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U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk towards the Marine One on the South Lawn before a departure from the White House Feb. 26, 2021 in Washington, D.C. The Bidens showed an annual combined income of $610,702 in 2021. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images/TNS)

Bidens Report $610,702 in Income Last Year, Trim Charity Giving

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden reported $610,702 in income in 2021 and paid $183,925 in federal and state income taxes, according to their annual tax return released … more

Justin Sink / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 4/15/22

Oil pumps and drilling equipment in an oil field in Kern County, where the majority of California's oil and gas production is centered. The Biden administration is dramatically curtailing U.S. public land available for new oil and gas development as it seeks to impose more environmental protections and financial limitations on the activity. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Biden Shrinks U.S. Land Open for New Oil and Gas Drilling

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration is dramatically curtailing U.S. public land available for new oil and gas development as it restarts leasing with new environmental … more

Jennifer A. Dlouhy / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 4/15/22

Journalists gather as bodies are exhumed from a mass-grave in the grounds of the St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints church in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 13, 2022. The European Commission President visited the mass grave in Bucha on April 8, where Russian forces are accused by Ukraine's allies of carrying out atrocities against civilians. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Russia Rejects Biden’s ‘Genocide’ Accusation, Claims Mass Capture of Ukrainian Troops

DNIPRO, Ukraine — As Russia sharply rejected President Joe Biden’s description of its wartime acts as “genocide,” Moscow on Wednesday asserted it had captured more than 1,000 … more

Nabih Bulos and Laura King / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 4/13/22

U.S. President Joe Biden announces steps to ease rising consumer prices at POET Bioprocessing, in Menlo, Iowa, on April 12, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

U.S. Producer Prices Jump 11.2% From a Year Ago, the Most on Record

Prices paid to U.S. producers jumped in March from a year ago by the most in records back to 2010, topping all estimates and underscoring persistent early stage inflationary pressures that risk … more

Olivia Rockeman / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 4/13/22

Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra at Capitol Hill on Sept. 30, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images/TNS)

Administration Extends Public Health Emergency for 90 Days

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Wednesday renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, just ahead of its April 16 expiration date, providing an extension of pandemic policies and … more

Ariel Cohen / CQ-Roll Call (TNS) | 4/13/22

15 People Shot in NYC Hours After Brooklyn Subway Shooting, Including Innocent Bystander in Car

NEW YORK — A 23-year-old woman sitting in a car in the Bronx was shot dead Tuesday night — the latest innocent bystander in the city killed by gun violence. The murder of Sally Ntim … more

Rocco Parascandola / New York Daily News (TNS) | 4/13/22

Baltimore City firefighters salute as an ambulance carries the body of Lt. Paul Butrim from the scene of a vacant row house fire on S. Stricker Street, on April 13, 2022. Four firefighters were trapped in a collapse while fighting the fire Monday morning. Three have died and a fourth is in critical condition. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun/TNS)

Deaths of Three Baltimore Firefighters Ruled Homicides; Blaze Was ‘Incendiary’

BALTIMORE — The deaths of three Baltimore firefighters in a January blaze have been classified as homicides, police said, after investigators determined the fire was “incendiary.” … more

Christine Condon / The Baltimore Sun (TNS) | 4/13/22

The larvae of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a container at the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) headquarters on June 9, 2021, in Marathon, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/TNS)

The Plan to Release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in California

LOS ANGELES — In the mosquito breeding rooms of British biotech company Oxitec, scientists line up fresh eggs, each the size of a grain of salt. Using microscopic needles, the white-coated … more

Melody Petersen / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 4/12/22

Gasoline prices hover around $4.00 a gallon for the least expensive grade at several gas stations in the nation's capital on April 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/TNS)

U.S. Inflation Quickens to 8.5%, Ratcheting Up Pressure on Fed

U.S. consumer prices rose in March by the most since late 1981, bolstering expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by half a point next month. The consumer price index … more

Olivia Rockeman / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 4/12/22

An elderly woman gestures toward a partially destroyed five-story building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on April 10, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Peril to Civilians Seen as Russia Readies Eastern Ukraine Onslaught; Mariupol Teeters

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — With Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling compatriots to brace for a fateful week, Western military officials warned Monday that Russian forces will likely resort … more

Nabih Bulos and Laura King / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 4/11/22

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Ghost Guns Rule in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday, April 11, 2022. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)

Biden to Tap New ATF Nominee and Finalize Ghost Gun Rules

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced the finalization of new federal rules restricting so-called “ghost guns” that allow purchasers to assemble potentially untraceable weapons … more

Justin Sink and Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 4/11/22

Shoppers wearing masks make their way through Reading Terminal Market in Center City. Indoor masking will be required in Philadelphia again next week, the city health department announced Monday. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

Philly Will Require Masks in Indoor Public Spaces Again as COVID-19 Cases Rise

PHILADELPHIA — Indoor masking will be required in Philadelphia again next week, the city health department announced Monday. The mandate announced Monday won’t go into effect until … more

Jason Laughlin / The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) | 4/11/22

In this file photo, the Soda Ranch winery along State Highway 128 near Healdsburg was consumed by the Kincade fire early Sunday morning, Oct. 27, 2019. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

PG&E to Pay More Than $55 Million to Avoid Criminal Prosecution for Starting Two Wildfires

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will avoid criminal charges for two wildfires started by its equipment under settlements announced Monday by district attorneys of six Northern California counties. … more

Alex Wigglesworth / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 4/11/22

A Delta Airlines airplane takes off from Atlanta International Airport, Georgia, on June 10, 2019. (Daniel Slim/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Hartsfield-Jackson Reclaims Title as World's Busiest Airport

ATLANTA — Hartsfield-Jackson International is again the world's busiest airport, reclaiming the title Atlanta lost when traffic plummeted during the pandemic. The Atlanta airport reported … more

Kelly Yamanouchi / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) | 4/11/22

Agape Boarding School, Stockton, Cedar County, Mo. (Jill Toyoshiba/The Kansas City Star/TNS)

Nine New Lawsuits Allege Torture, Starvation and Other Abuse at Missouri Boarding School

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nine new lawsuits have been filed alleging abuse at a southwest Missouri boarding school where five staffers are facing criminal charges for assaulting students. The … more

Judy L. Thomas and Laura Bauer / The Kansas City Star (TNS) | 4/11/22

Officials Confirm Eight Tornadoes in SC Last Week, Almost the State Yearly Average in One Day

COLUMBIA, S.C. — At least eight tornadoes struck South Carolina on Tuesday last week, approaching the state's yearly average in a single day. The National Weather Service of Columbia … more

Patrick McCreless / The State (Columbia, S.C.) (TNS) | 4/11/22

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an unannounced visit on Saturday, April 9, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Simon Dawson/Avalon/Zuma Press/TNS)

Ukrainians Flee as Russian Troops Converge on the East and South

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military stiffened defenses Sunday against Russian assaults in the east and south as civilians continued to flee the country in vast numbers and the … more

Nabih Bulos, Carolyn Cole and Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 4/10/22

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser and director of the NIAID, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images/TNS)

Fauci Says It’s Up to Each Person to Assess Their COVID Risk Now

Americans need to make their own medical risk assessments as COVID-19 cases accelerate in the United States, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser said, reflecting a less virulent virus … more

Ian Fisher / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 4/10/22

A sign alerts drivers to the COVID-19 testing and vaccination site at C.B. Smith Park on March 25, 2022, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. (John McCall/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS)

Officials: COVID Could Be Surging in the U.S. Right Now and We Might Not Even Know It

The rise of COVID cases in some regions of the U.S., just as testing efforts wane, has raised the specter that the next major wave of the virus may be difficult to detect. In fact, the country could … more

Madison Muller / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 4/10/22

Abortion rights activists rally at the Texas State Capitol on Sept. 11, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images/TNS)

Murder Charge Dropped Against Texas Woman Over ‘Self-Induced Abortion’

The murder charge over a “self-induced abortion” has been dropped against a 26-year-old Texas woman. District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez announced Sunday that she is dropping the … more

Kate Feldman / New York Daily News (TNS) | 4/10/22