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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...

Trump is welcomed by Macron to Paris with presidential pomp and joined by Zelenskyy for their talks

Dec. 07, 2024 17:03 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Donald Trump to Paris on Saturday with a full dose of presidential pomp as the two held a hastily arranged meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy before celebrating the grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral. On a...

An archbishop's knock formally restores Notre Dame to life as winds howl and heads of state look on

Dec. 07, 2024 16:57 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — Howling winds couldn’t stop Notre Dame Cathedral ’s heart from beating again. With three resounding knocks on its doors by Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich, wielding a specially designed crosier carved from fire-scorched beams, the monument roared back to life...

The Latest: The famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris reopens to great fanfare

Dec. 07, 2024 15:26 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame is reopening its doors for the first time since a fire in 2019 nearly destroyed Paris' beloved 12th-century cathedral. World leaders — including President-elect Donald Trump, America’s first lady Jill Biden, Britain’s Prince William and Ukrainian...

AP Week in Pictures

Dec. 06, 2024 18:53 PM EST

Nov. 29-Dec.5, 2024 The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive on Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient business hub. Police in Tibilsi moved to disperse thousands of demonstrators protesting against...

US first lady Jill Biden in the capital of the United Arab Emirates on her last solo foreign trip

Dec. 05, 2024 12:18 PM EST

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Jill Biden used a tour of the United Arab Emirates' capital Thursday to praise efforts to fight cancer and call for more attention on women's health issues as part of her final solo foreign tour as first lady. Biden, 73, arrived in Abu Dhabi...

Jill Biden's final foreign trip as first lady will close with her and Trump at Notre Dame cathedral

Dec. 03, 2024 17:46 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden departed Tuesday on her final solo foreign trip as first lady, a six-day, four-country jaunt through Italy, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar that wraps with her and President-elect Donald Trump joining other dignitaries in Paris to celebrate the reopening of Notre...