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First lady tells authors of new biography she cut off push to recruit her husband to challenge George W Bush in 2004

Legal and moral taboos were shattered with the use of chemical weapons during Syria's civil war

MIAMI — The Cuban government has not been accepting deportations of Cuban nationals from the U.S. for more than six months, at a time when tens of thousands are leaving the island to reach the U.S. in the largest exodus since the 1980s Mariel boatlift.

For more than a millennium, the haggadah has been the centerpiece of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The book sets out the ceremony for the Seder meal, when families tell the biblical Exodus story of God delivering the ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

Ezekiel Emanuel chairs the department of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He started the bioethics department at the National Institutes of Health, helped shape U.S. health-care policy as a senior aide in the Obama administration, served on President Joe Biden's COVID-19 task force, and advocates…

Turnout of voters that form the core of the Democratic Party base — Blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans, single women, the young — drops sharply in non-presidential election years, like 2022. That, plus Biden’s weak approval numbers, are largely why Republicans believe they will sweep to control…

Yesterday evening, a Ukrainian MP said Russia used an 'unknown substance' in the besieged city of Mariupol. She claimed the substance used could be chemical weapons. Here's everything you need to know

Reports emerged from Ukraine on April 11, 2022, alleging that Russia had used a drone to drop an unknown chemical agent in the besieged southern city of Mariupol.

Stronger sanctions on Russia and sending more weapons to Ukraine are just two most issues on which voters are siding with the GOP over Biden.

President Joe Biden named his second pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Monday, as part of a broader push to highlight the administration’s efforts to address gun violence. Steven Dettelbach, who previously served as a U.S. attorney in Ohio during the Obama administration, would…

With midterm elections on the horizon, voters across America soon will weigh their choices. They should also be thinking hard about another critical aspect to this election season — the broad, systematic campaign underway to suppress access to the vote, a movement particularly directed at Americans of color.