Biden's Briefing

“November is coming,” Ana Maria Archila said after Brett Kavanaugh was voted onto the nation’s highest court.

In the court of public opinion, Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio are winning.

Political campaigns and parties say they’re sending many more texts this year than in past elections as part of a search for alternatives to social media.

This November, Democrats are going to have to overcome an inherent disadvantage in many states due to gerrymandering.

French leader Emmanuel Macron is preparing broad changes within his government to jump start his presidency.

This week, Kansas City mayoral candidate and veteran Jason Kander announced he was quitting the race to face his PTSD.

Chinese buyers stop American crude imports as countries jostle on tariffs.

Social media and the rhetoric of President Donald Trump have upended the old world order in dangerous ways.

Dr. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad have won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end sexual violence.

During many kinds of emergencies, tech know-how is critical.

The algorithms that govern how we find information online are once again in the news - but you have to squint to find them.

Forty-four House Republicans are heading for the exits, and almost half of their seats have become top Democratic targets.

Sweden has long been one of the world’s most tolerant countries. In Sunday’s election, it demonstrated that no country is immune from the anti-immigrant, far-right backlash.

A new study of newspapers’ coverage of school shootings finds that images of suspects outnumber images of victims 16 to 1.

Obama urged supporters here to not only back Cordray but to also rally voters to back the nominee regardless of party.

Barack Obama delivered a widely covered speech about our current president and suggested that Donald Trump didn’t necessarily deserve much credit for the healthy economy.

For many young Hispanics, navigating their parents' culture in the U.S. has shaped their views on what it means to be American.

Cities are now serving as a unique testbed for responses to climate change. 

The problem is one that many moms and dads of young kids face all the time.

More than 1,000 Google employees, six U.S. senators and at least 14 human rights groups have written to the company expressing concern about its China ambitions.

People in Puerto Rico struggled to find drinkable water for months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Meanwhile, millions of water bottles sat unused on a runway.

Every American who gets private health insurance is at risk of getting a surprise medical bill.

The share of Americans without health coverage had been falling for years, but the newest annual shows that it stalled out in 2017.

Another active shooter has struck Florida, this time at a mall in Jacksonville. Here are the essential facts about a deadly phenomenon.

The former Russian ambassador received a salary payment twice as large as past years, and bankers blocked a $150,000 withdrawal.

One of Trump’s top federal prosecutors in North Carolina is going after noncitizen voters, and it could have dire consequences.

The United States, home to 4 percent of the world’s population, accounted for more than a third of its gun suicides in 2016.

Parents whose children died after hazing incidents are making an emotional appeal directly to fraternity members.

Want to know why he’s still in power? Look at his response to unpopular changes to Russia’s pension system.

After years of attacks, the Affordable Care Act is more popular than the Republican Party, Republican tax breaks, and the Republican president.

The Environmental Protection Agency is about to set in motion a review of one of the most significant — and expensive — air-pollution regulations the agency has ever issued.

Is the economy in good shape? Your answer is influenced by partisanship and has real-world consequences.

Air pollution is shaving months, and in some cases more than a year, off your life expectancy, depending on where you live.

American Violence puts up-to-date data at the fingertips of researchers, journalists, and policymakers.

QR codes are front and center in the anti-gun violence movement from March for Our Lives, launched by students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida.

The former president honored the former United Nations leader following Annan’s death on Saturday.

“This decision recognizes a moral imperative that must be addressed," the dean of medicine said of the move to offer free tuition to all students.

2018's global heat wave is so pervasive it's surprising scientists

The insider sales feed the narrative that corporate tax cuts enrich executives in the short term while yielding less clear long-term benefits for workers.

How life has changed for Americans aged 25 to 34

The “incredible health care plans” he’s so excited about won’t even be available to buy until September.

The military’s apparent interference in the campaign is a bad sign.

2.4 million Floridians have some college credit but no diploma. What would happen if they completed their degrees?

Nearly three times as many American parents fear for their child’s safety at school today than during the immediate aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

A change to the way administrative law judges are hired could threaten their independence.

Thousands in Poland took to the streets in mass demonstrations Thursday, after the president signed into law a new measure tightening the nationalist ruling party’s grip on the Supreme Court.

Both men and women will see their pay adjusted.

Amid a plummeting supply of teachers nationwide, Pennsylvania is spending $2 million to recruit and retain more educators.

Since 2014, the gun rights group has paid more than $60 million to a little known contractor for ads in must-win political races. Did it break campaign finance laws in the process?

I spent a night on the bridge connecting the US and Mexico talking to desperate people who hoped their asylum pleas would be heard.

Months into new equal-pay law, companies in the island nation are already fixing the gap.