Nation and World
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Hunter Biden’s exes are called as witnesses in his federal gun trial to detail his drug use
Jun 04, 2024 7:22 am - WILMINGTON, Del. — Hunter Biden's ex-wife and a former girlfriend testified Wednesday in his gun trial about finding his crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia as prose...
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Many Americans are still shying away from EVs despite Biden's push, an AP-NORC/EPIC poll finds
Jun 04, 2024 7:20 am - WASHINGTON — Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase. High prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking p...
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How Mexico, bastion of machismo, got a female president before the U.S.
Jun 04, 2024 7:11 am - Mexico is famous for its macho culture. Women here didn’t win the right to vote for president until 1953 — three decades after their U.S. counterparts. As recently as nin...
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‘I am the luckiest man in the world’: Centenarian veterans share their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
Jun 04, 2024 7:10 am - COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — World War II veterans from the United States, Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that hel...
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Biden prepares a tough executive order that would shut down asylum after 2,500 migrants arrive a dayJun 03, 2024 2:56 pm - The White House is telling lawmakers that President Joe Biden is preparing to sign off on an executive order that would shut down asylum requests to the U.S.-Mexico borde...
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Mexico awakes with joy, fear, market jitters to first woman elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum
Jun 03, 2024 2:23 pm - MEXICO CITY — Hours after declaring victory, Mexico’s newly elected president, the first woman to win the job, faced a market meltdown Monday and a tough path toward reco...
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Proposed Gaza cease-fire puts Netanyahu at a crossroads that could shape his legacy
Jun 03, 2024 2:18 pm - TEL AVIV, Israel — The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a crossroads, with either path likely to shape...
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A Black medic wounded on D-Day saved dozens of lives. He's finally being posthumously honored
Jun 03, 2024 2:15 pm - WASHINGTON — Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take part in the D-Day invasion of France during World War II, is being posthumous...
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After crackdown on Hong Kong, overseas communities carry the torch to keep Tiananmen memories alive
Jun 03, 2024 8:00 am - HONG KONG — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China's history, was b...
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CEOs got hefty pay raises in 2023, widening the gap with the workers they oversee
Jun 03, 2024 7:20 am - NEW YORK — The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at ...