In this photo provided by NASA, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's Starliner capsule aboard is illuminated by spotlights on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test, Saturday, May 4, 2024, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Fla. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will launch aboard to the International Space Station, scheduled for liftoff on May 6. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)
Samara Joy performs during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Samara Joy performs during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Queen Latifah performs during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Queen Latifah performs during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Queen Latifah performs during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Micah Nelson, from left, Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, and Neil Young of Crazy Horse perform during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Neil Young, of Crazy Horse, performs during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Micah Nelson, from left, Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, and Neil Young of Crazy Horse perform during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Micah Nelson, from left, Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina and Neil Young, of Crazy Horse, perform during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
FILE - President Barack Obama presents artist Frank Stella with the 2009 National Medal of Arts, Feb. 25, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday, May 4, 2024, at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - Co-pilots Dick Rutan, right, and Jeana Yeager, no relationship to test pilot Chuck Yeager, pose for a photo after a test flight over the Mojave Desert, Dec. 19, 1985. Rutan, a decorated Vietnam War pilot, who along with copilot Yeager completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling, died late Friday, May 3, 2024. He was 85. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File)
FILE - Balloonist Dick Rutan talks about the short flight of the Global Hilton balloon at a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M., Friday, Jan. 9, 1998. Rutan, a decorated Vietnam War pilot, who along with copilot Jeana Yeager completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling, died late Friday, May 3, 2024. He was 85. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf, File)
FILE - Sir Richard Branson, left, shakes hands with record breaking aviator Dick Rutan after Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket was unveiled, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, in Mojave, Calif. Rutan, a decorated Vietnam War pilot, who along with copilot Jeana Yeager completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling, died late Friday, May 3, 2024. He was 85. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Matt Hubbard arrives at an FYC event for "Loot" on Friday, May 3, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
FILE - President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, April 30, 2024.. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Stephen Miller speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday , Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night, lacing into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and for jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad.
CHARLOTTE — Highway signs welcome drivers entering North Carolina to “the nation’s most military friendly state,” and veterans here know they’re being courted. But in a state where camouflage-colored appeals have become commonplace, progressive groups are trying to cut into what has long bee…
GREENSBORO — He’s argued his four criminal indictments and mug shot bolstered his support among Black voters who see him as a victim of discrimination just like them.
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks inside Israel and U.S. support for the resulting war in Gaza, protests and rallies have sprouted at college campuses across the U.S.
A lot has been made of the trend of conservatives moving out of Democratic states and big cities and migrating to redder pastures.
TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli government formally declared war Sunday and gave the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas for its surprise attack, as the military tried to crush fighters still in southern towns and intensified its bombardment of the Gaza Str…
WASHINGTON — The White House is preparing Friday to direct federal agencies to get ready for a shutdown after House Republicans left town for the weekend with no viable plan to keep the government funded and avert politically and economically costly disruption of federal services.
WASHINGTON — At least six Supreme Court justices sound skeptical of making a broad ruling that would leave state legislatures virtually unchecked when making rules for elections for Congress and the presidency.
WASHINGTON — The House is set to give final approval Thursday to legislation protecting same-sex marriages in federal law, a monumental step in a decadeslong battle for nationwide recognition of such unions that reflects a stunning turnaround in societal attitudes.
ATLANTA — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s current term and capping an underwhelming midterm cycle for the GOP in th…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up a case with the potential to fundamentally reshape elections for Congress and the presidency.
James Nemeth has seen enrollment at Saints Peter & Paul High School, a parochial school on Maryland’s Eastern Shore grow from 152 to 187 pupils over the past two years, an increase of 23%.
