By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson forcefully defended her record as a judge Tuesday, pushing back against Republican assertions
By AARON MORRISON Sen. Cory Booker cut through a tense third day of hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday with a
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — The new, splashy Broadway musical about Michael Jackson is going to moonwalk across America next year. “MJ,” packed with dozens of
By ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has provided more than $2 billion to help cover funeral costs for more than 300,000 families of people who died from
By LISA MASCARO and AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy summoned memories of Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terror attacks Wednesday in an impassioned
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia For several years Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has picked up the mantle to lead efforts to create a
Obama tests positive for COVID-19, says he’s ‘feeling fine’ The Associated Press Former President Barack Obama said on Sunday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, though he’s
By FARNOUSH AMIRI WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate unanimously approved a measure Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent across the United States next year. The bipartisan
By Lomi Kriel, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica “Russia’s arrest of Brittney Griner, WNBA basketball star from Houston, adds to escalating global conflict” was first published by The
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress gave final approval Monday to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S., sending the bill to President
