Politics

Biden fires holdover head of Social Security Administration

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press

The White House says President Joe Biden has fired the Social Security commissioner after the official refused to resign. Biden has also accepted the resignation of the agency's deputy commissioner.

As frustration mounts, a White House push on voting rights

By Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller, Ashraf Khalil, Associated Press

The White House says Biden will travel to Philadelphia on Tuesday to discuss "actions to protect the sacred, constitutional right to vote." Biden met with civil rights leaders in the West Wing on Thursday.

Why can't Olympians smoke weed?

By Chloe Jones

Her chances dashed at an Olympic debut, fellow elite athletes have come to Sha'Carri Richardson's defense and to say that sporting rules on pot are overdue for a change.

2 Trump EPA appointees defrauded agency of $130K, watchdog finds

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The report by EPA's Office of Inspector General says former EPA chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz submitted "official timesheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements."…

Police testimony will lead off panel's first Capitol insurrection hearing

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Padmananda Rama, Associated Press

Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the new select panel, says the committee hopes to "set the tone" of the investigation by hearing from those first responders, many of whom were brutally beaten and verbally assaulted by former President…

U.S. stops jailing pregnant migrants, reversing Trump policy

By Ben Fox, Associated Press

The new directive doesn't bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement from initiating proceedings to deport migrants without legal status. But it would not longer jail them if they are pregnant, nursing or have given birth within the past year while they…

FDA head calls for probe into Alzheimer's drug review

By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press

Dr. Janet Woodcock announced the extraordinary step via Twitter. It's the latest fallout over last month's approval of Aduhelm, an expensive and unproven therapy that the agency OK'd against the advice of its own outside experts.

WATCH: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki gives briefing

By Laura Santhanam and Associated Press

The briefing is scheduled to happen amid announcements from the Biden administration on boosting the economy, ending detention for most pregnant and postpartum immigrants who are undocumented and developments in COVID-19 vaccines.

WATCH: Biden signs competition order targeting big business

By Aamer Madhani, Marcy Gordon, Associated Press

The order includes calls for banning or limiting noncompete agreements to help boost wages and for allowing rule changes that would pave the way for hearing aids to be sold over the counter at drugstores, among other things.

Avenatti sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for extortion

By Jim Mustian, Larry Neumeister, Associated Press

A New York judge has sentenced the combative California lawyer Michael Avenatti to 2 1/2 years in prison for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike.