Bernadette Carey Smith, who in the 1960s was one of the first Black women to be hired as a reporter at The New York Times and The Washington Post, died on Dec. 5 at an assisted living complex in Tuckahoe, N.Y. She was 83. Her nephew Scott Taylor said the cause was arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.…
WASHINGTON — In 1915, Woodrow Wilson gathered a small crowd in the East Room of the White House to show “The Birth of a Nation,” a film celebrating the Ku Klux Klan. More than a century later, in the same room, President Biden on Thursday convened families of people killed in hate crimes for a screening of…
The Biden administration extended the years-long pause on federal student loan payments on Tuesday after Republican legal challenges temporarily halted President Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in debt for millions of borrowers. “Republican special interests and elected officials sued to deny this relief even for their own constituents,” President Biden said in a…
WASHINGTON — One day after President Biden issued an executive order designed to ensure access to abortion medication and emergency contraception, more than a thousand protesters gathered in front of the White House, with hundreds risking arrest by sitting at the building’s gates, to urge Mr. Biden to do more. Despite rainy weather and the…
Former Vice President Mike Pence has emerged from the Jan. 6 hearings in a peculiar position. To some Democrats in Congress, he has become something of a hero for resisting Donald J. Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election at a time when American democracy seemed to teeter on the brink. To Mr. Trump…
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s top aides are weighing whether he can or should take a series of executive actions to help women in Republican-controlled states obtain abortions if the Supreme Court eliminates a woman’s right to end her pregnancy, according to senior administration officials. Some of the ideas under consideration include declaring a national public…