NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s primetime return to CNN Wednesday for the first time since 2016 felt like a throwback: Trump with the long, twisting answers; the interviewer at times struggling to fact-check him or return his focus to the question at hand; and then, eventually, both talking over each other...
Israeli-Palestinian Fighting Intensifies as Egyptian Cease-Fire Efforts Falter
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, while Israel pressed ahead with a series of airstrikes that have killed 21 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at least 10 civilians. Egypt Attempts to Broker Cease-Fire A state-run Egyptian...
$42 Billion in Loan Forgiveness for Public Service Workers. Are You Eligible?
The U.S. has approved more than $42 billion in federal student loan debt forgiveness for more than 615,000 borrowers in the past 18 months as part of a program aimed at getting more people to work in public service jobs, the U.S. Department of Education said this week. The Public Service...
US Prices Stay High, Showing Inflation Pressures Persist
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer prices in the United States rose again in April, and measures of underlying inflation stayed high, a sign that further declines in inflation are likely to be slow and bumpy. Prices increased 0.4% from March to April, the government said Wednesday, up sharply from a 0.1% rise from February...
Army Sgt. Who Killed BLM Protester in Texas Sentenced to 25 Years
AUSTIN, Texas — A U.S. Army sergeant plans to appeal his 25-year prison sentence for fatally shooting an armed man during a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas, and will cooperate with efforts by the state's Republican governor to issue a pardon, his attorney said Wednesday. Daniel Perry, 36, was convicted...
Federal Bank Records Emerge as Focus of GOP’s Biden Probes
WASHINGTON — Facing growing pressure to show progress in their investigations, House Republicans on Wednesday detailed what they say are concerning new findings about President Joe Biden's family and their finances. The smoking gun, according to the GOP, is recently obtained financial records connected to the president's son Hunter Biden, brother James...
Simulation Suggests 2020 Census Missed Many Noncitizens
New results from a U.S. Census Bureau simulation suggests a significant number of noncitizens were missed in the 2020 census, a national head count during which the Trump administration tried but failed to prevent people in the country illegally from being tallied. Results of the Simulation A simulated head count...
McCarthy: No Movement on Debt Ceiling in Biden Meeting
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday after meeting with President Joe Biden and Democratic congressional leaders that he “didn’t see any new movement” toward ending a months-long impasse over raising the nation's borrowing limit. But he said they would reconvene Friday in hopes of averting a potential U.S....
Feinstein Returning to Senate After Facing Resignation Calls
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office disclosed Tuesday that she is returning to Washington following an absence of more than two months in which the oldest member of Congress faced calls from within her own party to resign. The 89-year-old California Democrat announced in early March that she had been hospitalized in...
Lachlan Murdoch Explains Settlement, Says No Change at Fox
NEW YORK — Fox News paid $787 million to settle a recent lawsuit on its reporting after the 2020 election to avoid a divisive trial and lengthy appeals process, its parent company's chief executive said on Tuesday. Lachlan Murdoch, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corp., also noted that a Delaware...