US surgeon general declares gun violence a public health emergency
The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country.
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Immigrant families rejoice over Biden’s expansive move toward citizenship, while some are left out
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe Biden unveiled a highly expansive plan to extend legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens but, inevitably, some were left out.
Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under a new plan from Biden
The White House announced Tuesday that the Biden administration will, in the coming months, allow certain spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status to apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship.
Biden’s Title IX law expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students is dealt another setback
The Biden administration’s effort to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students hit another roadblock Monday, when a federal judge in Kentucky temporarily blocked the new Title IX rule in six additional states.
AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns
Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword for candidates running campaigns. Inexpensive, user-friendly AI models can help them save money and time on some of their day-to-day tasks. But they often don’t have the staff or expertise to combat AI-generated falsehoods.
President Biden says he won’t offer commutation to his son Hunter after gun sentence
President Joe Biden said Thursday that he will not use his presidential powers to lessen the eventual sentence that his son Hunter will receive for his federal felony conviction on gun crimes.
President Joe Biden faces first lawsuit over new asylum crackdown at the border
The lawsuit — filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and others on behalf of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, or RAICES — is the first test of the legality of Biden’s sweeping crackdown on the border.
Biden campaign calls on GOP to drop lawsuits over mail ballots, citing Trump’s new fondness for it
Trump for years falsely claimed voting by mail was riddled with fraud, but his 2024 campaign began a program this month to encourage mail voting if convenient for people. It is part of Republicans’ attempt to increase mail voting among their supporters.
White House isn’t ruling out a potential commutation for Hunter Biden after his conviction
President Joe Biden definitively ruled out pardoning his son during an ABC News interview last week.
Hunter Biden convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial
The son of President Joe Biden was found guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days.
UPDATE: Jurors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial begin deliberating
It’s the first of two trials Hunter Biden faces in the midst of his Democratic father’s reelection campaign. The younger Biden is also charged with failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes in a case scheduled to go to trial in September.
Back from France, the first lady attends Hunter Biden’s gun trial as prosecution wraps up
Federal prosecutors aimed to wrap up their gun case against Hunter Biden on Friday with two final witnesses in their effort to prove that the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun purchase form when he said he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
Migrants are rattled and unsure as deportations begin under new rule halting asylum
Abigail Castillo was about to cross the U.S. border illegally when she heard President Joe Biden was halting asylum. She continued anyway, walking hours through the mountains east of San Diego with her toddler son, hoping it wasn’t too late.
Jurors in Hunter Biden trial hear more from the clerk who sold him the gun at the center of the case
Jurors in Hunter Biden’s criminal trial on Thursday are hearing more from the former gun store clerk who sold him the .38-caliber Colt revolver at the center of the case.
Hunter Biden’s exes are called as witnesses in his federal gun trial
Prosecutors are seeking to show the depths of Hunter Biden’s drug problem, which they say was still going on when he filled out a form to buy a firearm.
Indiana joins 14 states in lawsuit challenging federal protections for transgender care
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office said covered entities that fail to follow the new rule risk the loss of significant federal funding — including the loss of Medicaid funding designed to assist low-income individuals.
Biden rolls out asylum restrictions, months in the making, to help ‘gain control’ of the border
The long-anticipated presidential proclamation would bar migrants from being granted asylum when U.S. officials deem that the southern border is overwhelmed.
Hunter Biden’s federal firearms case opens after jury is chosen, with first lady again sitting in
Lawyers will make their opening statements Tuesday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter after a jury was seated for the trial.
Biden prepares an order that would shut down asylum if a daily average of 2,500 migrants arrive
The White House is telling lawmakers that President Joe Biden is preparing to sign off on an executive order that would shut down asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border once the average number of daily encounters hits 2,500 between ports of entry, with the border reopening only once that number declines to 1,500, according to several people familiar with the discussions.
Justice Department’s ‘deepfake’ concerns over Biden interview audio highlights AI misuse worries
Releasing an audio recording of a special counsel’s interview with President Joe Biden could spur deepfakes and disinformation that trick Americans, the Justice Department said, conceding the U.S. government could not stop the misuse of artificial intelligence ahead of this year’s election.