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FILE - President Joe Biden, left, speaks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a meeting at the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain on June 29, 2022. Biden is welcoming outgoing NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to the White House on Monday, June 12, 2023, as the competition to find his successor to lead the military alliance heats up. Stoltenberg, who has led NATO since 2014 indicated earlier this year he would move on when his term expires at the end of September.

Biden misses public events at White House and reschedules NATO meeting

FILE - President Joe Biden, left, speaks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a meeting at the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain on June 29, 2022. Biden is welcoming outgoing NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to the White House on Monday, June 12, 2023, as the competition to find his successor to lead the military alliance heats up. Stoltenberg, who has led NATO since 2014 indicated earlier this year he would move on when his term expires at the end of September.

June 12, 2023, 8:05am Politics

President Joe Biden underwent a root canal after experiencing some dental pain – a procedure that took him out of commission for his public events on Monday. Read story

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks during the North Carolina Republican Party Convention in Greensboro, N.C., Saturday, June 10, 2023. As former President Donald Trump prepares for a momentous court appearance this week on charges related to the hoarding of top-secret documents, Republican allies are amplifying without evidence claims that he's the target of a political prosecution.

Trump allies cite Clinton email probe to attack classified records case but there are big differences

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks during the North Carolina Republican Party Convention in Greensboro, N.C., Saturday, June 10, 2023. As former President Donald Trump prepares for a momentous court appearance this week on charges related to the hoarding of top-secret documents, Republican allies are amplifying without evidence claims that he's the target of a political prosecution.

June 11, 2023, 12:36pm Politics

As former President Donald Trump prepares for a momentous court appearance Tuesday on charges related to the hoarding of top-secret documents, Republican allies are amplifying, without evidence, claims that he is the target of a political prosecution. Read story

New food stamp requirements test states and USDA

June 10, 2023, 6:04am Politics

State agencies and the Agriculture Department face a perfect storm of legislative and regulatory demands as they turn the food stamp work requirements in the debt ceiling law into reality. Read story

The schooner Timberwind cruises with her guests on a sunset sail off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Portland Head Light stands at the mouth of the harbor in the background. While much of the East Coast is dealing with the smoke from the Canadian wildfires, Maine has been enjoying clean air due to a low pressure system and favorable winds. (AP Photo/Robert F.

For many cities around the world, bad air an inescapable part of life

The schooner Timberwind cruises with her guests on a sunset sail off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Portland Head Light stands at the mouth of the harbor in the background. While much of the East Coast is dealing with the smoke from the Canadian wildfires, Maine has been enjoying clean air due to a low pressure system and favorable winds. (AP Photo/Robert F.

June 9, 2023, 1:45pm Health

Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this week. But for much of the rest of the world, breathing dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life — and death. Read story

FILE - African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Reginald Jackson announces a boycott of Coca-Cola Co. products outside the Georgia Capitol on March 25, 2021 in Atlanta. The Supreme Court decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional maps is a surprise victory for Black and Latino voters across the country who say legislatures in a number of Republican-controlled states have drawn districts in a way that dilutes their political strength.

Supreme Court voting rights ruling stuns minority voters, who hope it expands their representation

FILE - African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Reginald Jackson announces a boycott of Coca-Cola Co. products outside the Georgia Capitol on March 25, 2021 in Atlanta. The Supreme Court decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional maps is a surprise victory for Black and Latino voters across the country who say legislatures in a number of Republican-controlled states have drawn districts in a way that dilutes their political strength.

June 9, 2023, 1:44pm Politics

This week’s Supreme Court decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional districts was seen by many minority lawmakers and voting rights activists as a stunning victory with the potential to become a major stepping stone for undoing political maps that dilute the strength of communities of color. Read story

Alzheimer’s drug gets FDA panel’s backing, setting the stage for broader use

June 9, 2023, 1:30pm Health

Health advisers on Friday unanimously backed the full approval of a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug, a key step toward opening insurance coverage to U.S. seniors with early stages of the brain-robbing disease. Read story

Man who told jurors he had ‘fun’ at the Capitol riot is sentenced to 6 years in prison

June 9, 2023, 12:59pm Politics

A Virginia man who told his wife — and a federal jury — that he had “fun” at the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for attacking police as he stormed the building. Read story

White House says Iran is helping Russia build a drone factory east of Moscow for the war in Ukraine

June 9, 2023, 11:40am Nation & World

Iran is providing Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant east of Moscow as the Kremlin looks to lock in a steady supply of weaponry for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, according to a U.S. intelligence finding released by the White House on Friday. Read story

FILE - A German army Main battle tank Leopard 2A6 maneuvers during a visit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to the Training Range in Pabrade, north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, May 30, 2023. Russia claimed it had "annihilated" eight tanks that NATO countries provided to Ukraine. But a visual analysis by The Associated Press shows a grainy black-and-white video Russia released prove it had blown up the German-made Leopard tanks actually documented the destruction of a tractor.

Russia claims it blew up advanced Ukrainian tank, but video shows its helicopter attacked a tractor

FILE - A German army Main battle tank Leopard 2A6 maneuvers during a visit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to the Training Range in Pabrade, north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, May 30, 2023. Russia claimed it had "annihilated" eight tanks that NATO countries provided to Ukraine. But a visual analysis by The Associated Press shows a grainy black-and-white video Russia released prove it had blown up the German-made Leopard tanks actually documented the destruction of a tractor.

June 9, 2023, 7:43am Latest News

A grainy black-and-white gunsight video Russia released this week to bolster a claim its military blew up some of Ukraine’s most fearsome tanks actually documented the destruction of a tractor, according to a visual analysis by The Associated Press. Read story

FILE - Evan Milligan, center, plaintiff in Merrill v. Milligan, an Alabama redistricting case that could have far-reaching effects on minority voting power across the United States, speaks with reporters following oral arguments at the Supreme Court in Washington, Oct. 4, 2022. Standing behind Milligan are Milligan's counsel Deuel Ross, from left, Letetia Jackson, Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., and Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. A U.S. Supreme Court decision a decade ago that tossed out the heart of the Voting Rights Act continues to reverberate across the country. Republican-led states continue to pass voting restrictions that, in several cases, would have been subject to federal review had the court left the provision intact.

Supreme Court rules in favor of Black voters in Alabama redistricting case

FILE - Evan Milligan, center, plaintiff in Merrill v. Milligan, an Alabama redistricting case that could have far-reaching effects on minority voting power across the United States, speaks with reporters following oral arguments at the Supreme Court in Washington, Oct. 4, 2022. Standing behind Milligan are Milligan's counsel Deuel Ross, from left, Letetia Jackson, Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., and Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. A U.S. Supreme Court decision a decade ago that tossed out the heart of the Voting Rights Act continues to reverberate across the country. Republican-led states continue to pass voting restrictions that, in several cases, would have been subject to federal review had the court left the provision intact.

June 8, 2023, 12:25pm Latest News

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case, ordering the creation of a second district with a large Black population. Read story