The White House is preparing to end the COVID public health emergency, even as cases rise, the administration's coronavirus response coordinator said Tuesday. During the transition, the federal government will cease buying COVID vaccines, treatment and diagnostics as the virus becomes integrated into the normal healthcare market, like influenza is....
MAGA Media Looks To Turn White House Briefing Room Into a Battlefield
[aggregation-styles] Politico Eric Bolling, the conservative host of Sinclair Broadcast Group’s “America This Week,” would travel regularly to Donald Trump’s White House, interviewing the former president seven times and occasionally attending press briefings. Trump’s now gone and Bolling is facing a vastly different professional landscape. The current president is not...
From Valley Farms to the Capitol: Ramirez Is Key Part of Biden’s Team
Angela Ramirez's path to the Biden administration weaved through the Central Valley. It's where she learned the value of hard work. Although she was born and raised in the Sacramento area, Ramirez's parents are from the Central Valley and graduated from Fresno State — her father, Frank, is from Orosi...
Voice of America Reporter Reassigned for Pompeo Questions
NEW YORK — The White House reporter for Voice of America was abruptly pulled from her beat after trying to question Secretary of State Mike Pompeo following a speech he gave at the government agency this week. Pompeo's speech and the demotion of Patsy Widakuswara led to an angry phone...
White House Demands FDA Approve COVID Vaccine. Threatens FDA Chief’s Job.
WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Friday pressed Food and Drug Administration chief Stephen Hahn to grant an emergency use authorization for Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine by the end of the day or face possible firing, two administration officials said. The vaccine produced by Pfizer Inc. and...
White House Staff, Secret Service Eye Virus With Fear, Anger
WASHINGTON — The West Wing is a ghost town. Staff members are scared of exposure. And the White House is now a treatment ward for not one — but two — COVID patients, including a president who has long taken the threat of the virus lightly. President Donald Trump's decision...
Woman Accused of Sending Ricin Letter Arrested
WASHINGTON — A woman suspected of sending an envelope containing the poison ricin, which was addressed to White House, has been arrested at the New York-Canada border, three law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Sunday. The letter had been intercepted earlier this week before it reached the White...
Ex-Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Charged in Border Wall Scheme
NEW YORK — Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme “We Build The Wall.” The fundraiser was headed by men who pushed their close ties to President Donald Trump, giving their effort a...
AP News Alert: Trump Says ‘Shooting’ Outside White House ‘Under Control’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump returned to a White House briefing Monday evening and says the "shooting" outside White House now "under control."
Trump Says Virus in US Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sought to paint a rosier picture of the coronavirus for the nation Tuesday but conceded the pandemic is likely to get worse for a time as he revived his daily briefings with an eye to halting a campaign-season erosion of support as new cases spike...