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The Palestinian Authority says it has given the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to American forensic experts

The Palestinian Authority says it has given the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to American forensic experts.

The deadliest smuggling attempt in U.S. history underscores the limitations of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s massive border security operation.

The Supreme Court's ruling on carbon emission controls on power plants this past week has cast light on the world of federal regulation.

The proposal brought immediate backlash from environmentalists who accused Biden of betraying the climate cause, while oil industry officials said it would do little to counter high energy prices.

The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month.

Abortion, guns and religion _ a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term.

The Biden administration is proposing up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska over the next five years.

"We're in the process of looking at all the alternatives," President Biden said.

Democrats and their aligned groups raised more than $80 million in the week after the Supreme Court stripped away a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says setbacks for President Joe Biden’s climate efforts at home have “slowed the pace” of some of the commitments from other countries to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuel pollution in diplomacy abroad.

Two custom officials testified in Brittney Griner’s trial after she was detained at an airport for having cannabis oil. She’s facing 10 years in jail.

García served as the president of the University of Texas at Brownsville until it merged with the University of Texas-Pan American to become the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is the first Mexican American woman to lead a college or university in the United States.

President Joe Biden met with Democratic governors Friday afternoon to discuss ways their states are protecting abortion access and continuing to push abortion as an election issue in November.

The president will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, who also include Oscar-winning Denzel Washington, the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and soccer Olympian Megan Rapinoe.

Biden will meet with Democratic governors including New York's Kathy Hochul and California's Gavin Newsom to discuss abortion access.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was among 17 people who were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden on Friday.

Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins urged countries struggling with inflation to accept it as a small price to pay, as "Ukrainians are paying with their lives."

The full list includes honorees from Hollywood, sports, politics, military, academia, and civil rights and social justice advocacy.

In Madrid this week, NATO laid out a bold plan for military expansion in response to Putin’s war. But can its member states overcome political divisions at home?

The White House says President Joe Biden will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles, actor Denzel Washington and the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, with whom Biden served in the Senate.

Some 2,000 migrants, most Venezuelans, have walked out of the southern Mexico city of Tapachula en masse to pressure authorities into allowing them to continue to the United States border at a time attention is focused on immigration

California’s governor should know that more stimulus will lead to rising prices.

Listening to “Memories” calmed Trump down. But to keep presidents stable, they would be better off llstening to this motley group of characters.

"The Late Late Show" host comically filled in for White House staffers but the president got in the best line.

Summer travel is underway across the globe, but a full recovery from two years of coronavirus could last as long as the pandemic itself.

Instead of acting the statesman in a time of crisis, the Turkish president played parochial politics. He has little to show for it.

WNBA star Brittney Griner has gone on trial in a Russian court on charges of possessing cannabis oil.

A new poll finds a growing percentage of Americans calling out abortion or women’s rights as priorities for the government in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, especially among Democrats and those who support abortion access.

More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden’s hope for saving the Earth from the devastating effects of climate change may not be dead.

Stunning new revelations about former President Donald Trump's fight to overturn the 2020 election have exposed growing political vulnerabilities just as he eyes another presidential bid.

Sweden and Finland were approved to join NATO, but there are still some requirements the bloc needs to meet before they become official members.

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The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the Biden administration on the environment, but gave it a small victory on immigration in two decisions announced Thursday. AP reporter Mark Sherman explains. (June 30)

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is threatening to derail a bill designed to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the United States if Democrats revive their stalled climate and social policy package.

Democrats have been trying to woo Sen. Joe Manchin back to the table for months while also seeking to pass a major bipartisan piece of Biden's agenda.

Washington summers are always miserable, but this one will be worse.

Facing down the threats that the two men pose to democracy has become the defining challenge of Biden’s Presidency.

She is the 116th justice to serve on the Supreme Court and its first Black woman.

Is the president more interested in passing a bill or placating Democratic interest groups?

The Supreme Court’s new climate change ruling is likely to hinder the Biden administration’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and make the electric grid carbon-free by 2035.

Democrats have a growing sense of panic about conservative advances but are not seeing a president who shares their urgency.

Jamie Foxx, with help from Tom Brady, broke the news that he'll star alongside Cameron Diaz in a new Netflix film, her first movie in eight years.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday, becoming the first Black woman to serve as a justice. (June 30)

The Trump administration created the Migrant Protection Protocols, also called 'remain in Mexico,' in 2019 before the Biden administration canceled it in 2021. The ruling sends the case back to a Texas federal court.

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to be sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday.

The president has been under pressure to take as much executive action as possible to protect abortion rights, although his options are limited.

The Supreme Court faces historically low confidence ratings from the public and is being criticized for overturning abortion rights.

President Joe Biden suspended the program on his first day in office in January 2021. But some lower courts ordered it reinstated.

The high court said a cap on power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions that forces a transition to other fuels may be a “sensible” solution to the climate crisis, but that Congress did not give the Environmental Protection Agency the broad authority to make such requirements. Texas was one of 17 states that joined in the suit.

The Trump administration created the Migrant Protection Protocols, also called “remain in Mexico,” in 2019 before the Biden administration canceled it in 2021. The ruling sends the case back to a Texas federal court.

The Supreme Court says the Biden administration can scrap a Trump-era immigration policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration courts.

The court's ruling could complicate the Biden administration's plans to combat climate change.

President Joe Biden says he would support an exception to the Senate filibuster to protect access to abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade.

In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court has limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Cities and states can apply for federal aid to rectify harm caused by roadways built primarily through lower-income, Black communities in the 1950s.

Biden said he would support a suspension to the Senate filibuster rule to codify the right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade.

The dissonant realities of President Joe Biden’s second year in office were on display Thursday as he wound up a five-day trip to Europe that highlighted both the key U.S. role in mounting a strong allied response to Vladimir Putin’s aggression and the domestic turmoil that is dragging Biden down at home.

OPEC+ has been slowly returning the nearly 10 million barrels per day it agreed to pull from the market in April 2020.

A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.3% in May from a year earlier, unchanged from its level in April.

Lots of factors, especially inflation, likely account for the president’s unpopularity. Is there any realistic chance of recovery?

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said he requested meetings with federal authorities, including President Joe Biden, following the deaths of 53 migrants in San Antonio earlier this week.

Jackson, 51, will be sworn as the court's 116th justice Thursday, just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires.

"I'm probably one of the few people in the world that doesn't think of 'politics' as a dirty word," Gayle Manchin said.

The transportation secretary announces a first-of-its-kind pilot program aimed at helping reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is launching a $1 billion pilot program aimed at helping reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday launched a $1 billion first-of-its-kind pilot program aimed at helping reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects, pledging wide-ranging help to dozens of communities despite the program’s limited dollars. Under the Reconnecting Communities program, cities and states can now apply for the federal aid over five years to rectify harm caused by roadways that were built primarily through lower-income, Black communities after the 1950s creation of the interstate highway system. New projects could include rapid bus transit lines to link disadvantaged neighborhoods to jobs; caps built on top of highways featuring green spaces, bike lanes and pedestrian walkways to allow for safe crossings over the roadways; repurposing former rail lines; and partial removal of highways.

The awkward moment was captured on video when the two leaders met at a gala dinner during the NATO Summit in Madrid.

Tony Ornato and Robert Engel were "very, very close" to Trump and have been accused of being his "enablers and yes-men," Carol Leonnig said on MSNBC.

The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing nations have decided to boost production of crude by an amount that will likely do little to relieve high gasoline prices at the pump and energy-fueled inflation plaguing the global economy.

The head of NATO says an unstable world could get even more dangerous if the alliance does not remain strong and united.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will increase its troop presence in Latvia as part of NATO’s commitment to strengthen its deterrence measures along Russia’s border.

President Joe Biden’s point man for global energy problems knows, he says, that transitioning away from the climate-wrecking pollution of fossil fuels is the only way to go.

Last week Clarence Thomas achieved two long-sought goals: expanding gun rights and overturning Roe v. Wade’s nationwide protection for abortion.

A new poll shows about half of Americans say former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in what happened on Jan. 6.

The migrant truck full of bodies had victims from at least four different countries, and authorities are having trouble identifying them.

Donald Trump has endorsed a Republican running against Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who last week gave powerful testimony to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has issued a subpoena to former White House counsel Pat Cipollone.

The House Jan. 6 committee has now heard dramatic testimony from former White House aides and others about Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

A New York judge sentenced singer R. Kelly to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi receives Communion at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, despite her support for abortion rights.

The nation’s first Native American U.S. treasurer comes from a line of chiefs who instilled the importance of keeping her tribe healthy and “leaving footprints” to follow for those who come behind.

Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in President Donald Trump's first impeachment investigation, was sentenced Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes. (June 29) (AP Video/Larry Neumeister)

NATO has for the first time singled out China as one of its strategic priorities for the next decade, warning about its growing military ambitions, confrontational rhetoric toward Taiwan, and increasingly close ties to Russia.

Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will officially retire on Thursday, paving the way for President Biden's appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in to the lifetime position to replace him, the court said on Wednesday.

The high court on Wednesday allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

GettyLeaders of NATO member countries, including the United States, are cheering the decision to welcome Finland and Sweden into the alliance Wednesday as a bulwark against Russian aggression in Europe.But Russia might be coming for European countries beyond Ukraine in approximately a year’s time anyway, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Wednesday.“I can say what we need: We need security guarantees, and you have to find a place for Ukraine in the common security space. There will be

A new poll shows an overwhelming and growing majority of Americans say the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction, including nearly 8 in 10 Democrats.

An overwhelming and growing majority of Americans say the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction, including nearly 8 in 10 Democrats, according to a new poll that finds deep pessimism about the economy plaguing President Joe Biden. Eighty-five percent of U.S. adults say the country is on the wrong track, and 79% describe the economy as poor, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The findings suggest Biden faces fundamental challenges as he tries to motivate voters to cast ballots for Democrats in November’s midterm elections.

An associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment investigation was sentenced Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes.

The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and natural gas sales from public lands since President Joe Biden took office.

When the leaders of Finland, Sweden and Turkey met with NATO’s chief this week, some remained pessimistic the meeting would lessen Turkey’s objections to the Nordic pair’s historic request to join NATO.

President Joe Biden says the U.S. is enhancing its military presence in Europe for the long haul to bolster regional security after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is warning Finland and Sweden that if they welcome NATO troops and military infrastructure onto their territory, Russia will respond in kind.

NATO has declared Russia the “most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security.

A rare Republican who supports abortion rights found success in Colorado in the first primary elections held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Tuesday asking for more resources and a meeting with him, describing a humanitarian crisis that his office needs help with and pointing to Monday’s migrant tragedy as the latest reason.

To immigration experts, the astounding loss of life illustrates just how difficult it is to stem migration into the country, even as Abbott has spent the last year pouring billions of state dollars into securing the border.