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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Washington.

Karoline Leavitt, youngest White House press secretary, will make her debut in the briefing room

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Washington.

January 28, 2025, 8:21am Politics

Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary, will make her debut in the briefing room on Tuesday. Read story

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, Dec. 9, 2024.

Netanyahu hopes to meet Trump in Washington as soon as next week, US officials say

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, Dec. 9, 2024.

January 28, 2025, 8:16am Politics

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington as early as next week, according to two U.S. officials familiar with preliminary planning for the trip. Read story

FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services, speaks during a meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/J.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s famous name and controversial views collide in his bid for top health job

FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services, speaks during a meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/J.

January 27, 2025, 8:08am Health Wire

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said vaccines are not safe. His support for abortion access has made conservatives uncomfortable. And farmers across the Midwest are nervous over his talk of banning corn syrup and pesticides from America’s food supply. Read story

Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting bar for people convicted of some crimes

January 27, 2025, 8:05am Nation & World

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft. Read story

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth walks into the Pentagon with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., right, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 in Washington.

Air Force restores use of Tuskegee Airmen training videos as Hegseth starts first day

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth walks into the Pentagon with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., right, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 in Washington.

January 27, 2025, 8:04am Politics

The Air Force restored the use of training material referring to the storied Tuskegee Airmen after a temporary delay to edit its courses to meet the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, the service said, resolving an issue roiling as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth began his first… Read story

FILE - A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021.

CIA believes COVID most likely originated from lab

FILE - A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021.

January 26, 2025, 1:39pm Health

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at China even while acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion. Read story

A Border Patrol agent walks toward a gap in one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States on Thursday in San Diego.

Democrats splintered over immigration

A Border Patrol agent walks toward a gap in one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States on Thursday in San Diego.

January 26, 2025, 1:39pm Nation & World

When Donald Trump took office in 2017 with promises to crack down on immigration, he was met by widespread protests that filled churches, airports and union halls as Democratic lawmakers vowed to fight the new Republican president at every turn. Read story

Elon Musk reacts as President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a rally ahead of the 60th Presidential Inauguration, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, in Washington.

What Americans think about Trump and Musk’s plans for the federal government: AP-NORC poll

Elon Musk reacts as President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a rally ahead of the 60th Presidential Inauguration, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, in Washington.

January 24, 2025, 2:15pm Latest News

Americans see the federal government as rife with corruption, inefficiency and red tape — but they’re less sure about whether Elon Musk is the right person to fix it. Read story

FILE - People participating in the March for Life walk past the Supreme Court, Jan. 19, 2024, in Washington.

Trump and Vance join March for Life anti-abortion activists in celebrating the movement’s gains

FILE - People participating in the March for Life walk past the Supreme Court, Jan. 19, 2024, in Washington.

January 24, 2025, 12:56pm Nation & World

These are heady times for participants in the annual March for Life. Anti-abortion protestors gathered for decades to call for an appeal of Roe v. Wade, which had provided a constitutional right for an abortion. Now, with the repeal of Roe in 2022, they are now on the inside rather… Read story

State Department freezes new funding for nearly all US aid programs worldwide

January 24, 2025, 12:38pm Politics

The State Department on Friday froze new funding for almost all U.S. foreign assistance, making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue. Read story