• Biden asks for nearly $100 billion in disaster aid, 'urgently needed' after Hurricanes Helene and Milton

    Biden asks for nearly $100 billion in disaster aid, 'urgently needed' after Hurricanes Helene and Milton

    Nov 18, 2024 11:04 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is requesting nearly $100 billion in emergency disaster aid after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and other natural disasters, telling lawmakers that the money is “urgently needed.” The letter Monday to House Speaker Mike Johnson comes as lawmakers meet during a lame-duck session to finish ...

  • Biden begins six-day trip to international summits in South America as world braces for Trump presidency

    Biden begins six-day trip to international summits in South America as world braces for Trump presidency

    Nov 14, 2024 04:17 PM EST

    ... a swan song for Biden," said Erin Murphy, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "Not only is he a lame duck, but a super lame duck because his successor is going to have very different policies." White House officials insist that Biden's visits ...

  • What Biden and Trump discussed during their White House meeting

    What Biden and Trump discussed during their White House meeting

    Nov 13, 2024 11:50 PM EST

    ... he came with a detailed list of questions. President Biden talked about the important items that he feels he still has to do in the lame-duck session of Congress, including funding the government, as well as some more additional disaster relief funds that he wants to see done. He ...

  • WATCH: House Republicans 'ready to deliver,' Johnson says as GOP readies for new Trump era

    WATCH: House Republicans 'ready to deliver,' Johnson says as GOP readies for new Trump era

    Nov 12, 2024 03:46 PM EST

    First tests will come during the "lame duck" period of the remaining days of this Congress, the eight-week sprint until Jan. 3, 2025, when the new lawmakers are sworn into office. As lawmakers return this week they will be joined by dozens of new names in the House and ...

  • AP Race Call: Donald Trump wins Wisconsin

    AP Race Call: Donald Trump wins Wisconsin

    Nov 06, 2024 01:56 PM EST

    The heavily Republican district includes cities such as Green Bay as well as rural areas. Lyerly’s campaign spokesperson, Kurt Frewing, said that Lyerly congratulated Wied but had no further comment. Wied promised in a statement to bring “some Wisconsin commonsense to Washington to lower everyday costs, secure the southern ...

  • Donald Trump elected 47th president of the United States

    Donald Trump elected 47th president of the United States

    Nov 06, 2024 12:14 PM EST

    ... that was increasingly skeptical – if not outright hostile – to institutions and established power structures. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who challenged Trump for the Republican nomination, lamented that the indictments “sucked out all the oxygen” from this year’s GOP primary. Trump easily captured his party’s nomination without ever participating ...

  • WATCH: Harris delivers remarks on American labor in Janesville, Wisconsin

    WATCH: Harris delivers remarks on American labor in Janesville, Wisconsin

    Nov 01, 2024 04:50 PM EST

    ... held at the state fair park in West Allis, will include the rapper Cardi B, who is slated only to speak, and performances by GloRilla, Flo Milli, MC Lyte, The Isley Brothers and DJ GEMINI GILLY. Associated Press writers Darlene Superville in Washington and Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix contributed.

  • Trump allies hope a win means changes to the mortgage system. Opponents warn it will cost consumers

    Trump allies hope a win means changes to the mortgage system. Opponents warn it will cost consumers

    Oct 25, 2024 03:15 PM EST

    ... system again, we need to fix Fannie and Freddie." Trump hasn't said whether he wants to revisit ending the conservatorship, but in 2021 he lamented to Republican Sen. Rand Paul that his privatization effort had failed. "My Administration was denied the time it needed to fix this problem," he ...

  • WATCH: Los Angeles prosecutors to give Menendez brothers chance at freedom with resentencing

    WATCH: Los Angeles prosecutors to give Menendez brothers chance at freedom with resentencing

    Oct 24, 2024 11:16 PM EST

    ... abusing her sons, she appears to have facilitated the abuse, according to her sons' legal filings. One cousin testified during the brothers' first trial that Lyle told her he was too scared to sleep in his room because his father would come in and touch his genitals. When the cousin ...

  • News Wrap: Prosecutors recommend resentencing for Menendez brothers

    News Wrap: Prosecutors recommend resentencing for Menendez brothers

    Oct 24, 2024 10:50 PM EST

    ... the Menendez brothers be resentenced for the 1989 killing of their parents. It's the first step in what could lead to their eventual release. Lyle and Erik Menendez admitted to fatally shooting their mother and father in the family's Beverly Hills mansion. After an initial mistrial, a second ...