WASHINGTON — Through decades of political life before he entered the White House, Joe Biden rarely shied from leaning into his public persona as an affable everyman more comfortable in a Dairy Queen than the Situation Room. Now a buttoned-up president who often appears behind a lectern in a suit and tie, Biden is heeding…
MONTGOMERY — Alabama can begin immediately enforcing a ban outlawing the use of puberty blockers and hormones to treat transgender people under 19, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, granting the state’s request to stay a preliminary injunction that had blocked enforcement of the 2022 law. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had previously ruled…
Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley clash during the final Republican debate before the Iowa caucuses. Donald Trump is expected to be back in court for the closing arguments of his civil fraud trial. And past “quality issues” with the maker of the door plug that detached during an Alaska Airlines flight come to light. Here’s…
Three years into the Covid pandemic, hundreds of people are still dying of the disease every day. NBC News is tracking the latest Covid death totals with data from the National Center for Health Statistics. These graphics will be updated every Friday. Covid deaths have leveled out below 600 deaths a day since the omicron…
HONOLULU — In life, Abigail Kawānanakoa embodied the complexities of Hawaii: Many considered her a princess — a descendant of the royal family that once ruled the islands. But she was also the great-granddaughter of a sugar baron and inherited vast wealth thanks to Westerners who upended traditional ways of life through the introduction of…
DENVER — As incoming Mayor Mike Johnston was declaring a state of emergency on homelessness last year and launching an effort to significantly reduce the unsheltered population, an unprecedented number of people living on the streets were dying. At least 311 homeless people died in Denver last year, more than any other year, according to…
A Florida school district has pulled over 1,600 books from its library shelves for review — including Webster’s Dictionary for Students — to ensure they comply with the state’s new sex education law that prohibits books describing sexual content. The Escambia County Public School District, in the Florida Panhandle, pulled five dictionaries, eight encyclopedias and “The…
