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WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee, vowed Monday to prioritize combating extremist violence with an initial fo...
by Michael Balsamo, Eric Tucker and Mary Clare Jalonick - February 22, 2021CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous...
by Marcia Dunn - February 22, 2021The family of a father and son detained for years in Iran appealed Monday to President Joe Biden to make the freeing of Iranian American detainees a conditio...
by Ellen Knickmeyer - February 22, 2021Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday he will not back Donald Trump if the former president runs for the White House in 2024, saying “it’s time” to move o...
by Hope Yen - February 21, 2021WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Merrick Garland was nominated by the White House for a job, Republicans wouldn’t even meet with him.
by Michael Balsamo - February 21, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Amid data showing more than twice as many Black students are suspended than their white peers, Louisiana’s educators are launching a ...
by The Associated Press - February 21, 2021WASHINGTON (AP) — It sounded so ambitious at first blush: 100 million vaccination shots in 100 days.
by Zeke Miller - February 21, 2021HOUSTON (AP) — Two days before the storm began, Houston’s chief elected official warned her constituents to prepare as they would for a major hurricane. Many...
by Nomaan Merchant - February 21, 2021CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space station supply ship named after the Black NASA mathematician featured in the movie “Hidden Figures” rocketed into orbit S...
by Marcia Dunn - February 20, 2021This week’s killer freeze in the U.S. was no surprise.
by Seth Borenstein - February 20, 2021BERLIN (AP) — Collective sighs of relief could be heard from many European capitals Saturday after U.S. President Joe Biden made clear in his first major for...
by David Rising - February 20, 2021WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden walked into the Oval Office for the first time as president a month ago, his pens were ready. Already.
by Jonathan Lemire and Calvin Woodward - February 20, 2021DALLAS (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took his family on vacation to Cancun, Mexico, this week as his home state was paralyzed by a deadly winter storm, drawing ...
by Steve Peoples and Jake Bleiberg - February 19, 2021TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Bob Dole, a former longtime senator and the 1996 Republican presidential nominee, announced Thursday that he has been diagnosed with Stag...
by John Hanna - February 19, 2021President Joe Biden is pushing for K-8 schools to fully reopen in his first 100 days. But don’t look for Omeisha Snape’s kids in the classrooms.
by Carolyn Thompson - February 19, 2021