The Education Department’s civil rights enforcement arm announced Monday it has launched investigations in five states to determine whether statewide policies prohibiting school mask mandates is discriminatory against students with disabilities.
‘We’re doing all we can’: Biden speaks on Hurricane Ida relief efforts
President Joe Biden is set to speak Monday afternoon on Hurricane Ida relief efforts as he meets virtually with a host of leaders involved in the response to the massive storm that has rocked the Gulf Coast.
Jan. 6 committee to ask telecommunications companies to preserve phone records of members of Congress who participated in ‘Stop the Steal’ rally
The House Select Committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot is set to request that a group of telecommunications companies preserve the phone records of a group of GOP members of Congress and former President Donald Trump, as well as members of …
Biden’s presidency of crises pushes White House to its limits
President Joe Biden is confronting an extraordinary confluence of intensifying crises that are pushing a White House already mired in extreme challenges to the limit.
Fact check: Conservative tweeters falsely claim Biden didn’t show up at Dover to honor troops’ remains
On Saturday night, an entirely false claim about President Joe Biden went viral among conservatives on Twitter.
How the White House and Democrats hope to survive Biden’s political bruises
President Joe Biden was likely to lose Democratic control of Congress before last week’s carnage in Afghanistan. That’s more likely now.
Nine family members, including children, killed in US strike in Kabul targeting suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber, relative says
The United States carried out a defensive airstrike in the Afghan capital, Kabul, targeting a suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber who posed an “imminent” threat to the airport, US Central Command said Sunday.
Biden is holding together the Democratic Party in Washington — for now
Almost a year before Joe Biden was elected president, fellow Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez remarked in a New York Magazine profile that “in any other country,” she and Biden “would not be in the same party.”
Biden attends dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base for those killed in Afghanistan
President Joe Biden will attend the dignified transfer of those American service members killed in Thursday’s attack in Afghanistan, the White House announced Sunday. Biden will take Air Force One to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to attend the digni…
Biden administration pledges ‘safe passage’ for Americans in Afghanistan after withdrawal deadline
The Biden administration is committed to a “safe passage” of Americans and Afghans who helped the US government after the withdrawal deadline from Afghanistan, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday.