President Joe Biden highlighted his $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill's $1,400 payments at a White House meeting Friday, while senators worked into .......Read more

Bleary-eyed senators passed their 24th straight hour of negotiating passage of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.....Read more

Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in history, claims she was racially profiled by a security guard who "tailed me on my walk home tonight."....Read more

Ruling from Minnesota court of appeals could delay Derek Chauvin's trial, which is due to start Monday.....Read more

Voting rights groups led bus tours, knocked on 1 million doors and gave out food at community events to achieve an unprecedented Black voter turnout in .......Read more

Pope Francis held a historic meeting with a senior Shiite cleric in Iraq Saturday and appealed for greater interfaith unity visiting the birthplace of Abraham, .......Read more

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia has long proclaimed itself “Almost Heaven,” a nod to a song and soaring mountaintop vistas. Now some joke the .......Read more

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been declared politically dead before, but this time the challenges facing him are steeper. For the first time .......Read more

The new U.S. president starts his days with an early morning workout in the gym of the White House residence, watching MSNBC or CNN, and ends them at a .......Read more

HAPPENING NOW ON THE SENATE FLOOR: The Senate is working its way through final GOP amendments to President JOE BIDEN's pandemic relief bill after .......Read more

SALT LAKE CITY — The statewide mask mandate will be lifted by April 10 under a bill that passed the Utah State Legislature in the final hours of the 2021 .......Read more

The Biden administration is facing an increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing into the United States, placing added strain on a system .......Read more

President Biden on Friday fired Sharon Gustafson, who was appointed by former President Trump as the general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity .......Read more

The governor of South Carolina took a victory lap after his gubernatorial colleagues in Texas and Mississippi lifted their mask mandates, touting the fact that his .......Read more

San Francisco school officials plan to reopen classrooms for in-person learning beginning on April 12, officials announced Friday night, after months of bitter .......Read more

Two of President Joe Biden's top priorities — fighting climate change, protecting workers — collide as he prepares a sweeping, green reboot of the U.S. .......Read more

The Public Utility Commission ignored its independent monitor's recommendation to retroactively reduce the market price for power for at least part of the week .......Read more

ALBANY, N.Y. — As she closes in on the selection of an outside investigator to examine claims of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the state .......Read more

The husband of Mayor Jean Stothert of Omaha, Neb., was found dead at the family's home Friday afternoon, according to reports.....Read more

While Alabama, Mississippi and Texas will soon join more than a dozen other U.S. states without statewide mask requirements, many major retailers and .......Read more

Jacob Chansley, also known as the "QAnon Shaman," faced rebuke from a federal judge on Friday after the alleged Capitol rioter appeared in a “60 Minutes .......Read more

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's thumbs-down vote on Friday reminded many of when the late Sen. John McCain tanked Republicans' efforts to overthrow Obamacare.....Read more

Mexico is inching closer to becoming the world's largest legal cannabis market as lawmakers prepare to debate a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana.....Read more

Dr. Fauci warned Friday that the US may soon be hit with a spike in COVID-19 cases — even though the country has administered more vaccine shots than any .......Read more

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - Wisconsin state health officials say another variant of the COVID-19 virus was found in Wisconsin. The South Africa variant, referred to .......Read more

Floridians ages 16-21 with medical conditions that make them vulnerable for COVID-19 can get vaccines at Nicklaus Children's Hospital, with signups beginning .......Read more

Hate crimes against Asians and Asian Americans jumped dramatically in major U.S. cities in 2020.....Read more

In a press release, the governor claimed the proposed bill would punish states like Idaho for remaining open during the pandemic.....Read more

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has found takers around the world, as Western powers like the EU and the US monopolize doses from Pfizer and Moderna.....Read more

Gov. Doug Ducey announced on March 5 that capacity limits are lifted. Here's what that means for restaurants and bars serving dine-in.....Read more

Illinois' first case of a more contagious COVID-19 variant from Brazil has been identified in a patient in Chicago.....Read more

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is giving an update from Cleveland Friday afternoon, expected to announce details on new state-sponsored mass vaccination sites in .......Read more

At least six employees of CenterPoint Energy were transported to local hospitals Friday after what the company described as a "natural gas incident."....Read more

The day after he single-handedly delayed the U.S. Senate's debate on President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill for 11 hours, Republican Senator .......Read more

The mainstream media ran wild with claims pro-Trump extremists could breach the Capitol on Thursday, but the hysteria turned out to be much ado about .......Read more

Texas governor Greg Abbott said Facebook and Twitter are leading a "dangerous movement to silence conservative voices and religious freedoms" as he .......Read more

The media vilified him for rejecting harsh lockdowns. But Florida's Covid-19 numbers are better than California's or New York's, and its economy thrives.....Read more

During the week of Feb. 21, more than 7700 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were left over after mass vaccination events across the state, according to state data.....Read more

A solid majority of Americans say they approve of President Joe Biden's early job performance, according to a new survey, with even more respondents giving .......Read more

Part of I-270 North closed Friday evening following an officer-involved fatal shooting on the Southeast Side, according to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal .......Read more

Doctors are noticing an interesting side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine that's impacting mammograms for women.....Read more

The 25 people who were killed or injured in the SUV crash near the U.S. border in California were from Mexico and Guatemala, consulate officials said.....Read more

The governments agreed to temporarily suspend tariffs on billions of dollars of products as they search for a settlement to a long-running clash over subsidies .......Read more

A Walled Lake marijuana dispensary seemed like an ideal place to sell Girl Scout cookies after some local troops set up shop outside the facility and sold 1000 .......Read more

Three men accused of plotting last year to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are back in court for a hearing to determine whether the case goes to trial.....Read more

A Democratic congresswoman has released a nearly 2,000-page report compiling social media posts about the 2020 election from House Republicans who .......Read more

North Carolina became the butt of late night jokes after state health officials said people who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes could get the COVID vaccine.....Read more

The White House supports ending authorizations for military force in place allowing for war in Iraq and against terrorists.....Read more

Rep. Eric Swalwell, one of the House impeachment managers, filed a lawsuit against former President Trump saying he must be held financially responsible for .......Read more

A St. Louis-area man fatally shot his estranged wife and two of her children before fleeing with their baby, who was later found safe, and the man killed himself .......Read more

The Dallas Police Department allowed Officer Bryan Riser to continue patrolling for more than a year while investigating whether he ordered two people to be .......Read more

Lawmakers are ramping up pressure on the White House to try to halt the construction of a major Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline, as administration officials .......Read more

All Oregon public schools will offer in-person instruction on or before the weeks of March 29 for K-5 students and April 19 for grades 6-12.....Read more

An Ohio woman accused of trying to abandon her 6-year-old son at a park, dragging him as she drove away and later dumping his body in the Ohio River has .......Read more

The Biden administration is defending the president's decision to prioritize vaccinations for teachers and school staff.....Read more

Extended unemployment benefits, stimulus checks, rental assistance and enhanced food benefits are likely on the way to millions of struggling Americans.....Read more

"Real Time" host Bill Maher had a heated exchange with radio host Charlamagne Tha God over the sexual misconduct allegations against Democratic New York .......Read more

China laid out seven technology areas it will focus research on including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductors and space.....Read more