Teacher appreciation? Try better pay, more governors say
As schools across the country struggle to find teachers to hire, more governors are pushing for pay increases and bonuses for the beleaguered profession.
Why so many mass killings? Families, experts seek answers
More than 100 people have been killed in mass killings thus far in 2023, an average of one a week.
‘My career of 280 years’: Biden jokes off 2024 age concerns
As Joe Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, embarks on his reelection campaign, he is increasingly musing aloud about his advanced age, cracking self-deprecating jokes and framing his decades in public life as a plus.
Trump rejects last chance to testify at New York civil trial
Former President Donald Trump has rejected his last chance to testify at a civil trial where a longtime advice columnist has accused him of raping her in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996.
SUV driver hits crowd at Texas bus stop near border; 7 dead
Police in Brownsville, Texas, say seven people are dead and at least 10 are injured after a driver struck a group of people waiting at a bus stop outside a migrant shelter.
Black voters backing Biden, but not with 2020 enthusiasm
Black voters in South Carolina rescued Joe Biden’s bid for the presidency during the 2020 Democratic primary, and he rewarded them by moving the state to the head of the party’s nominating calendars in 2024.
Across town from show dogs, a labor to save suffering ones
The Westminster Kennel Club is set to crown the cream of the canine elite on one of tennis’ most storied courts next week.
To improve kids’ mental health, some schools start later
The idea of later school start times, pushed by many over the years as a way to help adolescents get more sleep, is getting a new look as a way to address the mental health crisis affecting teens across the U.S. Nationally, at least nine states are considering legislation related to school start times, up from four the previous year, according to the National Conference on State Legislatures.
For far-right activist, lawsuit becomes one-sided standoff
A far-right activist best known for his showdowns with federal law enforcement in Oregon and Nevada is now waging a one-sided standoff of a different kind in Idaho.
WATCH: Excerpts from Trump’s deposition in rape lawsuit
The video deposition of Donald Trump played before a Manhattan jury in the E. Jean Carroll civil battery and defamation trial was made public Friday. Excerpts show Trump mistaking Carroll for his second wife, Marla, in a photograph, and being questioned on the infamous “Access Hollywood” bus video.