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KYIV, Ukraine – As the Senate lurched toward a vote to acquit President Donald Trump on impeachment charges, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played cleanup in the country at the center of the inquiry Friday.

Visiting Ukraine, Pompeo denied the main allegations that prompted the investigation, contradicting witness testimony that Trump withheld critical military aid and a coveted visit to the White House for the nation’s leader in exchange for a corruption investigation into a political rival.

In Kyiv, Pompeo also soug

KABUL, Afghanistan – There has been an increase in Iranian activity in Afghanistan that poses a risk to American and coalition troops there, a senior U.S. commander said, as the threat from Tehran continues to churn across the Middle East.

Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan this week.

WASHINGTON – The Senate narrowly rejected Democratic demands to summon witnesses for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial late Friday, all but ensuring Trump's acquittal in just the third trial to threaten a president's removal in U.S. history.

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration announced Friday that it was restricting immigrants from six additional countries that officials said failed to meet minimum security standards, as part of an election-year push to further clamp down immigration.

Officials said immigrants from Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania will face new restrictions in obtaining certain visas to come to the U.S.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. on Friday declared a public health emergency and took drastic steps to significantly restrict entry into the country because of a coronavirus that hit China and has spread to other nations.

President Donald Trump has signed an order that will temporarily bar foreign nationals, other than immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, who have traveled in China within the past 14 days. The new restrictions, which take effect at 4 p.m.

FORT MEADE, Md. – A former CIA contractor who helped design a harsh interrogation program after the Sept. 11 attacks sought Friday to minimize the severity of techniques used on the men facing war crimes charges for their alleged roles in the plot.

John Bruce Jessen, testifying in public for the first time about an interrogation program long shrouded in secrecy, told a military court at the U.S.

Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago is calling off its popular Fourth of July Celebration this year due to a large number of other events scheduled to take place at the base the same week.

Commanding officer Capt.

A 54-year-old Marengo man is facing predatory criminal sexual assault charges after an incident three years ago involving a child younger than 13, Marengo police said Friday.

The Marengo Police Department received a report of a sexual assault in July, according to a news release issued by the department.

After a months-long investigation, the department charged Dominick R.

A 26-year-old man from unincorporated Spring Grove was arrested Thursday after police found at least 70 grams of crack cocaine in his home, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said Friday.

A long-term investigation by the Lake County Sheriff's Special Investigations Group determined that Derrius L.

A former Community Unit School District 300 teacher was sent to prison on Friday for sexually assaulting two former students.

Geneva resident Lindsey P. Anderson, 31, was sentenced to 10 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, according to the Kane County State's Attorney's Office.

She pleaded guilty to criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse on Sept.