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Homeless individuals sleep near a National Guard truck ahead of the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

HUD: Growth Of Homelessness During 2020 Was 'Devastating,' Even Before The Pandemic

The annual homeless count by the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows an increase in people living outside. The 2020 numbers in the report do not reflect the impact of the pandemic.

Biden, Harris To Visit Atlanta After Shooting Kills 8, Including 6 Asian Women

President Biden and Vice President Harris are heading to Atlanta as pressure grows on police to file hate crime charges in the killings of 6 women of Asian descent.

A paramilitary police officer talks next to a screen showing frontier soldiers of the People's Liberation Army during an event at a primary school in Wuzhishan, Hainan province, China, on Feb. 22. On the screen are (L-R) Qi Fabao, who was seriously wounded in the border clash with Indian troops in June last year, and four who were killed: Chen Hongjun, Chen Xiangrong, Xiao Siyuan and Wang Zhuoran.

China Makes It A Crime To Question Military Casualties On The Internet

Weibo users face criminal charges after online comments — made in and outside China — casting doubt on the casualty number the Chinese government reported months after a brawl with Indian soldiers.

The Supreme Court hears arguments Friday in two cases challenging the Biden administration's vaccine mandates.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments challenging vaccine mandates

The two cases are in a preliminary posture, but how the court rules will very likely signal how these issues are ultimately resolved.

Senate lawmakers on Wednesday debated a set of voting rights bills.

Democrats fail to change Senate rules to overcome GOP opposition on voting rights

The push to alter the filibuster and sidestep a Republican blockade of two voting rights bills was doomed by Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

(l) Jason Veasey, James Jackson, Jr., Jaquel Spivey, L Morgan Lee and Antwayn Hopper in "A Strange Loop."

'A Strange Loop' garners 11 Tony nominations, including Best Musical

These nominations are for Broadway's first season after the 2020 COVID shutdown.

Activists are calling on lawmakers to take action on gun control reform, following a number of mass shootings across the US.

The House passes a gun control bill in response to the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings

It has almost no chance of becoming law as the Senate pursues negotiations focused on improving mental health programs, bolstering school security and enhancing background checks.

Tyrone Ferrens, a plant electrician at Under Armour, sits for a portrait in his house in Aberdeen, Md.

A Black family in Maryland navigates the pandemic and inflation with some success

Tyrone and Michelle Ferrens build some successes out of their complex story.

Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder and chief executive officer of FTX, in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.

Crypto billionaire says Fed is driving current downturn

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says that, until investors get used to higher interest rates, risk assets, including cryptocurrency, won't recover.

Simone Biles poses wearing her bronze medal from balance beam competition during artistic gymnastics at the Summer Olympics on Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo. President Biden will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Biles and 16 others at the White House next week.

Biden will award the Medal of Freedom to Biles, McCain, Giffords and others

The president will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, who also include Oscar-winning Denzel Washington, the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and soccer Olympian Megan Rapinoe.

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