Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will announce a new goal on greenhouse gas emissions Thursday — calling on the U.S., by 2030, to slash emissions by 50-52% from record-high 2005 emission levels. Biden is set to make Read More
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy said the United States needs to be humble going into this week’s Earth Day summit after four years away from global climate negotiations while President Donald Trump was in Read More
Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Critics of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy hoped Thursday’s confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden’s three nominees to the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board would mark the beginning of the Read More
ABC News Photo Illustration, Simon & Schuster and St. Martin’s Press (NEW YORK) — Hillary Clinton is taking on the thriller genre for her next book. This fall, Clinton and her long-time friend, Canadian mystery novelist Louise Penny, will publish their book, Read More
RiverNorthPhotography/iStock (DES MOINES, Iowa) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has urged residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as more than 40% of the state’s counties are seeing a decrease in demand for doses. Out of Iowa’s 99 counties, 43 have Read More
Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Key lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said they see an opportunity to reform policing practices in the wake of Derek Chauvin’s conviction in Minneapolis. While breaking through the logjam remains a Read More
uschools/iStock (WASHINGTON) — A bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers proposed a new bill Wednesday that would ban federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies from buying user data collected from smartphones, social media and other digital sources from Read More
Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Journalist Susan Page, author of a new biography about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said the speaker is a “master of the inside game of politics” in a Wednesday interview with ABC’s Read More
YinYang/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is launching a “pattern or practice” investigation into the Minneapolis police department. “Today, I am announcing that the Justice Read More
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will announce Wednesday afternoon that his goal of administering 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine during his first 100 days will be reached by Thursday, Day 93 since he took Read More
