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Congress departs without deal on Ukraine aid and border security, but Senate plans to work next week

December 14, 2023, 12:47pm Latest News

Congress was departing Washington on Thursday without a deal to pass wartime support for Ukraine, even as President Joe Biden's administration raced to negotiate with Senate Republicans who are demanding changes to U.S. border security policy in return. Read story

Zelenskyy makes first visit to U.S. military headquarters in Germany, voices optimism about U.S. aid

December 14, 2023, 11:02am Nation & World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his first visit Thursday to the U.S. military headquarters in Germany where allied leaders coordinate the delivery of weapons and other aid to the war effort. And in a social media post after he left, he expressed optimism about getting additional American aid, which has… Read story

Big pay raise for troops in defense bill sent to Biden. Conservatives stymied on cultural issues

December 14, 2023, 11:02am Latest News

The House passed a defense policy bill Thursday that authorizes the biggest pay raise for troops in more than two decades, overcoming objections from some conservatives concerned the measure did not do enough to restrict the Pentagon's diversity initiatives, abortion travel policy and gender-affirming health care for transgender service members. Read story

Lawyer highlights Giuliani’s continued false claims as election workers’ damages trial nears a close

December 14, 2023, 10:15am Latest News

An attorney for two former Georgia election workers suing Rudy Giuliani for defamation highlighted during the trial's closing on Thursday that the former New York City mayor has not stopped repeating the false conspiracy theory asserting the workers meddled in the 2020 presidential election. Read story

A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a deadly car crash is transferred to U.S. custody, his family says

December 14, 2023, 10:14am Nation & World

A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens has been transferred into American custody and is being returned to the United States, his family said Thursday. Read story

A top Justice Department official who spearheaded abortion access efforts will leave in February

December 14, 2023, 10:12am Politics

A top Justice Department official who spearheaded legal work on access to abortion as part of a broad set of responsibilities will leave her job in February, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday. Read story

FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden attend the second and final presidential debate Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Relatively few Americans are excited about a potential rematch of the 2020 election between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But more Republicans would be happy to have Trump as their nominee than Democrats would be with Biden. That&#039;s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

‘Uniquely horrible choice:’ Few U.S. adults want a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024, an AP-NORC poll shows

FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden attend the second and final presidential debate Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Relatively few Americans are excited about a potential rematch of the 2020 election between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But more Republicans would be happy to have Trump as their nominee than Democrats would be with Biden. That&#039;s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

December 14, 2023, 9:51am Politics

It's the presidential election no one is really jazzed about. Read story

Older Americans to pay less for some drug treatments as drugmakers penalized for big price jumps

December 14, 2023, 9:51am Health

Hundreds of thousands of older Americans could pay less for some of their outpatient drug treatments beginning early next year, the Biden administration announced Thursday. Read story

Trump’s first criminal trial is scheduled to begin in March but legal appeals threaten that date

December 14, 2023, 9:44am Latest News

Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case in Washington once appeared likely to be the first of the former president's criminal trials to begin, with the judge having scheduled a March 4 start date. But appeals of issues central to the case are threatening to change that. Read story

Senate passes defense policy bill with 5.2% pay raise for troops, the biggest boost in decades

December 13, 2023, 5:10pm Nation & World

The Senate passed a defense policy bill Wednesday that authorizes the biggest pay raise for troops in more than two decades, but also leaves behind many of the policy priorities that social conservatives were clamoring for, making for an unusually divisive debate over what is traditionally a strongly bipartisan effort. Read story