KARINE JEAN-PIERRE

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is threatening to derail a bill designed to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the United States if Democrats revive their stalled package of energy and economic initiatives.

As Lebanon orders security forces to quash events "promoting homosexuality," 2 other nations work to root out rainbows that violate "public morals."

President Joe Biden says the deaths of migrants who were in the back of a tractor-trailer in Texas are "horrifying and heartbreaking."

President Joe Biden plans to meet on July 12 at the White House with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

President Joe Biden says the deaths of migrants who were in the back of a tractor-trailer in Texas are "horrifying and heartbreaking."

Desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America are seeking word of their loved ones as authorities begin identifying 51 people who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning in the sweltering Texas heat.

One year ago, Joe Biden strode into his first Group of Seven summit as president and confidently told the closest U_S_ allies that “America is Back.”.

In a pointed back and forth, the head of Chevron has complained that President Joe Biden has vilified energy firms at a time when gasoline prices are at near record levels and the president responded that the oil company CEO was being “mildly sensitive.”.

A Biden administration official said Tuesday a previous attempt to connect the couple failed because of an "unfortunate mistake."

The White House says a phone call between jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner and her wife has been rescheduled after an earlier attempt to connect on the couple’s anniversary failed because of an “unfortunate mistake."

President Joe Biden’s top political advisers are bracing for big election losses in November.

The White House says Florida doctors will be able to order COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 from the federal government.

In an abrupt change of course, the White House is now declining to comment on the frequency of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 testing regimen.

Florida is the only state that hasn’t preordered COVID-19 vaccines for toddlers in anticipation of their final approval by the federal government.

White House gets it wrong on unemployment level when Joe Biden took office

The White House’s outreach to Riyadh has provoked a fair amount of whiplash in Washington.

President Joe Biden will make his first trip to the Middle East next month with visits to Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia.

Not even the White House is immune from the economic trend that's been called the "great resignation” as employers struggle to fill vacancies and workers jump to new jobs at record rates.

President Joe Biden will meet with allies in Germany and Spain in late June as he seeks to hold together the fragile coalition opposing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

U.S. solar manufacturers are considering legal challenges after President Joe Biden declared a two-year pause on tariffs for solar imports from Southeast Asia.

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Actor Matthew McConaughey will join White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for the administration's daily press briefing.

López Obrador says he will not attend this week's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles because Biden is not inviting Cuba, Venezuela or Nicaragua.

The Department of Health and Human Services wants to know if the FDA followed its rules and procedures in investigating the contamination of baby formula and recalling it.

President Joe Biden says he has not changed his views on human rights despite his administration’s praise of Saudi Arabia for getting key oil producers to step up production.

President Joe Biden has decided to travel to Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks and is expected to meet with the kingdom’s once-shunned crown prince.

Corporate leaders knew in February that the infant formula industry faced a crisis. Biden says he wasn’t informed until April. The White House struggled to explain why.

President Joe Biden is leaning towards making a visit to Saudi Arabia — a trip that would likely bring him face-to-face with the Saudi crown prince he once shunned as a killer.

The Korean-pop music group visited the White House to speak on combatting a surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans.

President Joe Biden says he wasn't briefed on the prospect of nationwide shortages of infant formula for about two months.

The White House became an exclusive stage for global K-pop phenomenon BTS, who had been invited by the administration to raise awareness of the prevalence of anti-Asian discrimination.

K-pop group BTS went to the White House on Tuesday, the last day of AANHPI Heritage Month, to talk about Asian inclusion and representation as well as the rise in anti-Asian hate.

K-pop group BTS went to the White House on Tuesday, the last day of AANHPI Heritage Month, to talk about Asian inclusion and representation as well as the rise in anti-Asian hate.

K-Pop sensation BTS is visiting the White House to discuss combating the rise in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans with President Joe Biden.

BTS came to the White House to talk to Biden about Asian inclusion and representation, and to discuss a sharp rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in recent years.

The National Rifle Association is beginning its annual convention in Houston.

"When in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?" President Biden said earlier this week.

One by one, speakers took the stage at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston and denounced the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school across the state.

A bipartisan group of senators is trying to find a compromise on gun legislation.

White House reporters pressed Karine Jean-Pierre on why the Biden administration is not doing more to address mass shootings following the Uvalde, Texas tragedy

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to console families and honor victims of Tuesday’s mass school shooting in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.

An anguished and angry President Joe Biden is calling for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman massacred at least 19 children at a Texas elementary school.

An anguished and angry President Joe Biden is calling for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman massacred at least 19 children at a Texas elementary school.

A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis, the first of several flights expected from Europe aimed at relieving a nationwide formula shortage. (May 23)

A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million...

The formula was transported from Europe via military plane.

The shipment was the first of several flights carrying infant formula from Europe expected this weekend to relieve the deepening shortage in the U.S.

The formula was transported from Europe via military plane.

A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis.

U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol say after meeting that they will consider expanded joint military exercises to deter the nuclear threat from North Korea.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby is joining the White House, according to a person familiar with the matter, adding star power to the West Wing’s foreign policy communications team.

Placeholder while article actions loadPentagon spokesman John Kirby will move to the White House in a senior communications role, according to two people familiar with the personnel move. Kirby’s move to the White House comes after Karine Jean-Pierre took over as White House press secretary from Jen Psaki, who left the administration last week. Kirby met with President Biden at the White House the day after he offered the press secretary job to Jean-Pierre. On May 16 White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “representation matters” during her first, historic briefing serving in the role. (Video: The Washington Post)Kirby is expected to be heavily involved in White House communications, including working closely with the National Security Council.

Biden's vice president, spokeswoman and daughter are not close contacts when it comes to covid, raising the question: Who does meet at length with the president?

The White House says Ashley Biden, the daughter of President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, has COVID-19 and will no longer accompany her mother to Latin America trip.

Congressional bargainers have announced a deal on legislation to boost health care services and disability benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Biden will travel to Buffalo, New York, to console families of victims of a white gunman who targeted a Black community at a supermarket.

Biden will visit the supermarket where last weekend's deadly shooting took place, as well as visit with local leaders and law enforcement.

President Joe Biden mourned with Buffalo’s grieving families on Tuesday, then exhorted the nation to reject what he angrily labeled the poison of white supremacy.

President Joe Biden's new spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, says she hopes kids will “dream big and dream bigger” because she's now the White House press secretary.

Karine Jean-Pierre is crediting “barrier-breaking people” who came before her for making it possible for a Black, gay, immigrant woman like herself to hold one of the most high-profile jobs in American government.

Abbott Nutrition said it will still take months to get the product back on the shelves.

The FDA is "prepared to review applications quickly and respond to them rapidly," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday.

Karine Jean-Pierre held the first briefing as White House Press Secretary today. “I am a black gay immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this position,” Jean-Pierre said at the press briefing today. Jean-Pierre fielded questions related to the present government from the reporters in the room.

Jen Psaki is leaving as White House press secretary on Friday after having answered reporters’ questions nearly every weekday of the almost 500 days that President Joe Biden has been in office.

The Fox News host spewed a demeaning hot take on the new White House press secretary.

Karine Jean-Pierre is the first Black woman and the first openly gay person to hold the high-profile job. Here's her top advice for today's young people.

Incoming White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will take over daily White House press briefings after Jen Psaki departs on May 13.

"Are you?" the White House press secretary quipped to the often-combative Fox News reporter.

Jean-Pierre will also be the first openly gay person to have the most visible post at the White House aside from the president.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki is leaving the White House Wednesday.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki is leaving the White House Wednesday.

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he has named Karine Jean-Pierre to be the next White House press secretary.

President Joe Biden has named Karine Jean-Pierre to be the next White House press secretary.

Jean-Pierre will be the first black woman and the first openly LGBTQ+ person to serve as the White House Press Secretary.

Jean-Pierre will be the first black woman and the first openly LGBTQ+ person to serve as the White House Press Secretary.

Placeholder while article actions loadKarine Jean-Pierre will take over as President Biden’s next White House press secretary within weeks, replacing Jen Psaki who is set to leave the administration, the White House announced Thursday. As press secretary, Jean-Pierre will be responsible for holding the daily press briefing at the White House and helping advise Biden and the broader administration on communication and messaging efforts. She becomes the first Black and openly gay woman to serve as the White House press secretary. AdvertisementUnder former president Donald Trump, White House press secretaries often attacked the reporters they were addressing and challenged their motives, and for long stretches the White House suspended the daily press briefing altogether. Jeff Zients, the coronavirus coordinator; Cedric L. Richmond, director of the White House office of pubic engagement; Gina McCarthy, the national climate adviser; and Pili Tobar, the White House deputy communications director, have all left or plan to leave in the coming weeks.

Burns, who is fully vaccinated and boosted against Covid-19, last met with President Joe Biden on Wednesday morning.

CIA Director William Burns has tested positive for COVID-19.

Biden will receive his shot one day after the FDA approved second boosters for older and immunocompromised people.

Jean-Pierre said she saw President Biden at a meeting Saturday, but they were socially distanced, and he would not be considered a close contact by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

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White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre says she has tested positive for COVID-19 after having returned from Europe with President Joe Biden.

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said she tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday after returning from Europe with President Joe Biden, in the latest infiltration of the coronavirus into the West Wing's protective bubble around Biden. Jean-Pierre, the principal deputy press secretary, said she last saw Biden “during a socially distanced meeting” on Saturday. Biden, because he is fully vaccinated, is not considered a “close contact" under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

The United States and allies are stepping up sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

"That makes me sad, and we should figure it out," said Noem, who signed into law a bill banning transgender girls from participating in female sports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he welcomes a security dialogue with the West as his military reported pulling back some of its troops near Ukraine.

People can order the free tests at covidtests.gov.

As President Joe Biden wraps up his first year in the White House, he has held fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors at the same point in their presidencies, and has taken part in fewer media interviews than any of his recent predecessors.

Former President Barack Obama has commemorated the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as a man “who got things done."

A selection of some of the best images taken by agency photographers during the past year.

As President Joe Biden announces two more ambassador nominees, the White House and Democrats are warning that maneuvering by some Senate Republicans to block all but a small fraction of Biden’s diplomatic and other national security appointees is doing serious harm to U.S. diplomatic efforts around the globe.

Bowl-bound Army and Navy will meet for the 122nd time Saturday in the renewal of one of college football's biggest rivalries.

President Joe Biden has expressed alarm about a “backward slide” of democracy around the globe at a virtual Summit for Democracy.

After years of debate, Congress is on track to change how the U.S. military handles sexual assault cases, by taking some authority out of the hands of commanders and instead using independent prosecutors.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki has resumed daily press briefings after she was diagnosed with COVID-19 in late October.

The White House press secretary was back behind the podium of the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on Friday for the first time since testing positive for the coronavirus.

As the U.S. and China continue discussions on a virtual summit to be held between Xi and Biden, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics loom large.

The Biden administration says it will defend its rule requiring some 84 million workers to get vaccinated or undergo weekly testing. More than two dozen states have sued to stop it.

The Biden administration is framing its vaccine mandate for private employers in life-and-death terms in a legal filing that sought to get the requirement back on track after it was halted by a federal court.

The attorneys general of 27 states have filed federal lawsuits challenging a vaccine mandate for employers issued by the Biden administration.