Lashes Republicans

President Joe Biden lashed House Republicans in a speech at SUNY Westchester Community College for a debt ceiling standoff creeping closer to default.

Suffers head injury

The Los Angeles Lakers haven't yet classified the head injury Anthony Davis suffered in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals as a concussion,

G-7 finance meeting

A standoff in Washington over raising the U.S. debt ceiling overshadowed a meeting of Group of Seven (G7) finance leaders starting on Thursday, heightening U.S. recession fears as central banks seek a soft landing for the global economy.

Rail safety bill

The panel voted 16-11 to advance the sweeping bipartisan legislation.

Sanford asylum crisis

An influx of asylum seekers has overwhelmed city staff, who have been forced to cross-check General Assistance rolls in other communities to make sure no one is receiving benefits in 2 municipalities.

FDA backs OTC Opill

A panel of federal advisers voted Wednesday to back a drugmaker's request to sell a kind of birth control pills over-the-counter, clearing the way for the Food and Drug Administration to approve the first sale of oral contraception on U.S. store shelves without a prescription later this year.

Jamala at Eurovision

Ukrainian singer Jamala poses for a portrait prior to her concert at the National Opera in central Kyiv on Friday, May 5, 2023. Jamala won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 with a song about the deportation of Crimean Tatars. Fast forward to this Eurovision week and she's launching a new album, filled with more stories about her ancestors.

US destroys RU malware

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has revealed details of a joint operation in which Western agencies used a custom tool to destroy a decades-old Russian malware operation. Use of a tool named PERSEUS nullified a worldwide network of devices that had been infected with the Snake malware by threat actors in the group Turla.