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FILE - The United States Steel logo is pictured outside the headquarters building in downtown Pittsburgh, April 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
18 hours ago

Biden will decide on US Steel acquisition after influential panel fails to reach consensus

Read full article: Biden will decide on US Steel acquisition after influential panel fails to reach consensus

A powerful government panel has failed to reach consensus on the possible national security risks of a nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase U.S. Steel.

President Joe Biden speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
21 hours ago

Biden signs defense bill despite objections to ban on transgender health care for military children

Read full article: Biden signs defense bill despite objections to ban on transgender health care for military children

President Joe Biden has signed the annual defense authorization bill into law despite his objections to language banning transgender health care for military children.

FILE - Nate Coulter, executive director of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), looks at a book in the main branch of the public library in downtown Little Rock, Ark., May 23, 2023. An increasing number of conservative states are pushing for measures making it easier to ban or restrict access to books. (AP Photo/Katie Adkins, File)
1 day ago

Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional

Read full article: Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional

A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.

FILE - President Jimmy Carter views the Panama Canal at the Miraflores Locks in Canal Zone on June 17, 1978. On Friday Carter signed the final Panama Canal Treaties giving control of the canal to Panama in 2000. (AP Photo/Tasnadi, File)
1 day ago

A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can't take it back on his own

Read full article: A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can't take it back on his own

President-elect Donald Trump is decrying rising shipping fees Panama has imposed to use the Panama Canal.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., attends the cocktail hour of New York Young Republican Club's annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
22 hours ago

Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use

Read full article: Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use

The House Ethics Committee’s long-awaited report into Rep. Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations of misconduct, including sex with an underage girl, that tanked the Florida Republican’s nomination to lead the Justice Department.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks at the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, on Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
1 day ago

Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutations

Read full article: Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutations

Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions are sharing a range of emotions, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences.

FILE - Washington Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond departs federal court after pleading not guilty to obstruction of justice and other charges, May 19, 2023, in Washington. A trial is underway for a police officer charged with leaking confidential information to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio after the extremist group's members burned a stolen Black Lives Matter banner in the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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An ex-Washington police officer is convicted of lying about leaks to the Proud Boys leader

Read full article: An ex-Washington police officer is convicted of lying about leaks to the Proud Boys leader

A retired police officer in the nation’s capital has been convicted of lying to authorities about leaking confidential information to the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R- Fla., speaks at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
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House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of paying for sex, including with 17-year-old girl

Read full article: House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of paying for sex, including with 17-year-old girl

The House Ethics Committee has accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including once with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs as a member of Congress.

FILERep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of ‘regularly’ paying for sex, including with 17-year-old girl

Read full article: House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of ‘regularly’ paying for sex, including with 17-year-old girl

The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs as a member of Congress.

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2 men convicted in brutal slaying of family on Florida’s Turnpike among 37 with federal death sentences commuted Monday

Read full article: 2 men convicted in brutal slaying of family on Florida’s Turnpike among 37 with federal death sentences commuted Monday

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.

A deportation officer with Enforcement and Removal Operations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City field office changes the handcuffs of Wilmer Patricio Medina-Medina from back to front after arresting him during an early morning operation, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
1 day ago

Trump wants mass deportations. A ride-along with immigration officers shows the challenges

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Donald Trump has promised to undertake mass deportations.

Cars pass the 95th Street Red Line Station, the train station currently the farthest south on the line and where the Chicago Transit Authority plans to extend from in 2025, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
2 days ago

Isolated Chicago communities secure money for a coveted transit project before Trump takes office

Read full article: Isolated Chicago communities secure money for a coveted transit project before Trump takes office

Decades after a former Chicago mayor pledged to extend transit to the city’s far South Side, the federal government is committing to the massive project just before President Joe Biden leaves office.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, and Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump attend the final day of the Republican National Convention, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Lara Trump says she's removing herself from consideration to be Florida senator

Read full article: Lara Trump says she's removing herself from consideration to be Florida senator

Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, says she’s removing herself from consideration to be a Florida senator.

FILE - Television producer Mark Burnett, left, looks on as President Donald Trump arrives for the National Prayer Breakfast, Feb. 2, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Trump taps 'Apprentice' producer, Mark Burnett, as special envoy to the United Kingdom

Read full article: Trump taps 'Apprentice' producer, Mark Burnett, as special envoy to the United Kingdom

Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with “The Apprentice,” is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters after passing the funding bill to avert the government shutdown at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
3 days ago

Shutdown saga exposes new fault lines for Speaker Johnson and tests his grip on the gavel

Read full article: Shutdown saga exposes new fault lines for Speaker Johnson and tests his grip on the gavel

One of the most turbulent sessions of Congress in the modern era is about to make way for the next one.

FILE - A vehicle pushes up pikes of snow after trucks dump their loads of snow in the parking lots of RFK Stadium in Washington, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Senate passes RFK Stadium land bill, giving the Washington Commanders a major off-the-field win

Read full article: Senate passes RFK Stadium land bill, giving the Washington Commanders a major off-the-field win

The Washington Commanders' path to returning to nation's capital is clear after an on-again, off-again saga in Congress ended with a late reprieve.

FILE - The Supreme Court is pictured, Oct. 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
3 days ago

Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

Read full article: Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct.

Dr. Marvin Dunn leads a tour of Overtown, a historically Black neighborhood near downtown Miami, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, file)
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Florida requires teaching Black history. Some don't trust schools to do it justice

Read full article: Florida requires teaching Black history. Some don't trust schools to do it justice

Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.

Jesus Soriano, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3403 representing the National Science Foundation and several other agencies, poses for a photo in Chevy Chase, Md., after an interview on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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Deal spares federal workers before Christmas but there's concern about possible job cuts under Trump

Read full article: Deal spares federal workers before Christmas but there's concern about possible job cuts under Trump

Johnny Zuagar says he tried to hide his worries about a potential government shutdown from his three boys as he weighs how much to spend on Christmas presents.

FILE - President-elect Donald Trump listens to Elon Musk as he arrives to watch SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lift off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Nov. 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Pool via AP, File)
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Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

Read full article: Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

President Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk used his outsize influence on X to help kill a bipartisan funding proposal that would have prevented a government shutdown, spreading multiple false claims in the process.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, as she reads 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, visit patients and families at the Children's National Hospital in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Biden and the first lady bring holiday cheer to patients and families at a children's hospital

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President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, brought some holiday cheer to patients and families at a children's hospital in Washington.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump adds Europe to the list of US trade partners he's threatening with tariffs

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President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to add the 27 countries that make up the European Union to the list of trade partners he'll place tariffs on — unless the group takes steps to import more U.S. goods.

FILE - Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators after defying orders to leave at an encampment on the UCLA campus, in Los Angeles, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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University of California campuses resolve discrimination complaints stemming from Gaza protests

Read full article: University of California campuses resolve discrimination complaints stemming from Gaza protests

The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it has reached an agreement with the University of California system resolving complaints from Jewish and Muslim students of discrimination and harassment during protests last spring over the war in Gaza.

FILE - EPA Administrator Michael Regan stands near the Marathon Petroleum Refinery as he conducts a television interview, while touring neighborhoods that abut the refinery, in Reserve, La., Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

EPA head Regan, who championed environmental justice, to leave office Dec. 31

Read full article: EPA head Regan, who championed environmental justice, to leave office Dec. 31

Michael Regan, who has led the Environmental Protection Agency throughout President Joe Biden’s four-year term, said Friday he will be leaving the agency Dec. 31, about three weeks before Biden’ leaves office.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, meet with reporters to mark the confirmation of 235 federal judges nominated by President Joe Biden during the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Senate approves 235th judge of Biden's term, beating Trump's tally

Read full article: Senate approves 235th judge of Biden's term, beating Trump's tally

President Joe Biden has secured the 235th judicial confirmation of his presidency.

Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., arrives for a meeting with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Government shutdown is averted just after deadline as Congress rejects Trump's debt limit demands

Read full article: Government shutdown is averted just after deadline as Congress rejects Trump's debt limit demands

The Senate has rushed through final passage of a bipartisan plan to fund federal operations and prevent a government shutdown.

FILE - Two Air Force Special Operations Command CV-22B Ospreys fly low and fast in formation on a training range named the Hornet at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Tara Copp, File)

US military orders new safety guidelines for key Osprey part after near-crash

Read full article: US military orders new safety guidelines for key Osprey part after near-crash

The military has ordered new safety guidelines for a key part in all Osprey aircraft after a recent accident revealed the same problem that had caused a fatal crash in Japan last year.

FILE - The Capitol in Washington, is framed by early morning clouds, March 19, 2024. Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government, or federal agencies will shutter. It's up to each federal agency to determine how it handles a shutdown, but there would be disruptions in many services. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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The Latest: Schumer says Senate on course to pass bill before funding lapses at midnight

Read full article: The Latest: Schumer says Senate on course to pass bill before funding lapses at midnight

With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House has approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.

Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsett, a Detroit Democrat, speaks to reporters in the Michigan House of Representatives in Lansing, Mich., Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, alongside Republican minority leader Matt Hall. (AP Photo/Isabella Volmert)

Internal divisions doom Michigan Democrats in their final days of legislative control

Read full article: Internal divisions doom Michigan Democrats in their final days of legislative control

Michigan Democrats are ending their final days in control of the state government bogged down with disunity and inaction.