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FILE - The United States Steel logo is pictured outside the headquarters building in downtown Pittsburgh, April 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
18 hours ago

Biden will decide on US Steel acquisition after influential panel fails to reach consensus

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A powerful government panel has failed to reach consensus on the possible national security risks of a nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase U.S. Steel.

President Joe Biden speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
21 hours ago

Biden signs defense bill despite objections to ban on transgender health care for military children

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President Joe Biden has signed the annual defense authorization bill into law despite his objections to language banning transgender health care for military children.

FILE - Nate Coulter, executive director of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), looks at a book in the main branch of the public library in downtown Little Rock, Ark., May 23, 2023. An increasing number of conservative states are pushing for measures making it easier to ban or restrict access to books. (AP Photo/Katie Adkins, File)
1 day ago

Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional

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A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.

FILE - President Jimmy Carter views the Panama Canal at the Miraflores Locks in Canal Zone on June 17, 1978. On Friday Carter signed the final Panama Canal Treaties giving control of the canal to Panama in 2000. (AP Photo/Tasnadi, File)
1 day ago

A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can't take it back on his own

Read full article: A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can't take it back on his own

President-elect Donald Trump is decrying rising shipping fees Panama has imposed to use the Panama Canal.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., attends the cocktail hour of New York Young Republican Club's annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
22 hours ago

Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use

Read full article: Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use

The House Ethics Committee’s long-awaited report into Rep. Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations of misconduct, including sex with an underage girl, that tanked the Florida Republican’s nomination to lead the Justice Department.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks at the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, on Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutations

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Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions are sharing a range of emotions, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences.

FILERep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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READ: House Ethics Committee report finds Matt Gaetz paid underage girl for sex while in Congress

Read full article: READ: House Ethics Committee report finds Matt Gaetz paid underage girl for sex while in Congress

The House Ethics Committee has accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs all while the Florida Republican was a member of Congress.

FILE - Washington Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond departs federal court after pleading not guilty to obstruction of justice and other charges, May 19, 2023, in Washington. A trial is underway for a police officer charged with leaking confidential information to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio after the extremist group's members burned a stolen Black Lives Matter banner in the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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An ex-Washington police officer is convicted of lying about leaks to the Proud Boys leader

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A retired police officer in the nation’s capital has been convicted of lying to authorities about leaking confidential information to the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group.

President Joe Biden delivers his remarks at the Democratic National Committee's Holiday Reception at Willard Hotel in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Biden commutes death sentences of 2 convicted in brutal slaying of family on Florida’s Turnpike

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Among 37 federal death row inmates whose sentences were commuted Monday by President Joe Biden are two men who brutally murdered a family in 2006 along Florida’s Turnpike in Port St. Lucie,

A deportation officer with Enforcement and Removal Operations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City field office changes the handcuffs of Wilmer Patricio Medina-Medina from back to front after arresting him during an early morning operation, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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Trump wants mass deportations. A ride-along with immigration officers shows the challenges

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Donald Trump has promised to undertake mass deportations.

Cars pass the 95th Street Red Line Station, the train station currently the farthest south on the line and where the Chicago Transit Authority plans to extend from in 2025, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
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Isolated Chicago communities secure money for a coveted transit project before Trump takes office

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Decades after a former Chicago mayor pledged to extend transit to the city’s far South Side, the federal government is committing to the massive project just before President Joe Biden leaves office.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, and Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump attend the final day of the Republican National Convention, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Lara Trump says she's removing herself from consideration to be Florida senator

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Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, says she’s removing herself from consideration to be a Florida senator.

FILE - Television producer Mark Burnett, left, looks on as President Donald Trump arrives for the National Prayer Breakfast, Feb. 2, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Trump taps 'Apprentice' producer, Mark Burnett, as special envoy to the United Kingdom

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Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with “The Apprentice,” is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters after passing the funding bill to avert the government shutdown at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Shutdown saga exposes new fault lines for Speaker Johnson and tests his grip on the gavel

Read full article: Shutdown saga exposes new fault lines for Speaker Johnson and tests his grip on the gavel

One of the most turbulent sessions of Congress in the modern era is about to make way for the next one.

FILE - A vehicle pushes up pikes of snow after trucks dump their loads of snow in the parking lots of RFK Stadium in Washington, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Senate passes RFK Stadium land bill, giving the Washington Commanders a major off-the-field win

Read full article: Senate passes RFK Stadium land bill, giving the Washington Commanders a major off-the-field win

The Washington Commanders' path to returning to nation's capital is clear after an on-again, off-again saga in Congress ended with a late reprieve.

FILE - The Supreme Court is pictured, Oct. 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
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Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

Read full article: Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct.

Dr. Marvin Dunn leads a tour of Overtown, a historically Black neighborhood near downtown Miami, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, file)
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Florida requires teaching Black history. Some don't trust schools to do it justice

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Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.

Jesus Soriano, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3403 representing the National Science Foundation and several other agencies, poses for a photo in Chevy Chase, Md., after an interview on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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Deal spares federal workers before Christmas but there's concern about possible job cuts under Trump

Read full article: Deal spares federal workers before Christmas but there's concern about possible job cuts under Trump

Johnny Zuagar says he tried to hide his worries about a potential government shutdown from his three boys as he weighs how much to spend on Christmas presents.

FILE - President-elect Donald Trump listens to Elon Musk as he arrives to watch SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lift off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Nov. 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Pool via AP, File)
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Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

Read full article: Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

President Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk used his outsize influence on X to help kill a bipartisan funding proposal that would have prevented a government shutdown, spreading multiple false claims in the process.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, as she reads 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, visit patients and families at the Children's National Hospital in Washington, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Biden and the first lady bring holiday cheer to patients and families at a children's hospital

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President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, brought some holiday cheer to patients and families at a children's hospital in Washington.