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President Joe Biden addresses the country one day after Donald Trump was convicted in a New York state court. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump conviction shows ‘no one is above the law,’ Biden says

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 31, 2024 at 3:04pm
Former President Donald Trump departs a courtroom after being found guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial in New York on Thursday, flanked by attorney Todd Blanche. (Justin Lane-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump set to be sentenced just days before Republican convention

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 30, 2024 at 7:10pm
Israeli tanks, armored personnel carriers, trucks and other vehicles drive near the city of Rafah, Gaza, on Wednesday.

‘Major ground operation’: If Biden has a Gaza ‘red line,’ Israel likely has leeway left

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 30, 2024 at 3:14pm
The 76ers' Sixers Stixers drum line performs before a campaign rally for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at Girard College on Wednesday in Philadelphia.

Latest Biden, Harris pitch to Black voters slams Trump in crucial battleground

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 29, 2024 at 4:19pm
Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, addresses the Libertarian National Convention in Washington on Saturday.

Trump griped about trial but did not use holiday to hit multiple swing states

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 28, 2024 at 1:34pm
From left: Kenyan first lady Rachel Ruto, Kenyan President William Ruto, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk back into the White House after an arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday.

Biden welcomes Kenya’s Ruto with talk of business deals and 1,000 candles

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 23, 2024 at 4:05pm
President Joe Biden speaks at the Morehouse College Commencement on Sunday in Atlanta. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Spared angry protests at Morehouse, Biden pushes post-war Gaza plan

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 20, 2024 at 3:34pm
A Rivian electric vehicle charges outside of Blink Charging’s new flagship manufacturing facility in Bowie, Md., in March.

Election year politics roil the EV transition

By Mike Magner and Valerie Yurk
Posted May 20, 2024 at 12:09pm
President Joe Biden speaks at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington on Friday.

Biden kicks off outreach to Black voters as protest threat looms at Morehouse

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 17, 2024 at 2:22pm
President Joe Biden speaks at Gateway Technical College’s iMet Center on May 8 in Sturtevant, Wis.

Editor’s Note: Stock market no panacea for Biden, Democrats

By Peter Cohn
Posted May 17, 2024 at 1:39pm
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, leads a markup Thursday on whether to recommend holding Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in contempt of Congress.

White House move doesn’t deter House panels on Garland contempt

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 16, 2024 at 2:13pm, Updated at 11:21pm
National security adviser Jake Sullivan at a White House briefing last year. On Monday, he laid out President Joe Biden's view of the Israel-Hamas war.

Arab leaders’ Gaza demands give Biden another election-year headache

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 16, 2024 at 4:13pm
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul is among Republicans who have accused Biden of withholding information on arms transfers to Israel.

As House readies a vote on Israeli arms, Democrats whip members in opposition

By Rachel Oswald
Posted May 15, 2024 at 4:35pm
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about reproductive freedoms at Salus University in Elkins Park, Pa., on May 8.

‘The right person’: Harris takes lead in campaign over abortion access

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 15, 2024 at 11:42am
Lael Brainard, director of the National Economic Council, said China is flooding the global marketplace with underpriced products.

Citing unfair trade, Biden hikes tariffs on Chinese EVs, batteries

By David Jordan
Posted May 14, 2024 at 6:35am
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland waits to testify during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing last month.

House GOP details case for contempt of Congress against Garland

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 13, 2024 at 6:11pm
Palestinians who fled Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip transport their belongings in the back of a truck as they arrive to take shelter in Khan Yunis on Sunday.

Israel report further clouds Biden’s approach to Gaza conflict

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 13, 2024 at 11:30am
President Joe Biden salutes as he steps off of Marine One before departing Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Wednesday.

Takeaways from Biden’s candid CNN interview as he warns Israel

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 9, 2024 at 1:08pm
President Joe Biden speaks at Gateway Technical College in Racine County, Wis., on Wednesday.

Biden visits Wisconsin as Gaza, Trump dominate public attention

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 8, 2024 at 2:32pm
President Joe Biden speaks during the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual Days of Remembrance ceremony in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday.

‘It must stop’: Biden denounces antisemitism on college campuses

By Justin Papp
Posted May 7, 2024 at 3:45pm
Former President Donald Trump talks with race winner Lando Norris at the Formula One Grand Prix of Miami on Sunday. President Joe Biden’s campaign says Florida is in play.

Trump, Biden eye new swing states but analysts have doubts

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 6, 2024 at 2:35pm
President Joe Biden pins a Presidential Medal of Freedom around the neck of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Friday at the White House.

‘Extraordinary honor’: Biden gives Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pelosi, Clyburn, Kerry and others

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 3, 2024 at 6:09pm
Police clash with protesters after an order to disperse was given at UCLA Thursday morning.

Trump lurches into vacuum created by Biden’s days of silence on campus protests

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 3, 2024 at 9:58am
President Joe Biden arrives at the Wilmington Convention Center in North Carolina to speak about clean water projects on Thursday.

Biden visits key city in swing state as Trump rails against him at courthouse

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 2, 2024 at 6:25pm
President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrive for a joint press conference at the White House on April 10.

Biden calls allies India, Japan ‘xenophobic’ at fundraiser with Asian American donors

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 2, 2024 at 10:34am, Updated at 1:40pm
People march in Tehran with Palestinian and Iranian flags and banners to celebrate Iran's April 13 attack on Israel and protest Israel, which Iran accused of carrying out an attack on its soil six days later.

White House went from braggadocious to silent on Middle East intel — in four days

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 29, 2024 at 1:24pm
House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, and Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, talk before a March 21 House Budget Committee hearing on the president's budget request.

House GOP wants answers from OMB about rulemaking costs

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 29, 2024 at 11:35am
The Biden administration on Friday formally dropped a proposal to ban menthol cigarettes amid concerns about a tight campaign between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, as well as concerns about increased policing of the Black community.

White House drops plan to ban menthol cigarettes

By Lauren Clason
Posted April 26, 2024 at 3:17pm
President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 29, 2023.

What to watch during what could be Biden’s final White House correspondents’ dinner

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 26, 2024 at 5:00am
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer says Micron’s New York plant will revive manufacturing in an area that has faced an economic downturn.

Micron gets combined $13.6 billion grant, loan for chip plants

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted April 25, 2024 at 5:01am