• How Utah's new ban on gender-affirming care for minors is affecting trans teens in the state

    How Utah's new ban on gender-affirming care for minors is affecting trans teens in the state

    Feb 03, 2023 10:25 PM EDT

    “If one trans child takes their life because of this bill, the blood is on your hands Governor,” McPeck-Stringham tweeted. “I don’t think it’s just the governor,” she added later in an interview with The 19th. “I think it’s the [lawmakers] who voted. They’re ...

  • WATCH: Biden downplays troubling economic report, focuses on measures to tame inflation

    WATCH: Biden downplays troubling economic report, focuses on measures to tame inflation

    Jul 28, 2022 11:49 PM EDT

    ... will reward Biden and Democrats for being seen as proposing solutions to the challenges affecting households' bottom lines. Biden told The Associated Press in an interview earlier this year that he sees his mission as giving Americans a renewed sense of confidence, yet the faith he seeks to keep and ...

  • WATCH: Family, friends gather to honor trailblazer Colin Powell

    WATCH: Family, friends gather to honor trailblazer Colin Powell

    Nov 05, 2021 06:18 PM EDT

    ... They included former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, former secretary of states James Baker, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Army Gen. Mark Milley, as well as other service chiefs. WATCH: Colin Powell’s funeral at ...

  • Ford to build three electric-vehicle battery factories and an auto assembly plant

    Ford to build three electric-vehicle battery factories and an auto assembly plant

    Sep 28, 2021 01:41 PM EDT

    The Tennessee Valley Authority, which serves the Memphis-area site, sells industrial electricity at a price that's lower than 93 percent of competitors nationwide, said CEO Jeff Lyash. Rates have stayed flat for the past decade and are planned to stay flat for the next 10 years, he said ...

  • WATCH: Biden announces huge infrastructure plan to 'win the future'

    WATCH: Biden announces huge infrastructure plan to 'win the future'

    Mar 31, 2021 02:33 PM EDT

    Biden appealed for Republicans and the business community to join him in negotiations on the bill, but the legislative prospects for Biden's twin proposals already appear to hinge on Democrats coming up with the votes on their own through the budget reconciliation process, which requires just a simple majority ...

  • News Wrap: Biden says Cuomo should resign, supports changing Senate filibuster rule

    News Wrap: Biden says Cuomo should resign, supports changing Senate filibuster rule

    Mar 17, 2021 10:50 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Wednesday, President Joe Biden said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should resign after facing a string of sexual misconduct allegations. Biden for the first time also expressed support to change the Senate filibuster rule. Also, the Federal Reserve said it will keep key interest rates near ...

  • How election officials and USPS handle mail-in ballots

    How election officials and USPS handle mail-in ballots

    Aug 13, 2020 10:35 PM EDT

    ... this morning, that vote by mail is riddled with fraud. Congressional Democrats have sought to include billions of dollars of funding in the next aid bill in order to support the U.S. Postal Service and to expand mail-in voting. But in an interview today with FOX Business Network ...

  • Trump opposes USPS funding, says mail voting hard without it

    Trump opposes USPS funding, says mail voting hard without it

    Aug 13, 2020 05:20 PM EDT

    ... wants to deprive Americans of their fundamental right to vote safely during the most catastrophic public health crisis in over 100 years," Biden spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. Negotiations over a new virus relief package have all but ended, with the White House and congressional leaders far apart ...

  • Pelosi creating House committee to oversee economic bailout

    Pelosi creating House committee to oversee economic bailout

    Apr 02, 2020 05:08 PM EDT

    ... that won't be until late April, at the earliest. “If we find ourselves where the economy needs a stimulus, to me a highway infrastructure bill would be a key component of that,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., chairman of his chamber's Energy and Public Works Committee, said in ...

  • WATCH: Georgia's Republican Gov. Kemp signs 6-week abortion ban

    WATCH: Georgia's Republican Gov. Kemp signs 6-week abortion ban

    May 07, 2019 01:56 PM EDT

    ... for fetuses, declaring that "the full value of a child begins at the point when a detectable human heartbeat exists." Republican Rep. Ed Setzler, the bill's author, said in an interview after the bill passed the state House that it's a "common sense" measure that seeks to "balance ...