Former President Donald Trump committed three key “deadly sins” during the coronavirus pandemic, a former top White House adviser said on Sunday.

Denying the COVID-19 threat, stifling dissent and encouraging divisiveness among Americans all were missteps by the nation’s 45th commander-in-chief, said Andy Slavitt, who served on the White ...Read more

Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori claimed that the June 6 election where she narrowly trails was plagued with irregularities, and accused President Francisco Sagasti of interference.

“This is an attempt by the international left to bend popular will,” Fujimori said at a news conference on Saturday, adding that leftist leaders ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — President Joe Biden said Saturday he would sign legislation making the Pulse nightclub site a national memorial, but added that more needs to be done to prevent gun violence in America on the fifth anniversary of one of the worst mass shootings in American history.

The memorial destination, Biden said, is ”enshrining in law ...Read more

LIMA, Peru — Tensions were rising on the streets of the Peruvian capital Friday as supporters of the presidential candidates began to lose patience as the vote count entered a fifth day, with official results showing leftist Pedro Castillo retaining a slim lead over Keiko Fujimori.

Supporters of Castillo began to gather in downtown Lima after...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Republicans are weighing whether to push for the elimination of a safe Democratic congressional district in Kansas City later this year during the state’s once-every-decade redistricting process.

Such a change in the state’s congressional map, leaving U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., without a safe district...Read more

Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and other U.S. technology giants would have to sell or exit key businesses under sweeping antitrust legislation proposed by House lawmakers.

The proposal is among a series of bills introduced Friday by House Democrats and Republicans that would place significant new constraints on how tech platforms run their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden’s administration will return to the U.S. military more than $2 billion that had been allocated for Donald Trump’s border wall, the president’s latest move to roll back one of his predecessor’s signature immigration priorities.

The decision will make the unspent funds available to 66 previously deferred projects ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Stephen Bilenky wasn't sure what to think when he got an email from the U.S. State Department on May 23 asking whether he could make a bike — in less than two weeks.

That was a big request for Bilenky Cycle Works in Philadelphia's Olney section, a small business whose customers may have to wait at least six months for a ...Read more

The For the People Act, a bill that proponents say will combat voter suppression and that opponents criticize as divisive overreach, may have been dealt a death blow earlier this week by one Senate Democrat's announced refusal to support it. But such celebrities as Leonardo DiCaprio, Sarah Silverman, Kerry Washington, John Legend, Billy Eichner,...Read more

WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders are asking Congress to expand the kinds of unclassified information about military operations that the department can withhold from the public, continuing what has been an annual tradition for seven years and spanning three administrations.

Officials with the Pentagon general counsel’s office are requesting ...Read more

Student loan borrowers hoping that President Joe Biden would forgive any significant portion of their debt are likely gnashing their teeth. The White House has left loan forgiveness out of its upcoming budget proposal, as the administration focuses on passing legislation it already has introduced.

Some advocates and Democratic lawmakers are ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar said Thursday that she "was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems," after her tweet earlier this week spurred harsh criticism from Republicans and prominent Jewish Democrats.

Hours before, the Minnesota Democrat publicly clashed with some ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House has reached an impasse with Sen. Joe Manchin, the centrist Democrat from conservative West Virginia who this week reiterated his opposition to key elements of the president’s legislative agenda.

It’s left President Joe Biden with a decision to make.

In coming months, the leader of the Democratic Party must ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ilhan Omar has once again stirred controversy among her Democratic colleagues over her characterization of Israel and the United States. Tensions rose within the Democratic ranks as a tweet from Omar prompted a letter of response from a group of Jewish colleagues in the House and a denunciation from Omar.

Earlier this week, ...Read more

After three years of marriage, my writer husband, Julius Lester, and I had worked out a good arrangement: He wrote in our grimy New York apartment, taught a few guitar students and cared for baby Rosa while I attended City College graduate school. My fellowship funded it all.

But late one January night he stood in our kitchen, stirring diapers ...Read more