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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that the U.S. is investing more than $100 million in the Caribbean region to crack down on weapons trafficking, help alleviate Haiti’s humanitarian crisis and support climate change initiatives.

President Joe Biden has invited thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals to the White House to celebrate Pride Month.

Vice President Kamala Harris says federal agencies are taking new steps to stop racial discrimination in appraising home values by proposing a rule intended to ensure that the automated formulas used to price housing are fair.

President Joe Biden has lauded the sacrifice of generations of U.S. troops who died fighting for their country as he marked Memorial Day with a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will commemorate Memorial Day at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

A sea of black, gold and gray will welcome Vice President Kamala Harris as the first woman to deliver a commencement speech at the storied U.S. Military Academy.

As concerns grow over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, the nation’s financial watchdog says it’s working to ensure that companies follow the law when using AI.

President Joe Biden has announced a new government strategy to fight hate, bias and violence directed at Jews.

Negotiators from the White House met over the debt limit with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s emissaries at the Capitol.

A MTV special on mental health that was expected to feature Vice President Kamala Harris next week has been postponed.

Pandemic-era rules on COVID-19 testing for White House journalists are being loosened as the public health emergency declaration expires Thursday.

President Joe Biden celebrated Cinco de Mayo on Friday by stepping out for quesadilla and tacos at a food hall in Washington.

Britain’s competition watchdog is opening a review of the artificial intelligence market, focusing on the technology underpinning chatbots like ChatGPT.

Vice President Kamala Harris has met with the heads of Google, Microsoft and two other companies developing artificial intelligence.

Computer scientists who helped build the foundations of today’s artificial intelligence technology are warning of its dangers, but that doesn’t mean they agree on what those dangers are or how to prevent them.

Howard University is turning to an experienced scholar of the African diaspora to serve as its new university president.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris feted about 150 of the Democratic Party’s top donors in Washington Friday evening.

Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to play a critical role in next year's election as President Joe Biden seeks a second term.

Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off the state visit of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol with a tour of a NASA facility as the Biden administration looks to deepen ties with a close ally that it sees as only growing in importance in an increasingly complicated Indo-Pacific.

President Joe Biden on Monday welcomed to the Oval Office the three Tennessee lawmakers who faced expulsion for participating in gun control protests at their statehouse.

President Joe Biden is expected to tap Julie Rodriguez, a senior White House adviser, to manage his reelection campaign.

Now that Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox News ended in a $787 million settlement, what will be the impact on media outlets that appeal to conservatives.

Returning to Florida to discuss climate change, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that $562 million will be spent on 149 projects around the country aimed at improving resilience to threats such as rising seas and the kinds of coastal flooding that recently slammed the southeast part of the state.

The Biden administration is set to announce more than $80 million in funding Thursday in a push to produce more solar panels in the U.S., make solar energy available to more people, and pursue superior alternatives to the ubiquitous sparkly panels made with silicon.

Three Tennessee lawmakers who faced expulsion votes after participating in gun protests will visit the White House on Monday.

President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, made $579,514 last year and paid $137,658 in federal income taxes.

Vice President Kamala Harris is urging Americans to take action during “a critical point in our nation’s history” as thousands of people protested new limits to abortion rights in demonstrations across the country.

The White House has proposed a federal rule to limit how law enforcement and state officials collect medical records if they investigate women who flee their home states to seek abortions elsewhere.

Poland’s prime minister has flown to the United States for meetings aimed at strengthening the economic and defense cooperation of the two nations.

Two expelled Black Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee say they want to be reappointed, then elected back to their seats.

Vice President Kamala Harris has made a last-minute trip to Tennessee to support two Democratic lawmakers who were expelled by the Republican-controlled state House for their role in a protest following a deadly school shooting in Nashville.

The Biden administration has unveiled what it calls the largest community solar effort in U.S. history, enough to power 140,000 homes and businesses in three states.

Wherever Vice President Kamala Harris went in Africa on her just-completed trip, her appearances were treated like a homecoming.

Vice President Kamala Harris has visited a farm outside Zambia’s capital that’s using new techniques and technology to boost its vegetable crop as she highlighted ways to secure food supplies in an age of global warming.

Vice President Kamala Harris paused Friday during a whirlwind diplomatic swing through Africa for something much more personal: A visit to the site of her maternal grandfather’s home in Lusaka, where he lived as an Indian public servant in the 1960s.

The global rivalry between the United States and China has been a recurring backdrop during Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Africa.

Vice President Kamala Harris is encouraging Tanzania’s fragile progress toward a more inclusive government as she continues her trip to Africa and the push to strengthen democracy.

During her visit to Ghana, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has announced more than $1 billion in public and private money for women’s economic empowerment in Africa.

Vice President Kamala Harris has visited a site in Ghana where millions of enslaved Africans were held captive before they were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has opened her weeklong trip to Africa by pledging support for Ghana, a democratic pillar in the region that’s being squeezed by an economic crisis and security concerns.

Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in Ghana to begin a weeklong trip to Africa.

Vice President Kamala Harris will try to deepen and reframe U.S. relationships in Africa during a weeklong trip that's the latest and higher profile outreach by the Biden administration as it acts to counter China’s growing influence.

First lady Jill Biden used a Women’s History Month event at the White House to call on men to step up and fight to protect women’s rights.

President Joe Biden donned a green tie and sported shamrocks in a chest pocket as he welcomed Ireland’s prime minister to the White House — two years after the COVID-19 pandemic scuttled the last St. Patrick’s Day meeting.

The first appearance for Howard University in the NCAA Tournament since 1992 included a visit by one of the school’s most prominent alums.

Jalen Wilson had 20 points and seven rebounds for No. 1 seed and defending national champion Kansas in a 96-68 victory over Howard.

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan, on a state visit to South Africa, has urged more security cooperation and trade between the two countries.

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to travel to Africa at the end of March as the United States seeks to pitch itself as a better partner for the continent than China is.

Vice President Kamala Harris says major U.S. laws enacted recently to tackle climate change call for renewed optimism.

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan says that as the East African country’s first female leader, she has brought a new level of political tolerance to the nation.

President Joe Biden’s upcoming budget proposal aims to cut deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade.

President Joe Biden says “history matters, and Black history matters,” a forceful declaration that comes after the state of Florida blocked a new advanced course on African American studies from being taught in its high schools.

Vice President Kamala Harris promoted the Biden administration’s achievements on broadband internet access during a visit to South Carolina.

South Carolina is accustomed to increased attention in the years leading up to presidential elections, given that the state has hosted the South’s first voting contests for several of the last cycles.

The Biden administration is preparing for a worst-case scenario if a conservative federal judge rules in favor of a lawsuit seeking to ban one of the two drugs typically used to induce a medicated abortion.

As Sen_ Tim Scott weighs a potential 2024 presidential candidacy, the South Carolina Republican was in Iowa on Wednesday delivering a message of “a new American sunrise.”.

Estonia's prime minister says once the war in Ukraine ends, Russia must be brought to justice for war crimes as well as for the decision to invade its neighbor if it is to have any chance of developing normal ties with the West.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says Washington has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging Western allies to quicken their military support for Ukraine.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken leaves Washington this week for meetings in Germany, Turkey and Greece.

When President Joe Biden called on the U.S. to address the nation's deadly overdose crisis, it touched off criticism from two sides.

President Joe Biden has made Wisconsin his first stop after his State of the Union address, visiting a training center run by a union near Madison, the state capital.

China says it was smeared in U.S. President Joe Biden's State of the Union address that repeatedly mentioned competition between the two countries.

President Joe Biden is set Tuesday night to deliver his second State of the Union address.

President Joe Biden has exhorted Republicans in his State of the Union address to work with him to “finish the job” of rebuilding the economy and uniting the nation.

The Democratic Party has approved the reordering of its 2024 presidential primary.

President Joe Biden and his Cabinet will embark on a post-State of the Union “blitz” to visit at least 20 states next week to discuss his economic agenda after his Tuesday night address to Congress.

President Joe Biden sounded like a candidate making his case for a second term as he rallied a raucous meeting of national Democrats who chanted, “Four more years!”.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have left a meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with an agreement on how to address the issue of policing in America after the recent killing of Tyre Nichols.

The U.S. Air Force is telling North Dakota leaders it believes a Chinese company’s plan to build a wet corn milling plant near the Grand Forks Air Force Base poses a national security threat.

The funeral for Tyre Nichols is taking place in Memphis, Tennessee, attended by family, friends and civil rights activists.

On the eve of the funeral for Tyre Nichols, who died days after a brutal beating by Memphis police officers, his family are sharing remembrances and expressing grief.

Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, has met Ukrainian refugees at a Berlin synagogue and visited the city’s Holocaust memorial as he wraps up a tour of Poland and Germany focused on Holocaust remembrance and combating rising antisemitism.

Indiana’s high court says it will not immediately consider a challenge to the state’s abortion ban that is based on the argument that the law violates some people’s religious freedoms, leaving that decision to an appeals court, at least for now.

The husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says he was deeply moved by a “solemn and sad” visit to the former site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners have commemorated the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in the final months of World War II.

President Joe Biden says the nation's prayers are with two California cities where 18 people were killed in separate mass shootings over the last week.

Authorities say the 72-year-old gunman who sprayed bullets into a Southern California ballroom dance hall, killing 11 people, had no known connection with the victims and investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the massacre.

President Joe Biden has hosted the Democratic congressional leaders at the White House.

Former Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts was sworn into the U.S. Senate on Monday, replacing Republican Sen. Ben Sasse as the Senate returns from several weeks of recess and begins a new session of closely-divided government.

Women's marches demanding the protection of abortion rights drew thousands of people to the streets across the country on Sunday.

Vice President Kamala Harris is rallying supporters against efforts in Washington and in Republican-led states to restrict abortion on what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe vs.

Vice President Kamala Harris and two cabinet secretaries celebrated the start of construction of a new high-capacity power transmission line between Arizona and California.

Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to Florida on Sunday to speak about abortion on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

President Joe Biden has hosted the Golden State Warriors, who won the 2022 NBA championship, at the White House.

Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, is set to visit Poland and Germany this month amid rising antisemitism.

Denver has been overwhelmed by an unexpected surge in mostly Venezuelan migrants.

Washington Democrat Patty Murray has become the first female president pro tempore of the Senate.

Gov. Greg Abbott reportedly sent the migrants, who arrived at Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence Saturday night. The governor has been busing migrants to Democratic-let cities since April and first sent buses to Harris’ home in September.

Local organizers in Washington say three buses of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in record-setting cold on Christmas Eve.

President Joe Biden is expressing alarm about growing antisemitism in the United States and around the globe and vowing to fight back against the scourge.

Vice President Kamala Harris' husband has visited 988 call center that's part of the recently launched national hotline intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency.

Vice President Kamala Harris has opened the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington by spotlighting Africa’s youthful population.

President Joe Biden has signed gay marriage legislation into law before a celebratory crowd of thousands on the White House South Lawn.

Karen Ruth Bass took a ceremonial oath of office as mayor of Los Angeles and will become the first woman and second Black person to hold the job.

A lawyer for the white gunman who pleaded guilty to state charges in the killing of 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket says he would be willing plead guilty to federal charges if spared the death penalty.

Vice President Kamala Harris has outpaced all her predecessors for the number of tiebreaking votes cast in the Senate.

Raphael Warnock’s victory in swing-state Georgia gives Senate Democrats a 51-49 majority.

Time Magazine has named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy its person of the year.

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, says he's pained by a rise in antisemitism in the United States.