal groups across the country.

Key lawmakers in both parties raced over a frantic week last month to move the complex levers of the federal government's spending process to save the aid for Ukraine that the Trump administration had withheld.

While Elizabeth Warren is surging, Joe Biden is back at center stage in the Democratic debate. Still, he can't shake doubts about his age and agility.

A settlement in the opioid trial known as MDL 2804 would be the most complex in U.S. history, with a price tag exceeding $100 billion. Where would the money go?

Here are the stories you shouldn't miss today: TOP STORIES A Turning Point in Syria In northern Syria, there is killing and chaos.

What time is the Democratic debate, and where can I watch it? A dozen candidates will crowd onstage in Ohio on Tuesday for the largest primary debate ever.

The age and health of the top Democratic presidential candidates will come under scrutiny in Tuesday's debate, coming after Bernie Sanders' heart attack. Like Sanders and Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren is in her 70s, but she flaunts her fitness.

Turkey was where Islamic State acquired food and other essentials, and found medical treatment for injured fighters.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper says President Trump has ordered U.S. troops to leave northern Syria and stay out of Turkey's assault on the Kurds.

Rescuers were deployed after Typhoon Hagibis made landfall south of Tokyo and battered central and northern Japan with torrents of rain and wind.

Mexican authorities thwarted the latest caravan of migrants attempting to head north from southern Mexico with the hope of reaching the United States.

Turkish-backed Syrian rebel factions overran the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn on Saturday, officials said, securing a strategic passageway for Turkey's offensive against a U.S.

Gordon Sondland, a Portland hotelier appointed ambassador to the European Union after donating $1 million to Trump's inauguration, called himself a master of the quid pro quo in deals between Oregon and the George W. Bush White House.

At least one person is dead and two are missing after a boat with African migrants capsizes in the Pacific off southern Mexico.

The Marshall Islands, a key U.S. ally in the central Pacific, has declared a national climate crisis because of the mounting risk of sea-level rise.

The Pentagon says Turkey has given no indication it will halt military operations in northern Syria despite calls by President Trump for a cease-fire.

Leonov almost didn't make it back to his capsule

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, tells lawmakers her removal was the result of "unfounded and false claims."

In his attacks on Joe Biden, President Trump is executing a playbook he has honed for decades, spreading false accusations using the media he scorns.

The NBA cancels all media events for the Lakers and Nets in China, saying players "have been placed into a complicated and unprecedented situation."

Here are the stories you shouldn't miss today: TOP STORIES Fires and Fury On a day when utilities turned off power to millions to reduce the chance of a spark, a dump truck driver who hastily offloaded burning trash on the side of a Riverside County highway started a fire that burned dozens of residences in a mobile home park.

Democratic presidential candidates vowed to reverse President Trump's rollbacks of LGBTQ rights as they sought to appeal to a key group of voters in the race for the party's 2020 nomination.

Jane Fonda is moving to Washington to protest the lack of U.S. action on global warming. She talks about climate change, activism and being 81 in Hollywood.

Amid the Turkish incursion, U.S. forces whisked some Islamic State detainees out of the fighting zone, including a pair of the notorious 'Beatles' who had guarded Western hostages. But what of 11,000 other prisoners belonging to the militant group?

President Trump has called Democrat Joe Biden corrupt over his son's work in Ukraine while Biden was vice president. Three of Trump's own children have conducted a vast array of overseas businesses since he entered the White House.

Iranian women have watched a FIFA soccer match after being allowed into a Tehran stadium for the first time in decades.

Volodymyr Zelensky insists he faced "no blackmail" from President Trump in their phone call that helped spark an impeachment inquiry.

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman worked with President Trump's personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani on matters involving Ukraine.

Here are the stories you shouldn't miss today: TOP STORIES Powerless in California It was the day the lights went out in Northern and Central California — and they could stay out for quite some time.

The documentary "A German Youth," directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot, is a detailed look at violent German radicalism of the Baader Meinhof Gang.

National security, human rights, IP protection -- from Beijing's perspective, they're all excuses for tech protectionism.

Joe Biden says for the first time that President Trump must be impeached for abusing his power to help his reelection.

Christians in Indonesia's Lake Toba are pushing back against plans to promote halal tourism, as religious and ethnic tensions simmer in the Muslim-dominated country.

The White House puts out its most defiant statement yet in the face of an impeachment inquiry.

Washington's dealings with Turkey, complicated even before the Syria-Kurd conflict, also highlight Trump's business ties.

Russia has been a pariah since annexing Crimea. Now attention is on Ukraine, whose leader's call with President Trump is the focus of an impeachment inquiry.

Mainlanders are willing to give up their freedoms in exchange for stability, development and wealth. That deal doesn't fly in Hong Kong.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a Turkish military operation into Syria has started after President Trump pulled U.S. troops out.

Alaska Natives and fishermen sue the Environmental Protection Agency for withdrawing its option to veto Pebble Mine.

A recently formed Phoenix-based company wants to construct dams for power generation on a tributary of the Colorado River beloved by rafters and canyon adventurers.

Here are the stories you shouldn't miss today: TOP STORIES The Consequences of Trump's Syria Plan Senior U.S. officials say President Trump's decision to pull remaining U.S. troops back from northeastern Syria could allow a resurgence of the Islamic State terrorist group and destabilize the region.

The battle to control Canada has come to Beaufort Crescent, a slice of Winnipeg that is perhaps the ultimate swing district in this month's national election.

Supreme Court appears divided on the meaning of 'sex' in federal anti-discrimination law. Justice Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, likely has the deciding vote.