political resignations

CHICAGO (AP) — A top city of Chicago lawyer stepped down after a federal judge accused him of hiding evidence in a fatal police shooting, the latest a...

CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for a white Chicago policeman charged with murder in the shooting death of a black teenager said Friday he will seek a chan...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan forces have repelled a Taliban attack on the Kandahar airport that lasted more than 24 hours and killed 50 people, ma...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Justice Department will investigate patterns of racial disparity in the use of force by Chicago police officers as part of a wide-r...

CHICAGO (AP) — Rahm Emanuel sought for months to keep the public from seeing a video that shows a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 ti...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Efforts are underway at the University of Missouri to address the racial tensions that led to demonstrations by students, a strik...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Anti-austerity lawmakers forced Portugal's center-right government to resign Tuesday by rejecting its policy proposals at the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli Cabinet minister has resigned, clearing the way for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to circumvent a ruling of the countr...

MILAN (AP) — Just a day after rescinding his resignation, Rome's embattled mayor was forced out of office Friday after the city council yanked its sup...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maybe Rep. Paul Ryan doesn't feel like a character in the classic film "The Godfather," weighing an offer he can't refuse. But with ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A ranking Republican lawmaker abruptly resigned from the Indiana House after sending a text message apology for "anything offensiv...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker John Boehner says he's determined to clean up some of the mess of a politically gridlocked Congress in his final month befor...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress in turmoil, House Speaker John Boehner suddenly informed fellow Republicans on Friday that he would resign at the end ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The commandant of the Marine Corps has recommended that women be excluded from competing for certain front-line combat jobs, U.S. of...

NEU-ISENBURG, Germany (AP) — Refugees from Syria and Eritrea lounge on hundreds of cots spread across the concrete floor of a former newspaper printin...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One socially conservative Michigan lawmaker was expelled from office and another resigned early Friday after they rocked the Leg...

ROSZKE, Hungary (AP) — Several hundred Arabs, Asians and Africans tired of waiting for buses broke through Hungarian police lines near the Serbian bor...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Otto Perez Molina was headed back to court on Friday after spending his first night as an ex-president in military custody. Pere...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The latest on the resignation of Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina (all times local): ___ 9:45 a.m. Guatemalan Attorney Gen...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigned in the face of a corruption scandal that has brought his government to the brink...