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This combination of photos shows actors, from left, Michael Cerveris, Victor Garber and Steven Pasquale, who will participate in the dark musical “Assassins," for a streaming fundraising event. Cast members of the show’s 1990 world premiere will join with the 2004 Tony-winning revival, as well as the cast of the upcoming Classic Stage Company production for an hour-long filmed program on April 15 that mixes memories and music, exploring the show from the actors' points of view. (AP Photo)
Classic Stage Company has a treat: Three 'Assassins' casts

By Mark Kennedy Apr. 07, 2021 11:07 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 1963, file photo President Richard Nixon speaks during first news conference as president in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo, File)
Biden readies for 1st news conference, White House tradition

By Calvin Woodward Mar. 24, 2021 12:10 AM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Feb. 19, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Friday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2021. There are 315 days left in the year. Today’s...

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, meets with business leaders to discuss a coronavirus relief package in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Biden thinks impeachment video may have swayed `some minds'

By Jonathan Lemire And Alexandra Jaffe Feb. 11, 2021 12:18 AM EST

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, meets with business leaders to discuss a coronavirus relief package in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Did someone say impeachment? Biden avoids wading into debate

By Jonathan Lemire And Alexandra Jaffe Feb. 10, 2021 03:03 PM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 1978, file photo, President Jimmy Carter listens to Sen. Joseph R. Biden, D-Del., as they wait to speak at fund raising reception at Padua Academy in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)
At 78 and the oldest president, Biden sees a world changed

By Bill Barrow Jan. 23, 2021 07:55 AM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2018, file photo former President George W. Bush, center, leans in to talk to former Vice President Dick Cheney, as he walks out with from left, former first lady Laura Bush, former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, after attending the memorial service for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at Washington National Cathedral in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Trump shuns 'ex-presidents club' — and the feeling is mutual

By Will Weissert And Deb Riechmann Jan. 23, 2021 12:38 AM EST

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, Republican Conference chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Impeachment could become defining moment for Liz Cheney

By Will Weissert Jan. 13, 2021 04:10 PM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2021, file photo President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. When Biden takes office later this month, his biggest challenge may be navigating a deeply divided country past the turmoil of the Trump era. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Biden faces challenge in guiding America past Trump era

By Alexandra Jaffe Jan. 11, 2021 12:20 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: West Virginia

By The Associated Press Dec. 23, 2020 01:49 PM EST
Recent editorials from West Virginia newspapers: ___ Dec. 22 The Journal on banning “no-knock”...

FILE - In this July 19, 2020, file photo, people gather at a makeshift memorial near the home of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in Atlanta. Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists who organized the 1963 March on Washington, and spoke shortly before the group's leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to a vast sea of people. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020

By Bernard Mcghee Dec. 07, 2020 12:13 PM EST

In this Nov. 3, 2020, photo, voters wait in line outside a polling center on Election Day, in Kenosha, Wis. President-elect Joe Biden shored up the Democrats' “blue wall,” — more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to rebuild the party's path back to the White House. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
Biden shores up fragile 'blue wall' in industrial north

By Thomas Beaumont Nov. 08, 2020 10:26 AM EST

FILE - This July 26, 2017, file photo shows Peter Secchia speaking to the media in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. Secchia, a successful Michigan businessman and philanthropist who counted Republican presidents as friends, died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020 at age 83. (Neil Blake/The Grand Rapids Press via AP, File)
Peter Secchia, businessman and philanthropist, dies at 83

Oct. 21, 2020 03:21 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Sep. 30, 2020 03:48 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 30 The San Francisco...

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press Sep. 09, 2020 04:05 PM EDT
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York’s newspapers: Give Money to Babies New York Time ...

FILE - In this March 11, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. For only the second time as president, Trump addressed the nation in a formal Oval Office speech on March 11. The U.S., he told Americans, would “expeditiously defeat this virus. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
The bully pulpit: Trump pushes Washington, but virus resists

By Jonathan Lemire And Aamer Madhani Aug. 22, 2020 10:40 AM EDT

DELETES REFERENCE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS - Attendees sit apart while listening to U.S. Attorney General William Barr speak at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday, July 16, 2020. (Nicole Hester/Mlive.com/Ann Arbor News via AP)
Barr says US now overly reliant on Chinese goods, services

By Eric Tucker Jul. 16, 2020 12:53 PM EDT

President Donald Trump looks at a smartphone while sitting aboard Marine One as it lands on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 10, 2020, after a trip to Florida. Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone on Friday, just days before Stone was set to report to prison. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Trump's defiant help for Stone adds to tumult in Washington

By Jonathan Lemire Jul. 11, 2020 03:21 PM EDT

Pedestrians walk past the English Bros Funeral Home as a casket is unloaded in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sunday, April 19, 2020. New York's daily toll of coronavirus deaths has hit its lowest point in more than two weeks, but officials still warn that New York City and the rest of the state aren't ready to ease up on shutdowns of schools, businesses and gatherings. Mayor Bill de Blasio warned Sunday that with the arrival of spring weather, the city will step up enforcement of social distancing rules. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Coronavirus deaths down in NY, but officials urge vigilance

Apr. 19, 2020 09:36 AM EDT

Three nuns look at the coffin of Inmaculada Louzan, a sister of Nazareth who died at age 80 of coronavirus related complications, during her burial at the Poble Nou cemetery in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, April 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
The Latest: Positive tests at Afghan presidential palace

By The Associated Press Apr. 19, 2020 01:25 AM EDT