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Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Sunday said “it was a mistake” for Democrats to allow Joe Biden to remain in the 2024 presidential race for as long as he did, echoing recent comments from other Democrats as the party reckons with fallout from new reporting on the then-president’s mental acuity. …

The car bombing outside a California fertility clinic that killed one person and injured four others appears to have been driven by anti-natalist ideology, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident. Anti-natalism refers to the belief that no one should have children. Investigators are focusing on …

VATICAN CITY — After leaving the Marines and beginning his higher education, Vice President JD Vance drifted into atheism — struggling, he would eventually write, with feelings of “irrelevance” in his faith and with “a desire for social acceptance among American elites.” Vance, who later converted to Catholicism, this weekend …

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that Moody’s Ratings were a “lagging indicator” after the group downgraded the U.S.’ credit rating by a notch from the highest level. “I think that Moody’s is a lagging indicator,” Bessent said Sunday. “I think that’s …

Former Vice President Mike Pence criticized President Donald Trump’s approach to tariffs, as well as several foreign policy initiatives, in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” airing Sunday. “The initial reciprocal tariffs that he unveiled would be the largest peacetime tax hike on the American people in the …

With a little over three minutes to go in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal matchup between the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics, Knicks forward Mikal Bridges hit a short pull-up jumper to give New York a 111-104 lead. After trailing by as many as 14 points …

Why 24-hour access matters At the same time, some birth control products have become more easily available through online purchasing and over the counter, including Opill, which last year became the first non prescription birth control pill available in the United States. New methods of birth control have also come …

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma high school students studying U.S. history learn about the Industrial Revolution, women’s suffrage and America’s expanding role in international affairs. Beginning next school year, they will add conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. Oklahoma’s new social studies standards for K-12 public school students, already infused with …

Before sunrise in Baltimore on Friday, the Rev. Robert Turner, senior pastor of the Empowerment Temple AME Church, set out to walk 43 miles from his church to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Turner, who has made the trip from Baltimore …

Share American Catholic ‘buzzing’ to be at inauguration Reporting from Vatican City Nico Zanarini, 27, converted to Catholicism this year and said he was “buzzing” thinking about seeing the pope. He came from an earlier mass this morning at St. Augustine Church, straight to St. Peter’s Square, saying he “couldn’t …