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Biden pressed to pardon Black leader Marcus Garvey posthumously

Marcus Garvey in military uniform during a Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.) parade in New York City, in 1922.
Updated Jan 4, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Hillary Clinton, Bono and more awarded Biden Presidential Medal of Freedom

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House on January 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Biden is awarding 19 recipients with the nation's highest civilian honor.
Updated Jan 4, 2025 - Politics & Policy

In photos: Jimmy Carter memorial services begin with Georgia procession

Former and current U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to the Carter detail, move the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter, at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center on January 4, 2025 in Americus, Georgia.
Updated Jan 4, 2025 - Business

The hot new publishing platform is a legal filing

Illustration of a stack of legal papers weighing down a scale
Updated Jan 4, 2025 - Energy & Climate

How Trump might rewire Bidenomics

Photo illustration of President Trump and Joe Biden surrounded by data visualizations.

Documentary tackles the rise of Native American disenrollments

George Adams, an elder in the Nooksack tribe in Washington, looks over canoe paddlers before giving a ceremonial speech.
Jan 4, 2025 - Business

30-year mortgage rate hits 6-month high

Updated Jan 3, 2025
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Timeline, suspect and victims: Latest on the New Orleans terrorist attack

Gov. Jeff Landry, flanked by law enforcement, walks down Bourbon Street.
Jan 3, 2025 - World

Scoop: Biden notifies Congress of $8 billion arms sale to Israel

Biden and Netanyahu smiling

House approves new rules protecting Mike Johnson from ouster

Mike Johnson, wearing a blue suit and pointing his finger at a colleague while surrounded by brown leather chairs.
Jan 3, 2025 - World

Trump appoints (and rebukes) Morgan Ortagus as deputy Middle East envoy

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Updated Jan 3, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump to be sentenced before Inauguration Day but faces no jail time

President-elect Donald Trump arrives on New Year's Eve at his Mar-A-Lago club on December 31, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump continues to fill posts in his upcoming administration ahead of his January 20 inauguration. (Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)

GOP hardliners issue demand list for Mike Johnson to stay speaker

Reps. Clyde, Cloud and Harris huddling on the House floor while surrounded by colleagues.
Updated Jan 3, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Mike Johnson reelected as speaker after brief revolt

House Speaker Mike Johnson, wearing a blue suit and speaking into microphones while flanked by press and staff.

Scoop: Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration

Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Trump tour a Mac Pro assembly plant in Austin in 2019. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

New Orleans leaders face questions over preventability of terror attack

A person kneels down and mourns next to a row of yellow roses wrapped in red tissue paper. Behind them are two bright yellow sidewalk blockades.

Trump's victory erases GOP skepticism of election results, poll finds

Biden to visit New Orleans after Bourbon Street attack

Photo shows Joe Biden

2025 climate reality check: Trump threats, coal demand and AI

Illustration of a caution sign-shaped continent on a globe.
Updated Jan 3, 2025 - Business

Biden blocks Nippon's takeover of U.S. Steel

President Biden speaking in front of steelworkers in April 2024
Jan 3, 2025 - World

Trump's uphill trade battle with China

Major winter storm to usher in Arctic blast for 230 million people

Map showing projected temperature anomalies in the lower atmosphere on Jan. 8, with widespread colder than average temperatures across the Midwest, South and East.
Jan 3, 2025 - Health

Use of diabetes and anti-obesity drugs surges nationwide

Jan 3, 2025 - Business

Musk rocks U.K. politics with attacks on PM and support for far right

Elon Musk and his son, X AE A-Xii, arrive to a New Year's Eve party hosted by President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Attacks fuel D.C.'s pre-inauguration security fears

The Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is visible as new temporary protective fencing is erected near the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 1, 2025 in Washington, DC.

OpenAI, Google and Runway race to generate AI video

Illustration of a movie clapper with binary code in place of the stripes

FBI shares new details of suspect in D.C. pipe bombs plant on Jan. 6 eve

A screenshot of the person suspected of placing pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee on Jan. 5, 2021.

Republicans to watch during Mike Johnson's House speaker election

Updated Jan 2, 2025 - Business

Biden's net neutrality rules struck down by appeals court

Schumer speaks at a press conference at the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
Updated Jan 2, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Cheney cheered as Biden awards her the Presidential Citizens Medal

Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney receives the Presidential Citizens Medal from US President Joe Biden during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 2, 2025.
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