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Jill Biden is launching President Joe Biden's outreach to veterans and military families during a campaign swing through battleground states, drawing contrasts with her husband's Republican rival as the Biden team works to shift the conversation away from growing calls for the Democratic incumbent to drop his reelection bid after a damaging debate performance against Donald Trump. The first lady was to announce the formation of Veterans and Military Families for Biden-Harris during stops Monday in Wilmington, North Carolina; Tampa, Florida; and Columbus, Georgia. The states have large populations of veterans and military families. Her daylong tour is part of the Biden campaign's broader effort to rebound from the president's halting performance against Trump in last month's debate, which led a handful of House Democrats and others to call on Biden to end his campaign because they no longer believe the 81-year-old president is mentally and physically capable of defeating Trump in November's election.

Georgia State professor Moraima “Mo” Ivory is known for bringing celebrities like Steve Harvey and Ludacris into her law class

U.S. officials say a new study provides reassurance that pasteurization kills bird flu virus in cow’s milk

India has rejected a comment by the UN's top human rights official on foreign influence laws, saying principles of «transparency and accountability cannot be applied selectively.» India's Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva Ambassador Arindam Bagchi, said he «humbly disagrees» with the brief reference to India made by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk in his Global Update 56th session of the Human Rights Council this week. Turk had said in his global update that a «worrying trend in terms of civic space is the consideration or adoption of so-called „transparency“ or „foreign influence“ laws in over 50 countries, including in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, India, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Slovakia and Turkiye. These laws risk having serious chilling effects on the work of civil society, freedom of expression and of association.»

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has conducted a survey of 19 countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, exploring the adoption and potentials of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

Joe Biden drop out of the 2024 US Presidential Election? This question is looming large over the party and the political system of the country as he has slipped to the all-time low rating of 37.4%. Pollster Nate Silver has said that «Biden just hit a new all-time low in approval.» He took to the social media platform X to write that dropping out would be a big risk, but there’s some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk.

Scottie Scheffler was arrested after police say he dragged an officer while trying to get around the scene of a fatal accident Friday ahead of the second round of the PGA Championship. The 27-year-old Scheffler, the world's No. 1-ranked golfer, was attempting to get to Valhalla Golf Club outside Louisville, Kentucky, around 6 a.m. when police say he illegally bypassed the scene of an accident where a pedestrian was killed. Scheffler was charged with multiple counts, including second-degree assault of a police officer and reckless driving. He was booked and had his mugshot taken before being released. Scheffler has called the chain of events a «big misunderstanding.»

Swing-state voters are open to several ideas to keep Social Security benefits flowing for decades — as long as it’s the wealthy footing the bill, according to the latest Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll.

Rebates tied to home energy efficiency and created by the Inflation Reduction Act may start flowing to many consumers within months.  

Whether it's a bold azalea print on a black polo shirt or a striking vest adorned with huge block letters, the gear players are wearing at the Masters this year has made it quite clear that Augusta National is fast becoming the center of the golf fashi...

Gnomes, those quirky statues people often have in their gardens, are flying off the shelves at Augusta National

Editor’s note (March 18th 2024): This article has been updated to take in the latest developments. Running for the American presidency is a full-time job. “There was essentially no day or night" from the first presidential debate in September 1976 to election day, griped James Fallows, now a journalist, who worked on Jimmy Carter’s campaign. Donald Trump, now sure of the Republican Party’s nomination for this year’s election, will have to combine that gruelling endeavour with his role as a defendant in four criminal trials.

AUGUSTA, Ga.—Tiger Woods has faced a never-ending series of injuries, surgeries and setbacks that have threatened his golf career. But he has made it back each time, even after long layoffs and doubts—including from Woods himself—that he would play competitively again. All those injuries have taken a physical toll, making it tough for Woods merely to walk 18 holes.

AUGUSTA, Ga.—Stewart Hagestad had a compelling reason to ask the merchant bank where he works for some time off this week: He was going to the Masters. What separates him from everyone else on Wall Street jetting down to Augusta National is that he’s not there to take in the action at the first major of the season. Hagestad is actually playing in it.

By Andrea Shalal and Nandita Bose

Vivek Taneja also died after succumbing to assault injuries in Washington. Vivek Saini, another Indian student who had recently earned an MBA degree in the US and was hammered to death by a homeless drug addict in Georgia state’s Lithonia city Last month, an Indian student, Syed Mazahir Ali, faced a brutal attack in Chicago on February 4.

'Kudlow' panelists Russ Vought and Michael Faulkender discuss the Trump administration's tax code.

Quebec’s tourism minister says demolishing Montreal’s Olympic Stadium would cost $2 billion, but that estimate is raising questions because other North American cities have torn down stadiums for hundreds of millions of dollars less.

Is the boss who’s giving you an order real or just realistic? Deepfakes are taking Zoom calls to another level of awkwardness, making us question whether our co-workers are genuine. A finance worker in Hong Kong transferred more than $25 million to scammers after they posed as his chief financial officer and other colleagues on a video conference call, marking perhaps the biggest known corporate fraud using deepfake technology to date. The worker had been suspicious about an email requesting a secret transaction, but the scammers looked and sounded so convincing on the call that he sent the money.

The good news is the probability of a recession is down sharply, according to The Wall Street Journal’s latest survey of economists. The bad news is that, for a lot of people, it is still going to feel like a recession. Business and academic economists surveyed by the Journal lowered the probability of a recession within the next year, to 39% from 48% in the October survey.

By Tim Reid, Nathan Layne and James Oliphant