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A White House press briefing featuring the cast of “Ted Lasso” was briefly derailed on Monday after a correspondent and frequent disruptor repeatedly interjected, prompting pushback from the White House Correspondents Association and other reporters. Simon Ateba, a correspondent for Today News Africa, began shouting out as press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stepped to the podium,...

The Biden administration on Monday announced a new award of $197 million toward wildfire resilience through Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funds. On a call with reporters Monday, Vice President Harris, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu said the funding would aid in 100 specific resilience efforts for communities in 22 states. Resilience...

Former President Trump quickly took a swipe Monday at Ron DeSantis, his main potential rival for the GOP presidential nomination, after the Florida governor weighed in on a potential Trump indictment in New York. “Ron DeSanctimonious will probably find out about FALSE ACCUSATIONS & FAKE STORIES sometime in the future, as he gets older, wiser,...

Actor Jason Sudeikis and the cast of “Ted Lasso” joined the White House daily press briefing on Monday ahead of a meeting with President Biden to discuss efforts to address mental health. Sudeikis — who plays the title character on the Apple TV+ show, which has included multiple episodes touching on mental health — called on...

Shortly after their reelection victory in 2012, I was invited as the head of our national seniors’ organization to a meeting at the White House with President Obama and then-Vice President Biden. Social Security and Medicare were prominent issues in that year’s race between Obama/Biden and Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan...

Sports media talk show host Stephen A. Smith went after Fox News star Tucker Carlson this week, blasting the network's top-watched host for his recent treatment of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters. “It pissed me off,” Smith said during a recent episode of his podcast of Carlson's downplaying the...

Washington should ensure any response to the closures at SVB and Signature Bank does not affect the community banks that continue to do right by their customers and hometowns.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) teed off on President Biden’s decision earlier on Monday to veto a bill that would have nixed a Labor Department rule on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. Manchin, who was one of two Senate Democrats to vote with Republicans to overturn the rule on March 1, called Biden’s decision “absolutely...

Story at a glance Americans are pretty happy compared with the rest of the world. That’s according to the latest World Happiness Report, published Monday, which ranked the United States 15th on the list of the world’s happiest countries in 2023, up from 16th place in 2022. The report compiled data from more than 150...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will hold a press briefing Monday after President Biden issued his first veto, striking down a measure that would have prohibited retirement fund managers from considering environmental and other social issues when building an investment portfolio. But Biden has also made several recent gestures signaling an interest in bipartisan...

The Supreme Court on Monday morning heard oral arguments in Arizona v. Navajo Nation, a case revolving around whether the U.S. government is obligated to fulfill Native American reservations’ water needs. At issue is an 1868 treaty under which the federal government guaranteed the nation’s agricultural needs, which the Navajo Nation argues includes water rights....

A U.S. district judge on Monday rejected a motion to combine two defamation lawsuits filed by author E. Jean Carroll against former President Trump into a single trial. Carroll, who has accused Trump of raping her in the 1990s, filed two two defamation suits stemming from two sets of comments Trump made in 2019 and...

A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the implementation of Biden administration water regulations in two states. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, an appointee of former President Trump, on Sunday halted the implementation of the Biden administration's regulation in Texas and Idaho after the states requested the action. The rule in question defines which...

Buster Murdaugh, the surviving son of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh, has denied involvement in the 2015 death of a high school classmate. Buster Murdaugh in a statement to NBC News denounced the “vicious rumors” alleging his involvement in the death of Stephen Smith, who was found dead on a road not far from the Murdaugh...

The White House on Monday called the House Freedom Caucus’s budget proposal a ‘five-alarm fire,’ arguing that its spending cuts would endanger Americans’ safety. The White House referred to the conservative GOP group as the “extreme MAGA Republican House Freedom Caucus” in a statement and said the proposal would be “a disaster for families in at...

An American student was found dead while on spring break in Mexico, amid the State Departments' warnings to avoid the country due to violence.

A report from the United Nations climate change panel doubles down on calls for action to combat planetary warming amid a “rapidly closing window” in a new report released Monday. The latest report from the intergovernmental panel on climate change is a “synthesis” of three recent reports which said that climate change was “unequivocally” caused...

Story at a glance To mark Women’s History Month, USA TODAY announced its annual list of Women of the Year. This year’s honorees include politicians, public figures, and activists working to spark widespread positive change. The diverse list includes more well-known figures like former First Lady Michelle Obama, along with groups of women working together...

In characteristic fashion, Trump denounced Bragg and Willis as partisan. They are both Democrats.

Former President Trump on Monday accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of “interference in a presidential election” as prosecutors investigate a hush-money payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels made amid Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Trump accused Bragg of “breaking the law” by using what he called “discredited testimony” from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who...

New strategic thinking is essential. Shock and awe, as originally conceived, is a good starting point.

Comedians threw some roast-like barbs at their longtime pal Adam Sandler — and included some more pointed shots at former President Trump and a few shoutouts to Paul Pelosi — as they feted the “Billy Madison” star on Sunday at the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The actor and “Saturday Night Live”...

Former President Trump applauded the news on Sunday that Robert Costello, who once served as a legal advisor to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, will testify on Monday before the New York grand jury investigating Trump's alleged involvement in a hush-money scheme. "Just reported that the most important witness to go before the New York...

Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber announced a curfew on Sunday after two fatal shootings over the weekend on Ocean Drive amid an influx of spring-breakers and out-of-city visitors. "As I've said many times, we don't ask for spring break in our city. We don't want spring break in our city. It's too rowdy, brings too...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took aim at the House weaponization subcommittee on Sunday, saying that he disagrees with Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) recent remarks about the New York grand jury investigation into former President Trump. McCarthy accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Saturday of using the investigation to pursue "political vengeance," saying...