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Pete Buttigieg is not the presidential candidate Americans are used to. He’s the mayor of a small city, the first millennial and first openly gay man to seek the Democratic nomination for president. His quest for presidency is a long shot: He doesn’t have the name recognition, big pockets or national profile of most of […]

Kathleen O’Donnell, left, with her wife, Casey. Since 2014, the couple has lived in Billings, Mont., where there is no explicit law that protects LGBTQ people from discrimination in housing, employment or public accommodations. It’s a hectic morning at the home of Kathleen O’Donnell and her wife, Casey. Kathleen is getting their 4-year-old foster daughter […]

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio may not be soaring in the polls, but he said he has one thing going for him that his fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates don’t: He’s been watching President Donald Trump for years and knows all his tricks. “I know something about Donald Trump that’s different from the other […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook announces details of the company’s new Apple TV+ video-streaming service Tuesday in Cupertino, Calif. Apple is entering the video-streaming race, taking on Netflix, Amazon, Disney and others with a monthly subscription of $4.99. The company also announced three new iPhones, even as their sales have been slowing. The new Apple TV+ […]

Bill Hagerty, the former ambassador to Japan under President Donald Trump, launched a run for Senate in Tennessee Monday, two months after Trump endorsed his prospective campaign. Hagerty, a businessman who served as Trump’s Tennessee Victory chair during the 2016 campaign, is running for the seat held by retiring GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander. In an […]

The Supreme Court will weigh in on a Louisiana abortion law that put restrictions on clinics that provide abortions. Updated at 6:24 p.m. ET The U.S. Supreme Court has jumped headlong back into the abortion wars. The court said Friday that it will hear arguments in a case from Louisiana that is nearly identical to […]

A long-awaited update to federal overtime rules means about 1.3 million workers will be entitled to extra pay when they work more than 40 hours a week. Updated at 11:54 a.m. ET The Labor Department is expanding the pool of workers eligible for overtime pay by about 1.3 million workers. But many critics say the […]

Institutional racism is a “white man’s problem” in America, former Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday. In a 90-minute interview with a small group of reporters at a campaign office in downtown Washington, Biden said racism has always been in America and white supremacists have always existed. “It’s real,” he said. “It’s there, and […]

Amber Rudd has resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary, accusing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson of an “assault on decency and democracy.” Britain’s Secretary of State for Work and Pensions resigned from Boris Johnson’s cabinet on Sunday, accusing the prime minister of “an assault on decency and democracy” for his handling of the ongoing Brexit […]

The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, photographed in 2017, six years after three reactors melted down. Three former Japanese utility executives responsible for the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant when it was smashed by a tsunami in 2011 were acquitted Thursday of negligence in connection with multiple reactor meltdowns at the station. Former […]