Here's what to know: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen clarified that she is not concerned about the risks of economic overheating hours after her earlier comments about inflation caused a brief panic on Wall Street and invited fresh scrutiny about the White House's position. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
Facebook's decision to outsource the future of Trump's account to an independent Oversight Board stems from a tortured relationship with the former president. It could also set a precedent on how social media companies handle politicians and on how they will balance free speech and harm.
An emerging target is a difficult one to hit. When something like the coronavirus comes on the scene, there's plenty of (hopefully informed) guesswork involved. We saw that repeatedly in the early days of the pandemic, with some health officials downplaying the threat, warning people against using masks and generally giving advice that, even within a few months, became rather dated.
The official calculation of what constitutes "normal" U.S. climate has been updated - and to virtually nobody's surprise, it's a warmer picture than ever before. On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an updated set of climate averages for the contiguous United States based on the 30-year period from 1991 to 2020, including more than 9,000 daily reporting stations.
Incorrect information from government sources apparently led three separate news organizations to publish the same erroneous claim about Rudolph W. Giuliani last week that all three later corrected.
Cicada sightings are starting to slowly increase, but the swarm still awaits. In recent days, we have received several reports of the insects slowly creeping out of their holes, but it is still a trickle rather than an explosion. The anticipated outburst may hold off for another week or so.
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a Tuesday deadline to form a new government amid signs that he has no path to a parliamentary majority, which would prolong the country's unprecedented political stalemate and threaten to end the record run of Israel's longest-serving leader.
On first glance, the photograph seems typical enough. President Biden and first lady Jill Biden kneel beside their predecessors in the White House, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, during a trip to Georgia last week.
I have a confession: I used to judge parents all of the time. As a pediatrician in training, before I had my own daughter, it was easy to silently criticize. Usually my judgment was mild, silent and fleeting, breezing through my mind as parents confessed the small ways in which they had been unable to follow whatever pediatric rule I was reviewing.
Weeks before Election Day, Bruce Bartman mailed his mother's absentee ballot with a check mark next to President Donald Trump's name. The problem was, his mother had been dead since 2008. Bartman, 70, pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of felony perjury and unlawful voting - and blamed his decision to cast the fraudulent ballot on consuming too many false claims about the election.
After the final pick of the NFL draft had been made, North Carolina Central Coach Trei Oliver spoke with cornerback Bryan Mills. A long-limbed and explosive athlete, Mills had expected to be taken in the late rounds. Every team passed on him, though, and he settled on signing with the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent.
A U.S. bankruptcy administrator asked a federal judge Monday to dismiss the National Rifle Association's efforts to declare bankruptcy or appoint a trustee or examiner to oversee the gun rights organization - a setback for the group at the close of a federal court hearing to consider its petition.
President Biden on Monday lifted the annual limit on the number of refugees who can be admitted into the United States through September to 62,500 but said admissions would fall short of that mark - capping months of wavering and reversals from his administration and fierce blowback from human rights advocates and fellow Democrats.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in remarks aired Tuesday that the economy could be at risk of overheating if the Biden administration's spending proposals are approved. She raised the prospect of future interest rate increases, which appeared to cause a sell-off in the stock market.
Here's what to know: A small number of immigrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration will be reunited this week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. Biden on Monday announced that he will raise the cap on refugees who can be admitted into the United States from 15,000 to 62,500 after blowback from immigrant rights groups and Democrats for extending Trump-era levels.
A crowd of picnickers was sitting on folding chairs on a grass median in Chicago on Saturday, sipping drinks and trading snacks, when a man in a pickup truck stopped to yell that their dogs were misbehaving. The crowd asked the man to leave, witnesses told the Chicago Tribune.
The deadly collapse of a subway overpass in Mexico's capital plunged the country into grief and political recriminations on Tuesday, putting top officials on the defensive as they faced questions about shoddy work and poor maintenance in one of the world's busiest subway systems. Twenty-four people were killed when a concrete slab bearing metro track through Mexico City gave way in a terrifying roar on Monday night, sending two train cars plummeting toward a highway below.
Manchester City has been hoisting domestic trophies for a decade now, but its ambitions have always reached well beyond English borders. To truly take their place on European soccer's top shelf, the Blues have sharpened their focus on not only sustaining excellence at home but winning the UEFA Champions League.
At least one FBI agent shot and wounded a person outside CIA headquarters in McLean, Va., on Monday evening, the bureau said in a statement, asserting that the individual exited his vehicle with a weapon. The FBI released few details about the encounter and the person who was shot.
Republican operatives worth their salt remember well the Sunshine State's 1988 U.S. Senate race. Floridians went to sleep that Nov. 8 believing that Democrat Buddy MacKay had prevailed with a slim lead of less than one percentage point. The television networks had called the race for him. The St.