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Biden signs executive order on advancing study of women's health while chiding 'backward' GOP ideas

Mar. 18, 2024 15:36 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday aimed at advancing the study of women's health by strengthening data collection and providing better funding opportunities for biomedical research while chiding Republicans for having “no clue about the power of women" but...

A nonbinary student's death after a high school fight has been ruled a suicide. Here's what to know

Mar. 14, 2024 18:57 PM EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma say they still haven't finished their investigation into the death of a 16-year-old nonbinary student the day after a high school fight, which has been ruled a suicide by the state medical examiner's office. A summary autopsy report was...

Biden's big speech showed his uneasy approach to abortion, an issue bound to be key in the campaign

Mar. 10, 2024 12:49 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reproductive freedom took center stage during Biden’s State of the Union address, but abortion rights advocates had mixed reactions, raising concerns about the president trying to capitalize on what will be a central campaign issue while avoiding using the word “abortion.”...

Biden visiting battleground states and expanding staff as his campaign tries to seize the offensive

Mar. 09, 2024 04:25 AM EST

ROSE VALLEY, Pennsylvania (AP) — Fresh off his defiant State of the Union address, President Joe Biden on Friday laced into former President Donald Trump — by name this time — as he and his senior aides began barnstorming the country to aggressively sell his vision for a second term to...

State of the Union guests spotlight divide on abortion and immigration but offer some rare unity

Mar. 07, 2024 18:06 PM EST

The invitation list for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday speaks volumes about what Democrats and Republicans want to focus on as the 2024 election season heats up. Biden and Democratic lawmakers have invited several health care providers and women whose...

Betty Ford forever postage stamp is unveiled at the White House

Mar. 06, 2024 22:01 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new forever postage stamp bearing the portrait of former first lady Betty Ford was unveiled Wednesday afternoon in the East Room of the White House. And if there was a theme to the unveiling event, it focused on how the wife of 38th President Gerald Ford used...

First lady Jill Biden honors 'women of courage' at White House

Mar. 04, 2024 13:24 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden hosted a White House ceremony on Monday for “women of courage” who have fought political repression, sexual violence, economic hardship and gender discrimination around the world. “You’ve spoken out for yourselves and for others in...

Iranian singer who won Grammy for Mahsa Amini protest anthem is sentenced to prison in Iran

Mar. 01, 2024 20:23 PM EST

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian singer who won a Grammy presented by U.S. first lady Jill Biden has been sentenced to more than three years in prison over his anthem supporting the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. Shervin Hajipour posted on Instagram on...

Cuban political dissident to receive 2024 International Women of Courage award by US government

Mar. 01, 2024 17:16 PM EST

HAVANA (AP) — Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident who never left the island despite being imprisoned twice and accused of being a United States agent, will be awarded the 2024 International Women of Courage Award, the U.S. Department of State said Friday. Roque,...

Jill Biden casts Donald Trump as a threat to women as she opens a tour of battleground states

Mar. 01, 2024 16:41 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — First lady Jill Biden warned Friday that returning Donald Trump to the White House would threaten women who already have watched the former president’s Supreme Court picks nix a federal right to abortion services. Trump has “spent a lifetime tearing us down and...