Latest Jill Biden News

Biden launches a Hollywood fundraising blitz to tap into star power with strikes over

Dec. 08, 2023 23:31 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Here's a Hollywood ending that President Joe Biden wants to bring to life: An incumbent facing tough polling numbers and questions about his advanced age overcomes a brash opponent to win a second term at the White House. With strikes by writers and actors now...

Jill Biden and military kids sort toys the White House donated to the Marine Corps Reserve program

Dec. 06, 2023 16:15 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden and children from military families on Wednesday helped sort toys donated by the White House to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program, which gives playthings to needy children. The children also enjoyed skating on the South Lawn's new...

Kennedy Center Honors fetes new inductees, including Queen Latifah, Billy Crystal and Dionne Warwick

Dec. 04, 2023 14:46 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The newest group of Kennedy Center honorees, including comedian Billy Crystal and rapper and actor Queen Latifah, were feted at a star-studded event commemorating their lifetime achievement in arts and entertainment. Opera singer Renée Fleming, music star Barry...

Jill Biden brings a holiday ice rink to the White House for children to skate and play hockey

Nov. 29, 2023 22:33 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden extended her holiday theme of “Magic, Wonder and Joy” to the White House grounds with an ice rink on the South Lawn for children to skate and play hockey in December. “Who's ready to skate?” she said, after several ice skating performances by...

Rosalynn Carter honored by family, friends, first ladies and presidents, including husband Jimmy

Nov. 28, 2023 20:23 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most. A gathering of first ladies and...

Deck the White House halls: Jill Biden wants holiday visitors to feel like kids again

Nov. 28, 2023 09:46 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Step inside the White House during the holidays by walking beneath the branches of a Christmas tree. Stroll along a hallway decorated with oversized holiday candy and other sweets. See Santa's sleigh and his eight reindeer suspended above the grand foyer in dramatic fashion. ...

Rosalynn Carter tributes highlight her reach as first lady and humanitarian

Nov. 27, 2023 20:45 PM EST

AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds turned out to salute Rosalynn Carter on Monday with the former U.S. first lady and global humanitarian's final journey from her rural hometown to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta as her family began three days of memorials following her death at age...

Family lunch, some shopping, a Christmas tree lighting: President Joe Biden's day out in Nantucket

Nov. 24, 2023 18:35 PM EST

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — It wasn’t all work and no play for President Joe Biden on Friday on this picturesque Massachusetts island. He spent much of the day in multiple briefings with national security aides, who were updating him as the first phase of hostages were released in...

Biden pardons National Thanksgiving Turkeys while marking his 81st birthday with jokes about his age

Nov. 20, 2023 23:47 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Turkeys Liberty and Bell have new appreciation for the phrase, “Let freedom ring.” The Thanksgiving birds played their part Monday in annual White House tradition that this year coincided with President Joe Biden 's 81st birthday: a president issuing a pardon...

Rosalynn Carter, outspoken former first lady, dies at 96

Nov. 19, 2023 22:37 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96. The Carter Center said she died Sunday after living with dementia and...