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Biden and the first lady bring holiday cheer to patients and families at a children's hospital

Dec. 20, 2024 15:39 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, brought some Christmastime cheer to patients and their families at a children's hospital on Friday but a toddler in a light blue jumper entertained, too. The president and first lady visited privately with patients and their...

Biden honors the memory of his first wife and baby daughter who died in a 1972 car crash

Dec. 18, 2024 15:16 PM EST

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday honored the memory of his first wife and baby daughter 52 years after they were killed in a car crash in Delaware. Biden's wife, Neilia, 30, had taken their kids — 1-year-old daughter Naomi and sons Beau and Hunter — out...

Pharrell Williams is named a UNESCO goodwill ambassador

Dec. 18, 2024 03:45 AM EST

PARIS (AP) — Pop star and fashion designer Pharrell Williams was named UNESCO’s goodwill ambassador for artistic education and entrepreneurship on Tuesday in Paris, continuing his cultural dominance of the French capital as Louis Vuitton menswear artistic director and performer at Notre Dame...

Jill Biden says she has closed the book on teaching at Northern Virginia Community College

Dec. 17, 2024 15:01 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has closed the book on her teaching career at a Virginia community college. The first lady, who has spent the past 40 years teaching in classrooms, announced Monday that she had taught her final class at Northern Virginia Community College last week....

Notre Dame reopening spectacle caps a stellar year for luxury house LVMH

Dec. 14, 2024 08:26 AM EST

PARIS (AP) — The reopening of Notre Dame was a solemn celebration of cultural and spiritual renewal. Yet for some, the historic cathedral's revival also felt like a meticulously choreographed branding event by LVMH and other luxury conglomerates. Bernard Arnault, the lowkey...

Jill Biden tells military children at Marine Corps Reserve toy drive to remember that they are loved

Dec. 13, 2024 15:55 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than 10 minutes was all it took for a large pile of toys donated by the White House staff to disappear as Jill Biden and children from military families sorted them into boxes as part of the annual Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign for the less fortunate. ...

Biden says healthy women help US prosperity as he highlights White House initiative on their health

Dec. 11, 2024 15:33 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is “so proud” that a women's health research initiative he launched last year at his wife's urging has already invested nearly $1 billion because a healthy female population improves U.S. prosperity. “That's a...

Donald Trump is returning to the world stage. So is his trolling

Dec. 10, 2024 19:10 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. ...

Report on attempts to kill Trump urges Secret Service to limit protection of foreign leaders

Dec. 10, 2024 17:09 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional task force investigating the attempts to kill Donald Trump during his presidential campaign is recommending changes to the Secret Service, including protecting fewer foreign leaders during the height of election season and considering moving the agency out of the...

Trump isn't back in office but he's already pushing his agenda and negotiating with world leaders

Dec. 07, 2024 18:54 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — He's making threats, traveling abroad and negotiating with world leaders. Donald Trump has more than a month and a half to go before he's sworn in for a second term. But the Republican president-elect is already moving aggressively not just to fill his Cabinet and...