The number of births in the United States fell by in from the previous year, driven in part by a marked birth rate decline among older teenagers and women aged , according to a report from the CDC released on Thursday.The number of births in the U.S. fell to, , in from ...

   Columbia University students heckled House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday as he visited the flashpoint of nationwide student demonstrations over the Israeli war in Gaza, even as the New York school agreed to more hours of negotiations to end a protest encampment.Johnson’s visit, which he said...

   Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, is among people charged in Arizona with illegally seeking to claim the state’s electoral votes for the then U.S. president, in an indictment that names Trump as an unindicted co conspirator.The indictment, reached on Tuesday and unsealed on...

   Germany is waging a charm offensive inside the Republican Party. Japan is lining up its own Trump whisperer. Mexican government officials are talking to Camp Trump. And Australia is busy making laws to help Trump proof its U.S. defense ties.Everywhere, U.S. allies are taking steps to defend or...

   Lawmakers in Arizona’s House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to repeal an ban on abortion that could still go into effect within weeks if not also knocked down by the Senate.House lawmakers voted to repeal the law, which provides no exceptions for abortions even in cases of rape or...

   U.S. Justice Department officials plan to decide as soon as late May whether Boeing BA.N violated an agreement that shielded the planemaker from criminal prosecution over fatal crashes in and , people familiar with the matter said.Government officials revealed the timeline during five...

   Some U.S. students at Washington, D.C.’s Jackson Reed High School filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging the public high school’s administrators censored them by prohibiting pro Palestinian events.The lawsuit said administrators treated the Arab Student Union, a student club at the high school,...

   U.S. Supreme Court justices, wading back into the battle over abortion access, appeared divided on Wednesday in a case pitting Idaho’s strict Republican backed abortion ban against a federal law that ensures that patients can receive emergency care.The justices heard arguments in an appeal by Idaho...

   The U.S. government will require dairy cattle moving between states to be tested for bird flu starting on Monday as federal officials ramp up their response to an outbreak that has bled over into the U.S. milk supply.Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Wednesday said all laboratories and state...

   Ford Motor Co F.N posted first quarter earnings on Wednesday that beat Wall Street’s expectations, bolstered by a strong performance in its commercial vehicle division and an increase in its hybrid vehicle sales.The company said it expects to achieve the higher end of its projected annual...

   Gathered around a banner emblazoned with the words stop arming Israel, thousands of protesters joined with Jewish led peace groups in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday evening to attend a Passover protest that recalls the Freedom Seder held in the tumultuous year of .Organizers said they drew...

   A U.S. appeals court revived a lawsuit accusing Whole Foods of illegally firing a worker who refused to remove her Black Lives Matter facemask and complained about racism at the upscale grocery chain.In a decision released on Wednesday, the st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the firing of...

   McKinsey Co is under criminal investigation in the United States over allegations that the consulting firm played a key role in fueling the opioid epidemic, with federal prosecutors homing in on its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and other drugmakers, three people familiar with the...

   TikTok’s chief executive said on Wednesday the social media company expects to win a legal challenge to block legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden that he said would ban its popular short video app used by million Americans. Rest assured we aren’t going anywhere, CEO Shou Zi...

   The U.S. Air Force USAF said on Wednesday that it narrowed down its list to choose General Atomics and Anduril, which will be funded for detailed designs, manufacture, and testing of production representative test vehicles for the future fleet of autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft CCA .The...

   Families of the victims of two fatal Boeing MAX crashes in and will press U.S. Justice Department officials Wednesday to criminally prosecute the planemaker after a January in flight blowout exposed continuing safety and quality issues.Relatives and their lawyers are expected to argue...

   Donald Payne Jr., a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives who represented a northern New Jersey district, has died after a cardiac episode, the state’s governor’s office said on Wednesday. As a former union worker and toll collector, he deeply understood the struggles our working families...

   President Joe Biden signed a hard fought bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new U.S. aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia, notching a rare bipartisan victory for the president as he seeks reelection and ending months of wrangling with Republicans in Congress. It gives...

   The U.S. government set up a likely court showdown over the scope of TikTok’s free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution after President Joe Biden signed legislation on Wednesday to ban the social media platform from app stores unless its Chinese owner sells it.While the bill itself does...

   The U.S. Transportation Department finalized new rules Wednesday requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees and mandates quick cash refunds for canceled flights, as well as for delayed baggage or inoperative services like onboard Wi Fi.The rules, which were nearly three years in the works, will...

   The U.S. Supreme Court’s current term features major cases involving former President Donald Trump’s ballot disqualification, his claim of immunity from prosecution, the abortion pill, gun rights, the power of federal agencies, social media regulation and Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement.Here...

   A U.S. Senate committee said on Wednesday it had launched an investigation into the prices of Novo Nordisk’s NOVOb.CO diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy in the United States.Senator Bernie Sanders, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, sent a...

   Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, some of which included Jewish Passover Seders, as demonstrators demanded an end to civilian casualties in Gaza.The growing protests follow mass arrests of demonstrators at some East Coast...

   The United States in recent weeks secretly shipped long range missiles to Ukraine for use in its battle to fight off Russian invaders, and Ukraine has now used them twice, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.The missiles were contained in a million military aid package for Ukraine that U.S....

   U.S. prosecutors want Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, to serve three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to violating laws against money laundering.Prosecutors made the request in a Tuesday night filing in Seattle...

   U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled plans on Wednesday to hold up to a dozen auctions of offshore wind development rights through , including four before the end of this year.The schedule will help companies, states and others plan for projects that require massive amounts of...

   A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rejected Starbucks’ SBUX.O claims that an employee vote to unionize at the coffee company’s flagship Seattle store was invalid because it was held via mail ballot during the COVID pandemic.A three judge th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a National...

   About million Americans live in cities or counties that received a failing grade for air quality, which has deteriorated to its worst in years across a swath of the U.S., in part because of wildfires, a report released on Wednesday found.The American Lung Association’s annual State of the...

   President Joe Biden secured another union’s backing on Wednesday as the organization representing American construction workers lined up behind the Democratic incumbent and called Republican candidate Donald Trump a dangerous threat to the nation.The head of the North America’s Building Trade Union...

   Joe Biden’s reelection campaign plans to continue using TikTok, a campaign official said on Wednesday, shortly after the U.S. president signed into law a bill that would ban the app if its Chinese owner fails to divest it.The decision comes as many young and left leaning voters, a significant part...