WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden trained her educator's eye on the White House public tour and on Monday unveiled an updated design to teach visitors more about the mansion's history and events that unfolded in some of its famous rooms.

2. Trump compares jailed Capitol rioters to Japanese internment during World War II - Friday, October 18, 2024

Former President Donald Trump on Friday compared the people jailed on charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to the more than 120,000 people of Japanese origin incarcerated on U.S. soil during World War II.

3. Jimmy Carter at 100: A century of changes for a president, the US and the world since 1924 - Friday, September 27, 2024

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is about to reach the century mark.

4. Supreme Court justices have a job for life. But some left the court to make their lasting mark - Friday, September 20, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the summer of 1941, James F. Byrnes became a Supreme Court justice. Little over a year later, he had had enough and left the court to take a key role in planning the nation's wartime economy.

5. Could YOU pass a citizenship test? - Friday, September 13, 2024

Immigrants seeking to become United States citizens have to show a working knowledge of the nation's history and how the federal government functions. And they don't get multiple choices.

Could YOU pass even a dumbed-down citizenship test? Let's find out!

6. Biden's journey: After getting knocked down, he keeps getting back up - Friday, August 16, 2024

CHICAGO (AP) — Sixteen years ago, a triumphant Joe Biden addressed an adoring crowd at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, his smile radiating confidence about the country's future and his own journey.

7. Transcript: Biden's speech explaining why he withdrew from the 2024 presidential race - Friday, July 26, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Transcript of President Joe Biden's address to the nation on July 24, 2024:

My fellow Americans, I'm speaking to you tonight from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. In this sacred space, I'm surrounded by portraits of extraordinary American presidents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the immortal words that guide this nation. George Washington, who showed us presidents are not kings. Abraham Lincoln, who implored us to reject malice. Franklin Roosevelt, who inspired us to reject fear.

8. Kamala Harris faces a major test as she looks for a running mate for her White House run - Friday, July 19, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is zeroing in on four potential candidates as she races to choose a running mate for her fledgling campaign, fast-tracking a process that usually takes months but must be finalized in only a few weeks.

9. Biden's press conference will be a key test for him. But he's no master of the big rhetorical moment - Friday, July 12, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has a fresh opportunity Thursday to try to prove to the American public that he's capable of serving another four years after his shocking debate flop threw the future of his presidency into doubt. But Biden is not known as a master of the big rhetorical moment and his recent cleanup efforts have proved inadequate.

10. Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants - Friday, April 19, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities. He also plans to expand his New Deal-style American Climate Corps green jobs training program.

11. Energy agency announces $6 billion to slash emissions in industrial facilities - Friday, March 22, 2024

The Biden administration announced $6 billion in funding Monday for projects that will slash emissions from the industrial sector — the largest-ever U.S. investment to decarbonize domestic industry to fight climate change.

12. Transcript of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address - Friday, March 8, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — A transcript of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on March 7, 2024, as prepared for delivery and provided by the White House:

Good evening.

Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Members of Congress. My Fellow Americans.

13. Biden's vow of affordable internet for all is threatened by the looming expiration of subsidies - Friday, February 2, 2024

LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden recently traveled to North Carolina to promote his goal of affordable internet access for all Americans, but the promise for 23 million families across the U.S. is on shaky ground.

14. Zelenskyy issues plea for support during Washington visit as Ukraine funding stalls in Congress - Friday, December 8, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy kicked off a quick visit to Washington on Monday, warning in a speech at a defense university that Russia may be fighting in Ukraine but its "real target is freedom" in America and around the world. He also issued a personal plea for Congress to break its deadlock and approve continued support for Ukraine.

15. Biden declares Israel, Ukraine support is vital for US security, will ask Congress for billions - Friday, October 20, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring that U.S. leadership "holds the world together," President Joe Biden told Americans on Thursday night the country must deepen its support of Ukraine and Israel in the middle of two vastly different, unpredictable and bloody wars.

16. Biden campaign launches account on Trump's Truth Social, saying 'converts welcome' - Friday, October 13, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden 's 2024 campaign launched an account on Donald Trump 's Truth Social on Monday, attempting to poke online fun at the Republican candidate he may well face again in next fall's election.

17. Biden urges striking auto workers to "stick with it" in picket line visit unparalleled in history - Friday, September 22, 2023

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden grabbed a bullhorn on the picket line Tuesday and urged striking auto workers to "stick with it" in an unparalleled show of support for organized labor by a modern president.

18. Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps - Friday, September 22, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.

19. US, Japan and South Korea agree to expand security and economic ties at historic Camp David summit - Friday, August 18, 2023

CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden and the leaders of Japan and South Korea agreed Friday to expand security and economic ties at a historic summit at the U.S. presidential retreat of Camp David. Their meeting and agreement come at a time that the three countries are on an increasingly tense ledge in their relations with China and North Korea.

20. At Camp David, Biden aims to nudge Japan and South Korea toward greater unity in complicated Pacific - Friday, August 18, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden aims to further tighten security and economic ties between Japan and South Korea, two nations that have struggled to stay on speaking terms, as he welcomes their leaders to the rustic Camp David presidential retreat Friday.

21. US, Japan, South Korea to announce deeper defense cooperation at Camp David summit - Friday, August 11, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States, Japan and South Korea are expected to announce plans for expanded military cooperation on ballistic missile defenses and technology development in the face of growing concern about North Korea's nuclear program when the countries' leaders gather at Camp David for a summit Friday, according to two senior Biden administration officials.

22. Indictment shows White House lawyers struggling for control as Trump fought to overturn election - Friday, August 11, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — A few hours after rioters laid siege to the Capitol, overpowering police in a violent attack on the seat of American democracy on Jan. 6, 2021, the White House's top lawyer, Pat Cipollone, called his boss with an urgent message.

23. Biden is eager to run on the economy — 'Bidenomics' — but voters have their doubts - Friday, June 23, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is eager to take full political ownership of the U.S. economy — a reflection of the White House belief that inflation is fading, job growth is solid and voters need to know about it.

24. Biden, Sunak vow to stick together on Ukraine, deepen cooperation on clean energy transition, AI - Friday, June 9, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday reiterated their commitment to help Ukraine repel Russia's ongoing invasion, while agreeing to step up cooperation on challenges their economies face with artificial intelligence, clean energy, and critical minerals.

25. Biden, Sunak vow to stick together on Ukraine, deepen cooperation on clean energy transition, AI - Friday, June 9, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday reiterated their commitment to help Ukraine repel Russia's ongoing invasion, while agreeing to step up cooperation on clean energy and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.

26. Can Biden win again? Here's how past incumbents fared - Friday, April 28, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — No president wants to give up the power and prestige that comes with the office after only one term, and Joe Biden is no exception. He's pushing forward even though polls show a majority of Americans don't want to see him run again.

27. Saudi Arabia places order for up to 121 planes from Boeing - Friday, March 10, 2023

Two Saudi Arabian airlines said Tuesday they will order 78 jetliners from Boeing and take options to buy 43 more in a major boost for the American aircraft manufacturer.

The order for Boeing 787s will be divided between Saudi Arabia's flag carrier, Saudia, and a planned new airline called Riyadh Air, which Saudi officials introduced over the weekend.

28. After Jan. 6: Congress born of chaos ends in achievement - Friday, December 23, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 117th Congress opened with the unfathomable Jan. 6, 2021, mob siege of the Capitol and is closing with unprecedented federal criminal referrals of the former president over the insurrection — all while conducting one of the most consequential legislative sessions in recent memory.

29. In campaign swing, Biden focuses on incumbent Democrats - Friday, November 4, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's travel plan for his last big campaign swing before Tuesday's midterm elections reveals his defensive stance in the campaign's closing days: He's spending the bulk of his time trying to hang on to seats that his party already holds.

30. For Biden and Trump, 2022 is 2020 sequel — and 2024 preview? - Friday, October 14, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — This year's midterm elections are playing out as a strange continuation of the last presidential race — and a potential preview of the next one.

Donald Trump, who refused to exit the stage after his defeat, has spent months raging against Joe Biden, reshaping down-ballot campaigns that normally function as a straightforward referendum on the incumbent president.

31. How Social Security works and what to know about its future - Friday, October 14, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of millions of older Americans will see a major increase in benefits this January when a new cost-of-living adjustment (or COLA) is added to Social Security payments.

The 8.7% raise is meant to help them with higher prices for food, fuel, and other goods and services. The average recipient will see an increase of more than $140 per month, according to government estimates.

32. Social Security benefits to jump by 8.7% next year - Friday, October 14, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Social Security recipients will get an 8.7% boost in their benefits in 2023, a historic increase but a gain that will be eaten up in part by the rising cost of everyday living.

33. World opinion shifts against Russia as Ukraine worries grow - Friday, September 23, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — The tide of international opinion appears to be decisively shifting against Russia, as a number of non-aligned countries are joining the United States and its allies in condemning Moscow's war in Ukraine and its threats to the principles of the international rules-based order.

34. Big reveal: Biden to help unveil Obama White House portrait - Friday, September 2, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, for the unveiling of their White House portraits, part of a beloved Washington tradition that for decades managed to transcend partisan politics.

35. Basement talk, virtual handshake led to Manchin-Schumer deal - Friday, July 29, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin secreted themselves in a basement room at the Capitol.

The two men had been wrestling for more than a year in long, failed rounds of start-and-stop negotiations over President Joe Biden's big rebuilding America package. But talks had jammed up — again. With the midterm elections near, control of Congress at stake, the president and his party were at the end of the line.

36. All about Manchin: What Biden wanted for US, senator did not - Friday, July 15, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — It launched as the new president's ambitious plan for rebuilding America — a $2.3 trillion domestic infrastructure investment coupled with a $1.8 trillion plan to bolster U.S. families with support for health care, child care, college costs, unseen in generations.

37. Black educator Mary McLeod Bethune honored in Statuary Hall - Friday, July 8, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune on Wednesday became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol's Statuary Hall

38. AP Interview: Biden says recession is 'not inevitable' - Friday, June 17, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday the American people are "really, really down" after a tumultuous two years with the coronavirus pandemic, volatility in the economy and now surging gasoline prices that are slamming family budgets. But he stressed that a recession was "not inevitable" and held out hope of giving the country a greater sense of confidence.

39. Biden signs Ukraine bill, seeks $40B aid, in Putin rejoinder - Friday, May 6, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington sought to portray a united front against Russia's invasion of Ukraine as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan measure to reboot the World War II-era "lend-lease" program, which helped defeat Nazi Germany, to bolster Kyiv and Eastern European allies.

40. House passes military lend-lease bill to speed Ukraine aid - Friday, April 29, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House gave final passage Thursday to legislation that would streamline a World War II-era military lend-lease program to more quickly provide Ukraine and other Eastern European countries with American equipment to fight the Russian invasion.

41. Biden puts focus on drug prices as he tries to revive agenda - Friday, February 11, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is trying to jump-start progress on his stalled domestic agenda by refocusing attention on one of his most popular proposals, limiting the cost of prescription drugs.

42. Biden pays silent tribute as Reid lies in state at Capitol - Friday, January 7, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — The late Sen. Harry Reid was remembered Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol as a "legendary leader," a hardscrabble Democrat who rose from poverty in a dusty Nevada mining town to deliver landmark legislation from the chamber's most powerful position.

43. Biden praises Canada, Mexico as leaders discuss strains - Friday, November 19, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reviving three-way North American summitry after a five-year break, President Joe Biden on Thursday joined with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to declare their nations can work together and prove "democracies can deliver" even as they sort out differences on key issues.

44. Thanksgiving has good claim for top US holiday - Friday, November 19, 2021

As the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving approaches, I suggest that maybe the annual celebration should be recognized as America’s top holiday. Ahead even of Christmas, the perennial No. 1.

45. Biden signs $1T infrastructure bill with bipartisan audience - Friday, November 12, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed his $1 trillion infrastructure deal into law Monday on the White House lawn, hailing it as an example of what bipartisanship can achieve.

The president hopes to use the law to build back his popularity and says it will deliver jobs, clean water, high-speed internet and a clean energy future. Support for Biden has taken a hit amid rising inflation and the inability to fully shake the public health and economic risks from COVID-19.

46. Biden asking Democrats do so much with so little in Congress - Friday, November 5, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rarely have the leaders of Congress been asked to do so much, with so little, as in navigating President Joe Biden's big domestic vision into law.

Reaching for FDR-style accomplishments with slimmer-than-ever Democratic majorities has been politically messy at best, arduous at worst, and about to become even more daunting for the president and his party.

47. Biden seeks votes for his $1.75T plan: 'Let's get this done' - Friday, October 29, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said he and Democrats in Congress reached a "historic" framework for his sweeping domestic policy package. But he still needs to lock down votes from key colleagues for what's now a dramatically scaled-back bill.

48. Biden announces 'historic' deal — but still must win votes - Friday, October 29, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden declared Thursday he had reached a "historic economic framework" with Democrats in Congress on his sweeping domestic policy package, a hard-fought yet dramatically scaled-back deal announced just before he departed for overseas summits.

49. Big boost for Social Security benefits as inflation rises - Friday, October 8, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost in benefits for 2022. The biggest cost-of-living adjustment in 39 years follows a burst in inflation as the economy struggles to shake off the drag of the coronavirus pandemic.

50. YWCA names 2021 Achievement honorees - Friday, September 17, 2021

YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee is recognizing five women and one corporate honoree who have made their mark in Nashville. This group will be officially inducted into the 2021 Academy for Women of Achievement in spring 2022.

51. Biden, Democrats push Civilian Climate Corps in echo of New Deal - Friday, September 10, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inspired by the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing for a modern counterpart: a Civilian Climate Corps that would create hundreds of thousands of jobs building trails, restoring streams and helping prevent catastrophic wildfires.

52. Biden's complicated new task: keeping Democrats together - Friday, August 13, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden overcame skepticism, deep political polarization and legislative gamesmanship to win bipartisan approval in the Senate this week of his $1 trillion infrastructure bill.

53. Top Davidson County residential sales for July 2021 - Friday, August 13, 2021

Top residential real estate sales, July 2021, for Davidson County, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

Chandler Reports has been publishing Real Estate Market Data since 1968. That year, Chandler began collecting residential sales information for the Chandler Residential Report, considered the authoritative source for residential real estate sales information. Over the next three decades, the publications have been continually refined, enhanced and expanded, growing to include lot sales data, new residential construction and absorption information, and commercial sales. In 1987, Chandler Reports began one of the first on–line real estate market data services in the country, and is a nationally recognized leader in the industry. In 2004, Chandler Reports was purchased by The Daily News Publishing Co. In 2007, Chandler introduced RegionPlus, including property research for Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Visit online at chandlerreports.com.

54. Biden signs competition order targeting big business - Friday, July 9, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday targeting what he labeled anticompetitive practices in tech, health care and other parts of the economy, declaring it would fortify an American ideal "that true capitalism depends on fair and open competition."

55. Biden taking bipartisan infrastructure deal on the road - Friday, June 25, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will look to sell voters on the economic benefits of the $973 billion infrastructure package while in Wisconsin on Tuesday, hoping to boost the bipartisan agreement that is held together in large part by the promise of millions of new jobs.

56. Biden working to get infrastructure package back on track - Friday, June 25, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hoping to get the bipartisan infrastructure deal on track by highlighting its expected economic benefits, stressing its $973 billion would include the largest investment in transportation in nearly a century and millions of jobs would be created.

57. Biden turns to Georgia to begin pitch for huge spending plan - Friday, April 30, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the closing days of his presidential campaign, Joe Biden swung through the Georgia town where Franklin Delano Roosevelt coped with polio, making the case that government can be a force for good. Now, 100 days after taking office, Biden is returning to the state trying to sell voters on his ambitious vision.

58. Analysis: Biden pitches big government as antidote to crises - Friday, April 30, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Forty years ago, a newly elected American president declared government the source of many of the nation's problems, reshaping the parameters of U.S. politics for decades to come. On Wednesday night, President Joe Biden unabashedly embraced government as the solution.

59. More action, less talk, distinguish Biden's 100-day sprint - Friday, April 23, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The card tucked in President Joe Biden's right jacket pocket must weigh a ton. You can see the weight of it on his face when he digs it out, squints and ever-so-slowly reads aloud the latest tally of COVID-19 dead.

60. Biden assigns study on delicate issue of Supreme Court - Friday, April 9, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered a study on overhauling the Supreme Court, creating a bipartisan commission Friday that will spend the next six months examining the politically incendiary issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits for justices, among other issues.

61. Biden readies for 1st news conference, White House tradition - Friday, March 19, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — He'd led allied armies in the defeat of Nazi Germany only to find himself, a decade later, a tad intimidated before the cameras in an echoey room of the Old Executive Office Building, ready to make history again.

62. COVID relief bill could permanently alter social safety net - Friday, March 12, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package is being hailed by Democrats and progressive policy advocates as a generational expansion of the social safety net, providing food and housing assistance, greater access to health care and direct aid to families in what amounts to a broad-based attack on the cycle of poverty.

63. Biden's big relief package a bet gov't can help cure America - Friday, March 5, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants America to know that he's from the government and he's here to help.

That sentiment became a well-worn punchline under Ronald Reagan and shaped the politics of both parties for four decades. Democrat Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the 1990s, Barack Obama largely kept his party in the same lane and Republican Donald Trump campaigned on the premise that Washington was full of morons, outplayed by the Chinese and others.

64. Churchill painting owned by Angelina Jolie sells for $11.5M - Friday, February 26, 2021

LONDON (AP) — A Moroccan landscape painted by Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie sold at auction on Monday for more than $11.5 million, smashing the previous record for a work by Britain's World War II leader.

65. Longtime Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz dies at 100 - Friday, February 5, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 100.

66. AP-NORC Poll: Americans open to Biden's approach to crises - Friday, February 5, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks into a new administration, a majority of Americans say they have at least some confidence in President Joe Biden and his ability to manage the myriad crises facing the nation, including the raging coronavirus pandemic.

67. In early going, Biden floods the zone with decrees - Friday, January 29, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Modern American presidents have found that a good way to get off to a fast start in office is to issue decrees like an ancient king.

With a pen as their scepter, they "hereby proclaim." They "order," "direct," "revoke" and "declare," rendering commandments in regal language drawn from the deep past. President Joe Biden is flooding the zone with them, achieving head-snapping changes in national policy that he would have no hope of getting from Congress quickly, if at all.

68. Analysis: Biden issues call to unity that comes with urgency - Friday, January 22, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — As newly inaugurated leaders often do, President Joe Biden began his tenure with a ritual call for American unity.

But standing on the same Capitol steps where just two weeks ago rioters laid siege to the nation's democracy, Biden's words felt less like rhetorical flourishes and more like an urgent appeal to stabilize a country reeling from a spiraling pandemic, economic uncertainty, racial tensions and a growing divide over truth versus lies.

69. Biden takes the helm, appeals for unity to take on crises - Friday, January 22, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, declaring that "democracy has prevailed" and summoning American resilience and unity to confront the deeply divided nation's historic confluence of crises.

70. Biden takes the helm as president: 'Democracy has prevailed' - Friday, January 15, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that "democracy has prevailed" and summoning American resilience and unity to confront the deeply divided nation's historic confluence of crises.

71. Analysis: For Biden, chance to turn crisis into opportunity - Friday, January 15, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the 11 weeks since Election Day, the collision of crises confronting President-elect Joe Biden have gone from staggering to almost unimaginable.

More than 170,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 during that stretch alone, sending total U.S. deaths soaring past 400,000. The deep partisan divisions roiling the nation boiled over into violence during the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, threatening America's long history of peaceful transitions of power and resulting in the second impeachment of the outgoing president. The economy has steadily weakened, with employers cutting 140,000 jobs just in the month of December.

72. Biden has set sky-high expectations. Can he meet them? - Friday, January 15, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Back when the election was tightening and just a week away, Joe Biden went big.

He flew to Warm Springs, the Georgia town whose thermal waters once brought Franklin Delano Roosevelt comfort from polio, and pledged a restitching of America's economic and policy fabric unseen since FDR's New Deal.

73. Biden adjusting agenda to reflect narrow divide in Congress - Friday, December 4, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is adjusting the scope of his agenda to meet the challenges of governing with a narrowly divided Congress and the complications of legislating during a raging pandemic.

74. Washington Supreme Court: Farmworkers to get overtime pay - Friday, November 6, 2020

SEATTLE (AP) — A divided Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday the state's dairy workers are entitled to overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours a week, a decision expected to apply to the rest of the agriculture industry.

75. Biden goes on offense in Georgia while Trump targets Midwest - Friday, October 23, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — One week until Election Day, Joe Biden is going on offense, heading Tuesday to Georgia — which hasn't backed a Democrat for president since 1992 — and pushing into other territory where President Donald Trump was once expected to easily repeat his wins from four years ago.

76. State museum displaying Cordell Hull's Nobel Peace Prize - Friday, October 9, 2020

NASHVILLE (AP) — The Tennessee State Museum is displaying Cordell Hull's Nobel Peace Prize medal to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.

Starting Tuesday until Oct. 25, the museum will display the 1945 award won by the man Franklin Delano Roosevelt called "The Father of the United Nations."

77. AP FACT CHECK: False claims swamp first Trump-Biden debate - Friday, September 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabrications and fear-mongering in a belligerent debate with Joe Biden, at one point claiming the U.S. death toll would have been 10 times higher under the Democrat because he wanted open borders in the pandemic. Biden preached no such thing.

78. AP FACT CHECK: Trump's dubious claims on health care, court - Friday, September 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump isn't providing all the facts when he promises that people with preexisting medical problems will always be covered by health insurance if "Obamacare" is ruled unconstitutional.

79. AP FACT CHECK: Trump's untruths on court pick, Biden's flubs - Friday, September 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his Senate allies are misrepresenting the facts about Supreme Court nominations as he prepares to push ahead with a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

80. Progressives pledge to keep pushing Biden to expand court - Friday, September 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Since Joe Biden ran away with the Democratic presidential nomination in March, leading progressives have accepted him — sometimes grudgingly — as their party's leader. But, in the final weeks of the campaign, the Supreme Court vacancy is threatening to inflame old divides.

81. AP FACT CHECK: Trump's untruths on court pick, Biden's flubs - Friday, September 18, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his Senate allies are misrepresenting the facts about Supreme Court nominations as he prepares to push ahead with a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

82. Some Dems, not yet Biden, talk of expanding Supreme Court - Friday, September 18, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The prospect that President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans will fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat before the year is out has ignited a call for major changes on the court, including expanding the number of justices.

83. AP Analysis: Trump bets presidency on 'law and order' theme - Friday, August 28, 2020

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — After struggling for much of the year to settle on a clear and concise reelection message, President Donald Trump appears to have found his 2020 rallying cry.

Four years ago, it was "Build the Wall," a simple yet coded mantra to white America that nonwhite outsiders threatened their way of life. This week, Trump has re-centered his campaign on another three-word phrase that carries a similar racial dynamic: "Law and Order."

84. Trump's convention blurs official business, politics - Friday, August 21, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Plenty of presidents have walked right up to the line separating official business from politics — or even stepped over it. President Donald Trump has blown past it with a bulldozer, and his planned Republican convention speech from the White House lawn this week might be the latest and most blatant example yet.

85. Cognitive Test. Trump. Biden. Campaign. Flashpoint. - Friday, July 24, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — It doesn't quite have the ring of "Morning in America" and "I Like Ike."

But the phrase "Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV." is getting an unlikely moment in the spotlight as President Donald Trump has taken a detour into the politics of dementia three months before the election.

86. UK firms slash jobs to cope with outbreak's long-term impact - Friday, June 26, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Companies linked to hospitality and travel in Britain have announced thousands of more job cuts as the longer term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic take hold, choosing to slim down for survival rather than await potential government handouts.

87. US unemployment surges to a Depression-era level of 14.7% - Friday, May 8, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus crisis has sent the U.S. unemployment rate surging to 14.7%, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt was assuring Americans that the only thing to fear was fear itself.

88. Virus-afflicted 2020 looks like 1918 despite science's march - Friday, May 1, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a century's progress in science, 2020 is looking a lot like 1918.

In the years between two lethal pandemics, one the misnamed Spanish flu, the other COVID-19, the world learned about viruses, cured various diseases, made effective vaccines, developed instant communications and created elaborate public-health networks.

89. Virus exposes US inequality. Will it spur lasting remedies? - Friday, April 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sick who still go to work because they have no paid leave.

Families who face ruin from even a temporary layoff.

Front-line workers risking infection as they drive buses, bag takeout meals and mop hospital floors.

90. States largely have authority over when to shut down, reopen - Friday, April 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has shown no reluctance to use his White House perch to commend and criticize governors over steps they've taken to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But one thing Trump can't do, despite his assertion to the contrary on Monday, is command them to ease restrictions  they imposed because of the virus outbreak. The Constitution largely gives states the authority to regulate their own affairs.

91. TVA board backs CEO under Trump's fire for pay - Friday, April 10, 2020

CHATTANOOGA (AP) — The board of a federal utility is criticizing "ill-informed opinions" about how much their organization's top executive gets paid after President Donald Trump blasted the pay scale as "ridiculous."

92. Trump sees limits of presidency in avoiding blame for virus - Friday, April 3, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is confronting the most dangerous crisis a U.S. leader has faced this century as the coronavirus spreads and a once-vibrant economy falters. As the turmoil deepens, the choices he makes in the critical weeks ahead will shape his reelection prospects, his legacy and the character of the nation.

93. Buddy, can you spare a dime? Echoes of '30s in viral crisis? - Friday, March 20, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The imagery floats in sepia-colored photographs, faintly recalled images of bedraggled people lined up for bread or soup. Shacks in Appalachian hollows. Ruined investors taking their lives in the face of stock market crashes. Desperation etched on the faces of a generation that would soon face a world war.

94. Anne Cox Chambers, wealthy newspaper heiress, dies at 100 - Friday, January 31, 2020

ATLANTA (AP) — Anne Cox Chambers, a newspaper heiress, diplomat and philanthropist who was one of the country's richest women, died Friday at the age of 100.

Her nephew James Cox Kennedy announced her death to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, her company's flagship newspaper.

95. Experts on Dershowitz's impeachment defense: Quid pro whoa - Friday, January 31, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Dershowitz delivered a stunning defense of President Donald Trump in the Senate that would essentially make it impossible to impeach a president for anything he might do to boost his reelection prospects. It was a contention quickly and forcefully denounced by a range of legal scholars and historians who said there were clear limits on presidential authority.

96. Former Gov. Dunn objects to building honoring him - Friday, January 10, 2020

NASHVILLE (AP) — A former Tennessee governor told a newspaper that he doesn't feel qualified for the honor of having the state's legislative office building renamed for him.

Republican former Gov. Winfield Dunn said he has reservations about state Rep. Ron Gant's efforts to rename Nashville's Cordell Hull Office Building in his honor, The Daily Memphian reported Monday. The 92-year-old politician emphasized he still "deeply" appreciates Gant's consideration, he told the newspaper.

97. Former Gov. Dunn objects to building honoring him - Friday, January 3, 2020

NASHVILLE (AP) — A former Tennessee governor told a newspaper that he doesn't feel qualified for the honor of having the state's legislative office building renamed for him.

Republican former Gov. Winfield Dunn said he has reservations about state Rep. Ron Gant's efforts to rename Nashville's Cordell Hull Office Building in his honor, The Daily Memphian reported Monday. The 92-year-old politician emphasized he still "deeply" appreciates Gant's consideration, he told the newspaper.

98. AP FACT CHECK: Trump's flawed impeachment letter to Pelosi - Friday, December 20, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — The closing passage in President Donald Trump's impeachment-eve letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the ring of truth to it. He was writing his thoughts for history, he said. For 100 years from now, "when people look back at this affair."

99. Lawmaker seeks to rename building honoring Nobel winner - Friday, November 22, 2019

NASHVILLE (AP) — A Tennessee lawmaker wants to change the name of the state's legislative office building from that of a Democratic Nobel laureate to a Republican one-term governor.

The Cordell Hull Building honors a Tennessean who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his work establishing the United Nations. Hull served in the U.S. House and Senate and was the longest serving U.S. Secretary of State, serving under Franklin Roosevelt for 11 years.

100. Warren health plan departs from US 'social insurance' idea - Friday, November 8, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan to pay for "Medicare for All" without raising taxes on the middle class departs from how the U.S. has traditionally financed bedrock social insurance programs. That might impact its political viability now and in the future.