EPA details push to tighten rules for lead in drinking water

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration took steps Thursday aimed at reducing lead in drinking water, announcing plans to release $2.9 billion in infrastructure billRead More

US pulls out of settlement talks in family separation suits

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government withdrew Thursday from settlement negotiations to end lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who were forcibly separated underRead More

GOP governors challenge Pentagon over Guard vaccine mandate

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ Republican governor on Thursday told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the state will not direct its National Guard members toRead More

Biden signs bill hiking US borrowing limit by $2.5 trillion

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill raising the nation’s borrowing limit by $2.5 trillion, avoiding a potentially catastrophic default and resolvingRead More

Jill Biden meets with families, victims of parade crash

First lady Jill Biden met Wednesday with victims of a Christmas parade crash in suburban Milwaukee where six people were killed and dozens were injured after anRead More

Biden picks Michelle Kwan to be ambassador to Belize and Caroline Kennedy to be ambassador to Australia

(CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his intention to nominate Michelle Kwan, a former Olympic figure skater and longtime Democratic activist, to serveRead More

Elizabeth Warren calls for expansion of Supreme Court, saying current court is a threat to democracy

(CNN) — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday called for the US Supreme Court to be expanded with more justices and said that the currentRead More

Biden administration releases previously classified JFK assassination documents

(CNN) — The Biden administration has released a tranche of secret documents that some historians — and conspiracy theorists — hope might shed light on the 1963Read More

Biden pledges `whatever it takes’ to assist tornado victims

DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged to do “whatever it takes, as long as it takes” to help Kentucky andRead More

Elon Musk calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Senator Karen’ in fight over taxes

(CNN) — Senator Elizabeth Warren and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are in the middle of a full-scale Twitter war. Warren called the world’s richest personRead More