TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — New federal court rulings are narrowing the Biden administration’s enforcement of a rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination and allowing critics to limit it even further school by school. The rule is to take effect on Aug. 1. A federal judge in Missouri blocked enforcement in six additional states, bringing…
Former President Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are expressing concerns about President Joe Biden’s candidacy for the White House. The move comes just hours before former President Donald Trump is expected to accept the party’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, an address highly anticipated after Saturday’s assassination attempt.…
The Republican National Convention heads into its second day — now with Donald Trump officially as its presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate. Trump energized the crowd Monday night by entering the arena with a bandage on his right ear after being injured during an assassination attempt Saturday.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s ability to run for reelection faces crucial tests Thursday. He will be fielding questions at a highly anticipated press conference that many Democrats will be watching for signs he’s up for another four-year term. And he sent his campaign team to meet privately with skeptical senators on Capitol Hill,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is getting back on the campaign trail at his flagship Miami golf resort as Democrats face tough calls over President Joe Biden’s reelection chances. Ever since his dismal debate performance, Democrats have been wrestling with whether the 81-year-old Biden should continue as the party’s nominee. Biden has stood…
Former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until Sept. 18. The judge agreed Tuesday to put it off while weighing the possible impact of a new Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. Trump had been scheduled to face sentencing July 11 on his New York conviction on felony charges…
Stocks are barely budging on Wall Street as markets wait for a key report on inflation. The S&P 500 was down less than 0.1% in afternoon trading Thursday. The Nasdaq composite was up 0.3%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 19 points. Walgreens Boots Alliance sank more than 24% after reporting results that fell…
SQUAM LAKE, N.H. (AP) — A heat wave is moving closer to the breaking point from the Midwest to New England as millions of people sweat it out for another day. The National Weather Service says the heat will peak Thursday in the eastern Great Lakes and New England, and on Friday or the weekend…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking an expansive election year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. It comes after the Democratic president’s own aggressive immigration crackdown at the southern border earlier this month that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers. The White…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. last year. It marked the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. The justices concluded that the abortion opponents lacked the legal right…