With details from Tuesday’s bridge collapse in Baltimore still emerging‚ President Joe Biden said the federal government should do all it can to help rebuild the span and reopen the city's port. And there is relatively recent history of how such an approach could work on Capitol Hill‚ even if the situations are different in important ways.

Stock in Donald Trump’s social-media company surged in its Nasdaq debut on Tuesday‚ sending the former president’s on-paper net worth soaring. The Trump Media &; Technology Group‚ the owner of Truth Social‚ began trading under the stock ticker “DJT” Tuesday morning and increased by more than 30 percent by midday‚ up to nearly $70 per share. The company completed its $300 million merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp on Monday and TMTG replaced Digital World on the...

Trump's social media venture soared as much as 59% in its trading debut on Tuesday delivering a potential windfall of billions of dollars to the former president's net worth. Trading in Trump Media and Technology Group‚ the company behind the Truth Social app‚ was so frantic that it was briefly halted at one point. It's trading under the stock symbol DJT‚ or short for Donald J. Trump. The surge in shares values a company that had just over $3 million in sales and lost nearly $50 million...

Shares of Donald Trump’s social-media company surged about 30% on their first day of trading‚ boosting the presidential candidate’s fortune. The question is‚ how soon can he tap his roughly $5 billion stake in Truth Social? That is up to the board of Truth Social’s parent company. The group includes his son‚ three former members of his administration and the former congressman who took a leading role in defending the former president in his first impeachment trial....

The Supreme Court appeared ready to dismiss a challenge on Tuesday from opponents of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) relaxed requirements for dispensing an abortion drug‚ used to terminate nearly two-thirds of abortions in the country. That would be a victory for the Biden administration and abortion rights supporters‚ by keeping current rules in place and allowing access in most of the country to the medication. The justices heard about 90 minutes of arguments about the federal...

The Supreme Court appeared likely to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone‚ following arguments Tuesday in which justices suggested that protecting doctors who oppose abortion wasn’t enough justification to roll back access to the drug. The case is the first major abortion issue to reach the Supreme Court after it overruled Roe v. Wade two years ago‚ rescinding women’s constitutional right to end unwanted pregnancies before fetal viability the justices had recognized in 1973....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year‚ in the court’s first abortion case since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. In nearly 90 minutes of arguments‚ a consensus appeared to emerge that the abortion opponents who challenged the FDA’s approval of the medication‚ mifepristone‚ and subsequent actions to ease access to it‚ lack the legal right or standing to...

Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Tuesday that Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan will be his 2024 running mate for president. Kennedy had also been considering New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura‚ as well as several others like former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii‚ according to The New York Times. The Democrat-turned-independent revealed that Shanahan is his vice presidential pick during a speech in Oakland‚ California...

Nicole Shanahan‚ a patent attorney specializing in technology and the former wife of Google founder Sergey Brin‚ has been named Robert F. Kennedy Jr's. vice presidential running mate. "I want somebody who will look out for young people and not treat them as if they're invisible‚" Kennedy said in an interview with Newsweek. "She's just 38 years old; she comes from technology and understands social media." Kennedy made the announcement Tuesday at an event in Oakland‚ where Shanahan grew up...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that he had selected wealthy Bay Area attorney and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as his vice-presidential running mate. Shanahan‚ the 38-year-old daughter of a Chinese immigrant who grew up in Oakland‚ California‚ and was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin‚ is a major Kennedy backer. She gave $4 million to a pro-Kennedy super PAC‚ American Values 2024‚ to air the retro-style Super Bowl ad that...