April 5, 2024, 1:54pm Latest News
Like many Americans, Richard Bidon says he’d like to see the U.S. government “go back to its original design” — a system of checks and balances developed nearly 240 years ago to prevent any branch, especially the presidency, from becoming too powerful. Read story
April 5, 2024, 8:57am Latest News
President Joe Biden will announce his latest effort to broaden student loan relief next week for new categories of borrowers, according to three people familiar with the plans, nearly a year after the Supreme Court foiled his administration’s first attempt to cancel debt for millions who attended college. Read story
April 5, 2024, 7:49am Nation & World
For the first time in nearly two years, U.S. and Chinese defense officials met this week to discuss unsafe and aggressive ship and aircraft incidents between the two militaries in the Pacific region, restarting a dialogue that Beijing abruptly ended in a dispute involving Taiwan. Read story
April 5, 2024, 7:45am Business
More than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. came through unlicensed dealers who aren’t required to perform background checks over a five-year period, according to new data released Thursday by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives. Read story
April 4, 2024, 1:19pm Latest News
A federal judge refused Thursday to throw out the classified documents prosecution against Donald Trump, turning aside defense arguments that a decades-old law permitted the former president to retain the records after he left office. Read story
April 4, 2024, 1:10pm Latest News
President Joe Biden issued a stark warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that future U.S. support for Israel's Gaza war depends on the swift implementation of new steps to protect civilians and aid workers. Read story
April 4, 2024, 11:34am Politics
Migrant children who wait in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border for the Border Patrol to process them are in the agency’s custody and are subject to a long-standing court-supervised agreement that set standards for their treatment, a judge ruled. Read story
April 4, 2024, 8:17am Politics
The government’s chief human resources agency issued a new rule on Thursday making it harder to fire thousands of federal employees, hoping to head off former President Donald Trump’s promises to radically remake the workforce along ideological lines if he wins back the White House in November. Read story
April 3, 2024, 4:31pm Nation & World
President Joe Biden has faced protests over the conflict in Gaza all over the country, but this week he confronted one inside the White House itself. Read story
April 3, 2024, 1:52pm Latest News
Despite the country’s deep political polarization, most Americans share many core beliefs about what it means to be an American, according to a new poll. Read story
