When Shawn Fain took over the United Auto Workers union in April, he vowed to reverse the group's waning influence by transforming it into a political powerhouse. In less than six months, he's fulfilled that pledge by organizing a historic strike and holding hostage his endorsement of President Biden.

Former U.S. Sen. Dick Clark, a Democrat who unexpectedly won a single term representing Iowa in the 1970s after campaigning by walking around the state, and who later played a key role in aiding refugees after the Vietnam War, has died. He was 95.

The White House said Thursday it supports a law enforcement investigation into the murder of a Sikh separatist in Canada but declined to wade into thorny diplomatic matters around the killing that involves India, a key ally in Asia.