The Biden administration’s proposed flight delay compensation rule is the latest in a series of steps to improve travel and passenger protections.
Author: Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY
As COVID-19 emergency ends, CDC czar Rochelle Walensky resigns from Biden administration
Rochelle Walensky, head of the CDC, has resigned saying the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic was a good time to make a transition.
Biden’s Department of Justice asks court to explain dueling abortion-pill decisions
DOJ asked court to clarify the Food and Drug Administration’s duties after a competing ruling suspended the approval of mifepristone.
Biden boosts clean energy in coal country despite facing pushback from Congress on climate
The new funding comes weeks after Biden angered activists by approving one of the largest new oil and gas developments on federal land in 20 years.
‘Asleep at the wheel’: Lawmakers take aim at Feds for failing to prevent SVB bank collapse
A top Federal Reserve official called Silicon Valley Bank’s failure a “textbook case of bank mismanagement.” Fed regulators are also in the hot seat.
White House: China should include Ukraine president Zelenskyy in war talks with Russia, Putin
As China’s president heads to Russia, the Biden administration warned against a one-sided peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.
Biden calls on Congress to impose tougher penalties for bank failures
President Joe Biden wants Congress to expand the government’s ability to hold executives accountable for bank collapses, like at Silicon Valley Bank.
President Biden had basal cell cancerous tissue removed from his chest, White House says
A lesion removed from President Joe Biden’s chest recently was basal cell carcinoma, a common, relatively harmless skin cancer, the White House said.
Nuclear warfare? China arming Russia? Fears of new Cold War rise.
If the last remaining arms treaty between the Russia and the U.S. falls, there won’t be limits on their nuclear forces for the first time since the 1970s.
Biden calls Putin’s New START suspension a ‘big mistake.’ What is the nuclear arms treaty?
President Joe Biden wraps up a trip to Ukraine and Poland by calling Putin’s action on a key arms treaty a “big mistake.”