The White House on Monday threatened to veto a House Republican bill that would bar transgender women and girls nationwide from competing in female sports.

First lady Jill Biden and Yuko Kishida, the Japanese prime minister's wife, were planting a cherry tree on the White House grounds on Monday to honor decades of friendship between their countries.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country into law last week. The Heartbeat Protection Act will prohibit abortions after six weeks, but allow for exceptions in cases of rape, incest, human trafficking, and when a mother’s life is at risk.

President Joe Biden has had a complicated history with gas prices during his term. After the country enjoyed relatively low fuel prices during the Trump administration, prices skyrocketed to record highs in 2022. Biden, who campaigned on accepting responsibility and not passing blame on others, subsequently attributed the hike to Trump, Putin, the war in Ukraine, and seemingly anyone and everything but himself. Then, when prices started to drop, Biden regularly took credit. Now, as gas prices have started to go back up again, Biden is conspicuously quiet on the issue.

If Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is to have any chance of defeating former President Donald Trump in next year's Republican primaries, he is going to have to establish that he can beat President Joe Biden and Trump cannot.

Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain has rejoined global law firm O’Melveny as a partner after leaving the Biden administration, the firm announced Monday.  Klain, who was sought after by law and lobbying firms for his close relationship with President Biden, previously was a partner at O’Melveny from 1999 to 2004. This time...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Monday that the state might consider building a prison or potentially another amusement park next to land owned by Disney amid his administration's ongoing feud with the entertainment giant. The governor’s clash with Disney started when the company came out against his education plan that limits the instruction of...

Your Big Mac taste a little different lately? McDonald's said it's been tweaking the way they make their signatures burgers in about a dozen large cities, and plans to roll out the changes nationwide.

The fast-approaching summer offers a precious opportunity for parents of students suffering severe learning loss from the coronavirus pandemic. Schools and policymakers have been scrambling since the 2022 Nation’s Report Card last fall showed that students lost decades of progress in reading and math when they missed out on in-person classes. Now, students are set...

Federal authorities in New York made two arrests Monday in connection with the establishment of a Chinese-government run police station in Manhattan where officials allegedly monitored pro-democracy activists. The clandestine station, run by China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS), was announced alongside a complaint charging 34 individuals accused of working at a “troll farm” run...