WASHINGTON — Time growing shorter, President Joe Biden labored to thrash out stubborn final issues with fellow Democrats on his “build back better” agenda Wednesday, wor...
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended without an agreement, top bargainers from both parties said Wednesday, marking t...
Pfizer said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and that it will seek U.S. authorization for this age group soon — a key step toward beginning va...
Immigration push not shielded from filibusters
WASHINGTON — Democrats can't use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs to give millions of imm...
DEL RIO, Texas — The U.S. flew Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland Sunday and tried blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a m...
Poll reveals concerns
Most Americans don’t believe their personal information is secure online and aren’t satisfied with the federal government’s efforts to protect it, a...
NEW YORK — A new study ties the COVID-19 pandemic to an “alarming” increase in obesity in U.S. children and teenagers.
Childhood obesity has been increasing for decades,...
3rd Pfizer shot to be debated
WASHINGTON — Influential government advisers will debate Friday if there’s enough proof that a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is ...
Top 2% of U.S. earners targeted
WASHINGTON — To pay for the massive social plans that President Joe Biden envisions, House Democrats began serious work Tuesday on a maneu...
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Pope Francis honored Slovakian Holocaust victims and atoned for Christian complicity in wartime crimes as he sought to promote reconciliation Mond...
