White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made the election pledge after Trump in Wisconsin placed conditions on accepting the results.
Exxon Mobil's $60 billion deal to buy Pioneer Natural Resources on Thursday received clearance from the Federal Trade Commission, but the former CEO of Pioneer was barred from joining the new company's board of directors. The FTC said Thursday that Scott Sheffield, who founded Pioneer in 1997, colluded with OPEC and OPEC+ to potentially raise crude oil prices.
First lady Jill Biden was opening the White House on Thursday to more than 50 of America's best educators, hosting the 2024 national and state teachers of the year at a fancy dinner to recognize them for their commitment to students and excellence in the classroom. The teachers typically attend a White House ceremony every year after their selection by an organization that represents elementary and secondary school educators.
A Georgia senior living community fired an elderly worker shortly after honoring her as an employee of the year, regulators allege.
Trump's remarks on Wednesday follow his pattern of false claims around the 2020 election and efforts to sow doubt in election integrity.
South Carolina's ban on abortions after roughly six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant, returned to court Thursday with Planned Parenthood and the state arguing over what could be two different ways to define a heartbeat in the law. Grayson Lambert, a lawyer for South Carolina's governor, said established law in the state has long said if there are disagreements with interpreting the law, judges need to give the most weight to the intent of lawmakers.
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After a strong winter for the US labor market, economists expect hiring to have slowed in April.
Authorities in Portland say an arsonist set fire to at least 15 police cars at a training facility early Thursday.
Palestinian advocacy groups said Thursday that the head of orthopaedics at Gaza's largest hospital Al-Shifa has died in Israeli custody, alleging he had been tortured during his detention.The groups said evidence suggested the two men had died "as a result of torture".
A US judge on Thursday pushed against the central pleas of both US government and Google lawyers as he heard their closing arguments at a landmark antitrust trial in Washington.You have to establish foreclosure first and if you can't, you lose," Mehta told the US government lawyers.
President Joe Biden urged that "order must prevail" amid pro-Palestinian protests that are roiling college campuses across the country, emphasizing that violent protests are not protected under the law.
Thousands of Slovaks rallied in the capital on Thursday to protest – again – a controversial overhaul of the country’s public radio and television services, a move that critics say would result in the government taking full control of the media. The coalition government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico approved the measure on April 24, and the Parliament, where Fico’s coalition government has a majority, is expected to approve it in June. The plan has been widely criticized by President Zuzana Čaputová, local journalists, the opposition, international media organizations and the European Commission.
This is the second Boeing whistleblower to die in the last two months.
NATO countries say they are deeply concerned by a campaign of hybrid activities on the military alliance's soil they attribute to Russia, and which they say constitute a threat to their security. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday in a message posted on the social media platform X that actions including disinformation, sabotage, acts of violence and cyber and electronic interference “will not deter us from supporting Ukraine.” There was no immediate response to a request for comment from the Russian Foreign Ministry on Stoltenberg's statement.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday called close US ally Japan “xenophobic” at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser, just weeks after lauding the US-Japan alliance at a state dinner.
The Internal Revenue Service detailed its plans Thursday to significantly ramp up audit rates of wealthy taxpayers and large corporations, using funds provided by the Democrat-backed Inflation Reduction Act that passed in 2022.
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The face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman named Shanidar Z was recreated after Cambridge archeologists excavated her body from an Iraqi cave.
Dozens of overturned tents, "Free Palestine" signs strewn on the lawn, keffiyehs and flashlights discarded in haste: not much of the pro-Palestinian protest encampment was left Thursday morning at the University of California, Los Angeles.That was in sharp contrast to the scene at the private University of Southern California, also in Los Angeles, which called in police in riot gear on the first day that a protest encampment was set up.