Politics

By TERRY SPENCER, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday downplayed a spike in COVID-19 cases that’s shattered state hospitalization records and strongly reiterated...

By JOSH BOAK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will announce a new 60-day eviction moratorium that would protect areas where 90% of the U.S. population lives, according to three people...

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday it’s “unfathomable” that Americans will be ousted from their homes during the COVID-19 crisis, and backed by the Congressional Black Caucus...

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After much delay, senators unveiled a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, wrapping up days of painstaking work on the inches-thick bill and launching what is...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday that efforts to address root causes of migrationfrom three Central American countries won’t produce immediate results as she unveiled a broad strategy that expands on principles the Biden administration...

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Biden administration will allow a nationwide ban on evictions to expire Saturday, arguing that its hands are tied after the Supreme Court ruled it could only be...

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to begin work on a nearly $1 trillion national infrastructure plan, acting with sudden speed after weeks of fits and...

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press It had only been hinted at in previous public examinations of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection: Scores of rioters attacked police officers not just with makeshift weapons, stun guns and fists,...

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Fred Ware and his son were researching the history of the home he’s owned in the Hartford suburbs since 1950 when they discovered something far uglier than...

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press KANE, Pa. (AP) — A crank caller ordered an “insurrection pizza” from Pauline Bauer’s restaurant. A profane piece of hate mail addressed her as a domestic terrorist. She even became a...