WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s campaign is making a play for white working-class and rural voters. In a campaign memo obtained by USA TODAY, Biden’s campaign outlined a pathway to victory in 2024 that runs through the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. It also highlighted investments in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada and indicated … Read more
los-angeles-dodger-pride-night-drama.jpg Los Angeles Dodgers v San Francisco Giants – Credit: Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images Bowing to pressure from conservatives including Sen. Marco Rubio, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced on Wednesday that they had uninvited an LGBTQ charity and drag performance group from participation in their annual Pride Night. The organization, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, is … Read more
Rory McIlroy is among the contenders for the 2023 PGA Championship (Getty Images) Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm could all contend at the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill. The New York course hosts this event for a fourth time, with a strong field set to battle across four days. Defending champion Justin … Read more
Text size Jerome Powell’s Fed is expected to hold rates steady in June after a series of increases. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Bonds are having a moment. With the Federal Reserve expected to be at the end of its interest-rate hiking cycle, investors are reassessing the fixed-income market—and looking to high-quality bonds with intermediate maturities as … Read more
In public at least, Boris Johnson was all smiles with Emmanuel Macron including at the G7 summit in 2021 Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson called French President Emmanuel Macron a four-letter obscenity and “Putin’s lickspittle” as tempers frayed over the war in Ukraine, according to a former Johnson aide. Guto Harri became director of … Read more
Dr. Joseph Varon comforts a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit on Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medical Center on Nov. 26, 2020 in Houston. (Go Nakamura/Getty Images) Friday’s declaration by the World Health Organization that the coronavirus emergency was “over” marked the end of a three-year journey that saw the world transformed by … Read more
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader said Thursday the city’s public libraries would not recommend books featuring “bad ideologies” to residents after they pulled titles related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and certain political figures, further shrinking the city’s freedoms. Chief Executive John Lee was addressing a lawmaker’s question about dozens of books … Read more
WASHINGTON − Five cities and the state of California are getting tailored support from the federal government to reduce homelessness under a new initiative the White House described to USA TODAY. The administration is sending a federal official into each community for up to two years to help cut red tape and better access federal … Read more
Ben Stiller put Lisa Loeb’s song “Stay (I Missed You)” in his movie Reality Bites. (Photo: Everett Collection, Getty Images) Where were you the first time you heard Lisa Loeb’s “Stay (I Missed You)”? The artist sent that question into the world on Wednesday, the 29th anniversary of the song, which was chosen for the … Read more
New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán was fined and hit with a 10-game suspension Wednesday for violating the league’s foreign substances rules. Germán will not appeal his suspension, and it will start immediately. He will be eligible to return May 28 against the San Diego Padres. The punishment came after Germán was ejected in the … Read more