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Biden warmly welcomes India's Modi despite questions about human rights issues

President Biden is welcoming India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a state dinner at the White House. The two leaders share concerns about countering China.

The United States has one of the highest teen birth rates among developed nations, even after three decades of improvement. And Arkansas has the highest teen birth rate in the U.S., roughly tied with Mississippi.

Why childbirth is so dangerous for many young teens

Laws banning abortion in many conservative U.S. states are expected to boost birth rates among adolescents, whose bodies often aren't built for safe childbirth, or for carrying a pregnancy to term.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy talks with Reps. Patrick McHenry and Garret Graves, his top negotiators for the debt ceiling bill, during a news conference after its passage in the House.

House approves the Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling bill as default deadline looms

The House overwhelmingly approved the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 Wednesday evening on a 314-117 vote. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it will need 60 votes before it would go to Biden.

Tania Lopez of Mariachi Lindas Mexicanas at the MARIACHI USA festival in Los Angeles on June 18, 2022.

This LA music festival centers mariachi, a symbol of Mexican culture

In its 33rd year, Mariachi USA continues to center a genre that's rooted in folk traditions and has become a symbol of Mexican culture.

Rear Adm. John Mauger, the U.S. Coast Guard District commander, speaks during a news conference in Boston on Thursday about the search for the missing OceanGate submersible Titan.

All 5 passengers aboard Titan sub are dead after a 'catastrophic implosion'

After days of search and rescue efforts, U.S. Coast Guard officials have determined there was a "catastrophic implosion of the vessel," and that all on board died.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on April 20.

Alabama Republican blasts an effort to rid the military of white nationalists

Sen. Tommy Tuberville is under pressure for holding up military nominees over abortion policy he disagrees with. When asked whether that is hurting military readiness, he faulted President Biden.

Why can't Twitter and TikTok be easily replaced? Something called 'network effects'

The two popular social media services have amassed such an entrenched community of users that displacing the platforms is no small feat. Experts say it might not stay that way forever.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C, on March 22, 2023. The Fed raised interest rates again Wednesday but signalled it may be the last hike for a while.

The Fed raises interest rates again in what could be its final attack on inflation

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point Wednesday in an effort to curb persistent inflation. It was the tenth rate hike in 14 months, and possibly the last for a while.

President Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Covington, Ky., earlier this year to highlight Biden's economic plan on rebuilding infrastructure and creating good paying jobs.

Biden and McConnell have a debt limit past. Can they deliver another late-inning save?

Mitch McConnell may well wish to wash his hands of this year's blood-letting over the debt limit and all it entails. But he knows it will not be that easy. He may know that better than anyone.

Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 4, 2023.

The Justice Department adds to suits against Norfolk Southern over the Ohio derailment

The federal government is accusing Norfolk Southern of "unlawfully polluting" the country's waterways and violating the Clean Water Act in the accident near East Palestine.

The Fed's mission improbable: Beating inflation without causing a recession

Inflation is sky high. The Federal Reserve wants to bring it back to earth without crashing the economy. But achieving a so-called "soft landing" and avoiding a recession is easier said than done.

Alex Murdaugh swears to tell the truth before taking the stand to testify in his trial for murder at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., on Thursday, Feb. 23. The disgraced former lawyer admitted to lying about his alibi for the time leading up to the shooting deaths of his wife and son.

Alex Murdaugh denies killing his wife and son — but admits he lied about his alibi

The former lawyer's testimony in his own murder trial marks the latest dramatic shift in a case involving a wealthy, prominent South Carolina family.

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