SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah boy has earned widespread social media attention for his neighborhood soda stand thanks to a sign he holds that reads, "Ice Cold Beer" with "root" above the word beer...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah boy has earned widespread social media attention for his neighborhood soda stand thanks to a sign he holds that reads, "Ice Cold Beer" with "root" above the word beer...

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said Friday that he's not sure if he will endorse President Donald Trump for a second term and that he may not throw his weight behind anyone during...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the old timers in the Senate are getting fed up with the lack of action on legislation, but after weeks of focus on approving President Donald Trump's backlog of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the White House's top economist is leaving soon.

In a tweet Sunday night, Trump says the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Kevin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:

ABC's "This Week" —Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, and Seth Moulton, D-Mass.; former Gov. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties in Congress demanded more information on the White House's claims of rising threats in the Middle East, warning President Donald Trump off a dangerous...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed a new federal judge in Eastern Texas, despite comments he made disparaging former President Barack Obama.

OREM, Utah (AP) — The Utah Republican Party has a new chairman.

Former state legislator Derek Brown on Saturday easily defeated three other candidates in the race to succeed Rob Anderson,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator expressed doubts Monday about supporting Stephen Moore to join the Federal Reserve board and other GOP lawmakers were decidedly noncommittal, suggesting that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's pick for the Federal Reserve Board (all times local):

7:05 p.m.

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst says she's "not enthused" about supporting...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is urging members of Congress to give special counsel Robert Mueller a chance to testify on Capitol Hill before deciding whether to impeach President...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Mitt Romney says he's "sickened" by the dishonesty the Russia investigation found in the Trump White House, but the president fires back that Romney should have put the same...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Federal legislation has been introduced to settle one of the largest outstanding water rights claims in Utah.

The settlement would give the Navajo Nation 81,500...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:

ABC's "This Week" — Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for President Donald Trump; Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Dan Kildee, D-Mich.;...

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — The top strategist for Sen. Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign is working for a likely Republican challenger to President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Congress and President Donald Trump's proposed border wall (all times local):

7:55 p.m.

A dozen defecting Republicans have joined Senate Democrats to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stunning rebuke, a dozen defecting Republicans joined Senate Democrats Thursday to block the national emergency that President Donald Trump declared so he could build his...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Republicans are questioning President Donald Trump's expected declaration of a national emergency to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Sen. Mitt Romney tweeted Thursday he's reserving judgment but doesn't believe declaring a national emergency is the right approach.

U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart says it would be a mistake and could set a precedent allowing a future Democratic president to make a similar declaration over gun violence or climate change.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney says he doesn't think using the government shutdown to push for funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is the right way "to get things done."

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney is set to hold his first town hall as a sitting senator for Utah as a government shutdown continues.

The event is set for Tuesday night in Farmington, at the Davis County Administration Building.

Romney also appeared in Ogden last week to meet with county commissioners about the impact of the shutdown on a community that's home to about 5,000 federal workers.

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said Friday he supports President Donald Trump's push for a border wall that has led to a government shutdown and questioned why Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won't agree to "another few miles" of barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Romney also said he plans to keep working with other senators to find interim solutions, such as legislation that would make sure essential government employees still working get paid now.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday that he thinks President Donald Trump has no conscience and said he'd like to see Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney challenge Trump in 2020 for the GOP nomination for president.

"I've had dealings with the man," Reid said of Trump. "I think he's amoral. I don't think he has a conscience."

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ousted Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Friday that he would be interested in running for public office again, maybe even for governor in four years.

Walker spoke to The Associated Press from the vacated governor's mansion as he prepares to be replaced Monday by Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers. Walker, a presidential candidate in the 2016 race, served two terms as governor before Evers narrowly defeated him in November.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Orrin Hatch ended his tenure Thursday as the longest-serving Republican senator in history, capping a unique career that positioned him as one of the most prominent conservatives in the United States.

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump declared himself "the most popular president in the history of the Republican Party" on Wednesday. Yet his allies fear a primary challenge from a high-profile Republican could doom his re-election.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and incoming Utah senator, has quickly set himself apart from other Republicans in the new Congress with a blistering attack on President Donald Trump's leadership and character.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Sen.-elect Mitt Romney's criticism of President Donald Trump (all times local):

8:10 a.m.

President Donald Trump is responding to blistering criticism from Republican Sen.-elect Mitt Romney. Trump says he would "much prefer that Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful."

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The nameless federal courthouse in Salt Lake City could soon have a name.

The Senate passed a bill Thursday to name the building the Orrin G. Hatch Federal Courthouse in honor of the outgoing senator.

Hatch says he's "honored and overwhelmed" that the Senate voted to name the federal courthouse after him.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has named a new chief of staff as she assembles an administrative team to run the office after winning election in November.

A statement released from the governor's office on Tuesday says Sara Craig Gongol will begin work on Saturday.

Craig Gongol, a political consultant and fundraiser, has worked with Reynolds since 2014 and was a general consultant to Reynolds' successful campaign to win the governor's office in November.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney spent five times as much as his Democratic opponent in his campaign to win a U.S. Senate seat.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Defeated Democratic congressional candidate Shireen Ghorbani is running to become the next mayor of Salt Lake County.

Ghorbani declared her candidacy Saturday for the mayoral post being vacated by U.S. Rep.-elect Ben McAdams.

Ghorbani works in communications at the University of Utah. In her first run for public office, she lost to Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart in the midterm election.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Defeated Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jenny Wilson is setting her sights on becoming the next mayor of Salt Lake County.

Wilson on Friday declared her candidacy for the mayoral post being vacated by U.S. Rep.-elect Ben McAdams.

Wilson is a member of the Salt Lake County Council who lost her Senate bid to former presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the midterm election.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney is a man in-between.

He made it to Washington after all — but not as president of the United States, the office he sought twice and other men won. He's not yet a senator from Utah, either, until he's sworn in Jan. 3. Romney, lifelong executive in public and private life, doesn't have a permanent office, a place to live or a solid sense of what it will be like to shift from being the top leader to just one of 100 ambitious personalities.

WASHINGTON (AP) — About two-thirds of Mormon voters nationwide favored Republicans in the midterm elections, but President Donald Trump's approval rating among members of the faith lagged behind, according to a nationwide survey of midterm voters.

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — For the first time in decades, Democrats are in the majority on the Board of Commissioners in Michigan's second-largest county.

Voters in Oakland County chose four Democrats in districts that usually go Republican. Democrats now will have a one-seat majority.

County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, a Republican, says he wasn't surprised by the election results Tuesday. He says he's always "reached across the aisle ... to pass a bipartisan, balanced" budget.

A majority of voters casting midterm election ballots in Utah said the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to a wide-ranging survey of the American electorate.

As voters cast ballots for U.S. Senate and members of Congress in Tuesday's elections, AP VoteCast found that 39 percent of Utah voters said the country is on the right track, compared with 61 percent who said the country is headed in the wrong direction.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney easily won a U.S. Senate seat from Utah on Tuesday, securing a place in Washington for a sometime Donald Trump critic who called for greater dignity and respect in his victory speech.

Romney returns to elected office as the successor to longtime Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, who is retiring after more than 40 years.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah voters on Tuesday will elect a new U.S. senator to replace Orrin Hatch, choose whether U.S. Rep. Mia Love earns a third term and decide if the state should make medical marijuana legal.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is stumping for fellow Republican candidates as he sails toward a likely victory Tuesday in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Utah and a return to public office.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Idaho billionaire Frank VanderSloot, a registered Republican, says he's endorsing the Democrat running for superintendent of public instruction.

Vandersloot in an announcement Monday says he's supporting Cindy Wilson because it's time to improve the state's education system with a strong, results-oriented leader.

Wilson is challenging Republican incumbent Sherri Ybarra in the Nov. 6 election.

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue headlines of the week. None of these stories is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out. Here are the real facts:

NOT REAL: "Mitt Romney: 'Trump has some very serious emotional problems, he must resign before we...'

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As wildfires ravage the U.S. West, Republican Senate candidate Mitt Romney has called for more logging and a high-tech early detection system in a plan that was met with some skepticism.

Romney, a candidate in Utah, said in an essay that more logging would thin out forests and clear dead timber so fires have less fuel.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones drew a line between himself and Republican nominee Roy Moore on Wednesday as he sided with women making sexual misconduct allegations against men of both parties.

Sen. Al Franken should resign after being accused of sexual improprieties by multiple women, Jones said in response to a reporter's question, and women accusing Moore of misconduct decades ago likewise deserve to be believed, despite Moore's denials.

FAIRHOPE, Ala. (AP) — Populist firebrand Steve Bannon savaged national Republican leaders Tuesday night in a fiery call to rally voters behind embattled Senate candidate Roy Moore as the battle for the GOP's soul spilled into a dirt-floor barn deep in rural Alabama.