-
May 2, 2024, 6:13 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden on Thursday paid tribute to her fellow teachers, hosting the 2024 national and state teachers of the year at a swanky White House dinner to honor their commitment to their students and excellence in the ...
-
May 2, 2024, 5:38 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday rejected calls from student protesters to change his approach to the war in Gaza while insisting that “order must prevail” as college campuses across the country face a wave of violence, outrage ...
-
May 2, 2024, 4:03 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden opened the White House on Thursday to more than 50 of America's best educators, hosting the 2024 national and state teachers of the year at a fancy dinner to recognize them for their ...
-
May 2, 2024, 3:24 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has moved some troops onto an airbase in Niger where a small number of U.S. forces remain after most American troops left the base in the nation's capital, Niamey, a U.S. official said Thursday. The arrival ...
-
May 2, 2024, 1:06 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain their economic circumstances and contrasted the four with the ...
-
-
May 2, 2024, 1:01 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. airstrike in Syria in May 2023 that was targeting an al-Qaida leader killed an innocent civilian instead, U.S. Central Command said Thursday, confirming early reports from residents and family members shortly after the attack. U.S. ...
-
May 2, 2024, 11:51 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his ...
-
May 2, 2024, 9:04 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia is shipping refined petroleum to North Korea at levels that exceed U.N. Security Council limits, the White House said Thursday, signaling it will impose new sanctions against those involved in facilitating the transfers. The United Nations ...
-
May 2, 2024, 8:18 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden says campus protests haven't prompted him to rethink Mideast policies, and he opposes sending in National Guard.
-
May 2, 2024, 8:14 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden says ‘dissent must never lead to disorder’ as he condemns campus pro-Palestinian protests that have turned violent.
-
-
May 2, 2024, 7:39 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will speak about student protests over the war in Gaza on Thursday, according to a White House official, breaking days of silence as police crack down on campus encampments. The official declined to be ...
-
May 2, 2024, 6:55 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is staying mum about student protests and police crackdowns as Republicans try to turn campus unrest over the war in Gaza into a campaign cudgel against Democrats. Tension at colleges and universities has been ...
-
May 2, 2024, 6:41 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 4 in 10 Americans now label China as an enemy, up from a quarter two years ago and reaching the highest level in five years, according to an annual Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday. Half ...
-
May 2, 2024, 2:07 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden , who heads to Wilmington, North Carolina Thursday to talk about the economy, is detouring to Charlotte to meet with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job — just ...
-
May 1, 2024, 9:06 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries might very well be the most powerful person in Congress right now. The minority leader of the House Democrats, it ...
-
-
May 1, 2024, 6:51 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a bid to release from jail a former FBI informant who is charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family . Alexander Smirnov 's lawyers had ...
-
May 1, 2024, 3:26 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine and other national security secrets, will face a military justice proceeding later ...
-
May 1, 2024, 3:02 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Wednesday that would establish a broader definition of antisemitism for the Department of Education to enforce anti-discrimination laws, the latest response from lawmakers to a nationwide student protest movement over the Israel-Hamas war. ...
-
May 1, 2024, 2:42 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 40% of Americans now label China as an enemy, up from a quarter two years ago and reaching the highest level in five years, according to an annual Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday. Half ...
-
May 1, 2024, 2:37 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has a new curator and Donna Hayashi Smith is the first Asian American to hold the post. The White House announced her appointment Wednesday, the start of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander ...
-
-
Get More Stories