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Administration Lays Out Strategy Against Islamophobia

White House says it's the first such national effort

(Newser) - The White House on Thursday announced what it called the first-ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia, detailing more than 100 steps federal officials can take to curb hate, violence, bias, and discrimination against Muslims and Arab Americans. The proposal follows a similar national plan to battle antisemitism that President Biden...

Trump's New Press Secretary Is Youngest Ever

Karoline Leavitt, 27, president-elect's campaign press secretary, will join him in the White House

(Newser) - President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, his campaign press secretary, to serve as his White House press secretary. Leavitt, 27, currently a spokesperson for Trump's transition, would be the youngest White House press secretary in history. Previously that distinction went to Ronald Ziegler, who was 29 when...

Trump Picks Steven Cheung for Communications Director

But still no word on who will be press secretary

(Newser) - President-elect Trump announced Friday that Steven Cheung, who's been a campaign spokesman, will become White House communications director. He'll also be an assistant to the president, CNN reports. Sergio Gor also will be an assistant to the president, in addition to serving as director of presidential personnel. "...

Trump in Oval Office Return: 'It Is a Nice World Today'

He meets with President Biden, as per tradition

(Newser) - Donald Trump's official return to the Oval Office won't happen until January, but the president-elect made a temporary return on Wednesday. President Biden invited the 47th US president to meet with him in a ceremonial tradition that's seen as part of a smooth and peaceful transfer of...

Trump Accepts Biden Invitation to White House

Meeting to restore courtesy skipped after 2020 election

(Newser) - President-elect Donald Trump will visit the White House on Wednesday after being invited by President Biden—a longstanding post-election courtesy that Trump did not extend four years ago. The White House said the two will meet in the Oval Office, the New York Times reports. In a speech to the...

No Matter the Outcome, US Braces for Election Turmoil
DC Braces for
Election Day Unrest
Nov 4, 2024 2:06 PM CST

DC Braces for Election Day Unrest

Meanwhile, election offices nationwide are installing bulletproof glass, running active-shooter drills

(Newser) - "No need for any alarm." That was a recent message from the chief of police in the nation's capital, assuring locals there are no current credible threats of violence around Election Day, or thereafter, that have emerged. But in DC and around the country, authorities are putting...

Replica White House Sells for $23M
Replica White House
Sells for $23M
Oct 25, 2024 7:45 AM CDT

Replica White House Sells for $23M

Hearst heir once planned to give it to the government as a 'Western White House'

(Newser) - Whoever loses the White House race in November will find that it's too late to console themselves by moving into a replica once intended to be the "Western White House." The home in Hillsborough, about 20 miles south of San Francisco, has been sold for $23 million,...

Biden to Address Nation About Trump Rally Shooting
Biden to Address Nation
Jul 14, 2024 11:50 AM CDT

Biden to Address Nation

Remarks from White House to follow law enforcement briefing of president, Harris

(Newser) - President Biden plans to speak to the nation Sunday afternoon after a Situation Room briefing about the apparent assassination attempt on his predecessor, Donald Trump. The White House says Biden will speak at 1:30pm EDT. Homeland Security and law enforcement officials briefed Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris earlier...

White House Press Briefing Paused When Woman Faints

It was hot in the room at the time

(Newser) - A scary moment occurred during the White House press briefing Thursday, when Karine Jean-Pierre had to stop the proceedings after a woman in the room fainted. The White House press secretary was in the middle of taking a reporter's question when someone shouted that there was an emergency, the...

Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama's Mother, Dies at 86

Matriarch was a 'reassuring presence' at White House during Barack Obama's tenure

(Newser) - On election night 2008, as Barack Obama sat nervously in a Chicago hotel suite and awaited news on whether he would become the country's first Black president, his mother-in-law was by his side. "Are you ready for this, Grandma?" Obama asked Marian Shields Robinson, who years earlier had...

White House Fetes Kenya With State Dinner

Lavish event was biggest of Biden's presidency

(Newser) - Thursday's White House state dinner honoring Kenyan President William Ruto offered around 500 guests stunning DC views, a knockout menu, and a dose of celebrity star power. The gathering was the first White House state dinner for an African nation since 2008, and it was the sixth and largest...

Driver Pleads Guilty in White House Crash

Sai Varshith Kandula, who brought a Nazi flag, faces 10 years in prison

(Newser) - A Missouri man who crashed a rental truck into White House barriers and showed a Nazi flag before his arrest last year pleaded guilty on Monday to damaging government property, court records show. Sai Varshith Kandula, 20, drove a U-Haul truck onto a sidewalk, sending pedestrians running for safety, before...

Driver Dies After Crashing Into White House Barrier

Police say it looks like an an accident, not terrorism

(Newser) - A driver died after a vehicle crashed into an outer perimeter gate of the White House complex Saturday night—but police say the incident is being investigated as a traffic crash, not terrorism. President Biden was spending the weekend in Delaware, and the Secret Service said there was no threat...

Biden's Strolls to Marine One Are a Bit Different These Days
Biden's Strolls to
Marine One Are
a Bit Different
These Days
in case you missed it
Apr 28, 2024 11:55 AM CDT

Biden's Strolls to Marine One Are a Bit Different These Days

Axios reports president now walks on South Lawn with aides around him, to distract from his gait

(Newser) - Conservative outlets closely follow President Biden's every move , seeking signs to show the commander in chief's age in a negative light. There now seems to be a new strategy by the Biden camp for dealing with that: Don't let him walk to Marine One alone. The president...

Biden: Support for Japan, Philippines Is 'Ironclad'

China's actions at sea have caused growing concern

(Newser) - President Biden reinforced the US defense commitment to Pacific allies on Thursday as he gathered Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House. The meeting took place against a backdrop of growing concern about provocative Chinese military action in the Indo-Pacific, the AP...

Muslim Leaders Aren't Having White House's Ramadan Invite

Reps from Muslim community turn iftar dinner down, choose policy talk over Israel's war in Gaza

(Newser) - Muslim leaders met Tuesday evening with President Biden and Vice President Harris, but it wasn't the event that the White House had originally planned. The Washington Post reports that a half-dozen or so representatives from the Muslim community were originally invited for an iftar dinner, the meal that Muslims...

Get Ready to Set Your Clocks for Moon Time

White House instructs NASA to figure out a unified standard of time to aid future missions

(Newser) - In the future, we'll have Earth time and we'll have Moon time. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Tuesday directed NASA to establish what it called Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), "a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies"...

Latest Swatting Victim: the White House

DC Fire spokesperson says fake call was in 'same spirit' as recent 'swatting' incidents

(Newser) - A fake 911 call that the White House was on fire sent emergency vehicles to the complex Monday morning, when President Biden and his family were at Camp David. Fire engines and other emergency vehicles responded to a report just after 7am that the White House was ablaze and a...

Ex-Pentagon Chief Panetta on Austin Incident: 'Serious Risk'

Defense secretary's secrecy over hospitalization, subject of a formal inquiry, remains in the spotlight

(Newser) - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is continuing to work from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on what's now the 11th day of his current hospitalization. Meanwhile, a storm continues to brew over the failure of the secretary, second in the line of military command, to notify officials that he...

White House Seeks to Prevent Repeat of Austin Situation

Chief of staff is reviewing procedures connected to delegation of duties

(Newser) - The White House doesn't want to have another situation where the president is unaware for days that the defense secretary or another Cabinet member is unable to perform their duties. In a memo Tuesday, White House chief of staff Jeff Zients asked all Cabinet secretaries to "submit your...

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