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An unusually tense and awkward moment developed during a White House press briefing on Monday when a reporter loudly interrupted the flow of the proceedings to criticize White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The reporter, Simon Ateba, loudly and repeatedly complained that he was being unfairly treated. His objections earned him angry disapproval from his… Continue reading Black Reporter Gets Stern Talking To For Interrupting White House Press Briefing

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged a question on a Chinese company issuing payments to the Biden family, claiming it was “lies and inaccuracy."

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to respond to questioning about payments House Republicans say the Biden received from a Chinese company.

A nearly six-hour grilling of TikTok’s CEO by lawmakers brought the platform’s 150 million U.S. users no closer to an answer as to whether the app will be wiped from their devices.

By Stacy M. Brown,NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMediaThe State of the Black Press in America in 2023 is strong, resilient, and getting stronger day by day. Black Press Week culminated with National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., delivering the State of the Black Press. Mark Thompson, NNPA Chair Karen Carter Richards, and other NNPA Board members presented Thompson with the 2023 NNPA Global Newsmaker of the Year Award. During his address, Dr. Chavis unveiled the new NNPA World News app, which contains global news items of interest to African Americans. He declared that the NNPA would soon travel around the country for a series of Black Church, Black Press, and Black family revivals.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre avoided saying whether Biden supports reparations for slavery, as San Francisco seek to grant each eligible Black resident $5 million.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre laughed at a reporter's question about whether it's "appropriate" for former President Trump to run for office if he is indicted.

During the White House briefing on Tuesday, Yahoo News Senior White House Correspondent Alex Nazaryan asked press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about local efforts to pay reparations to African Americans for slavery and segregation. Jean-Pierre touted the Biden administration’s focus on racial equity across the federal government, but wouldn’t comment specifically about reparations legislation.

'Fox Across America' host Jimmy Failla and Fox News contributor Joe Concha roasted the Biden administration's lack of transparency on Fox News Tuesday.

Today News Africa White House correspondent Simon Ateba explains why he confronted White House Karine Jean-Pierre for not calling on him on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'

Actor Jason Sudeikis and cast members of the show "Ted Lasso" visited the White House visit to encourage people to check in with friends, family and colleagues to "ask how they're doing."

The White House/YouTubeSimon Ateba once again made the White House press briefing all about his perceived grievances on Monday.A notorious gadfly who claims he’s been removed from the White House Correspondent’s Association, the Today News Africa reporter had one of his trademarked public meltdowns—this time in front of the Ted Lasso cast.With Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, and other stars of the hit show joining White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at the podium, Ateba began berat

White House Correspondent Simon Ateba went on a lengthy rant accusing Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre of making a 'mockery' of the First Amendment.

Fictional soccer coach Ted Lasso has used a White House visit to encourage people to make it a point to check in often with friends, family and co-workers to ask how they're doing and to listen.

President Biden did not take questions from reporters after a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, despite the White House earlier insisting that he would answer press questions.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was peppered by reporters after she claimed they would have the opportunity to ask President Biden questions during an upcoming meeting.

President Joe Biden has made fighting climate change a core part of his agenda.

Twitter users mocked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for uttering a "40 second" long "word salad" about Joe Biden's border policy.

The White House beefed up its attacks on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Friday, calling his “despicable” efforts to dismantle far-left ideology a rallying call for anti-transgender bigotry.

The group called for the rollback of President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan and the cancellation of several climate change projects, among other cuts.

Today News Africa reporter Simon Ateba told Tucker Carlson he's being booted from the White House Correspondents Association as punishment for being a "real journalist."

The White House says President Joe Biden will visit Canada for the first time since taking office.

President Joe Biden's new budget proposal aims to increase taxes on the wealthy and steer more money to popular programs such as Medicare.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reacted Wednesday to a question on tennis superstar Novak Djokovic and his COVID vaccination status.

President Joe Biden chose a union training center in Philadelphia to lay out his new 10-year budget proposal and challenge congressional Republicans to release their own spending blueprint.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has refused for the third briefing in a row to give clarification on President Biden's plans regarding the Chinese-owned app TikTok.

“Outnumbered” co-host Kayleigh McEnany responds after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed “fentanyl at the border” has dropped to historic lows.

Karine Jean-Pierre defended the president's track record on the border, shortly after Americans were caught in the crossfire of Mexican gang violence.

The U.S. government, prompted by Ukraine's use of commercial satellites, is developing policies on how the military would respond should a hostile country attack a private satellite in space.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mocked spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson's presidential campaign on Monday with "crystal ball" and "aura" jokes.

President’s opposition is part of a tough-on-crime sentiment that is increasingly shaping the political landscape

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lashed out at Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee over a new law restricting drag shows in public and near schools.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday that while President Biden remains open to visiting East Palestine, they have yet to confirm a trip.

The White House on Friday faced tough questions after President Biden announced he would not veto a congressional resolution blocking Washington, D.C.'s revised criminal code.

'The Five' co-hosts react to President Biden's remarks after he appeared to chuckle at the story of a mother who lost her two sons to an accidental fentanyl overdose.

The White House said President Biden's laugh while discussing the fentanyl crisis Wednesday night was taken out of context as the president himself has experienced personal loss.

President Joe Biden finally stated that he will visit the East Palestine, Ohio, town where a freight train derailment caused hazardous chemicals to be released into the open air.

The White House spokeswoman appeared in an MSNBC interview where she repeated debunked narratives about Republicans and claimed that Biden's economy is measurably successful.

Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated she had no "plan" to read Governor Ron DeSantis's (R., Fl.) opinion piece in which he defended recent legislation removing Disney's favorable tax status in Florida.

The White House addressed concerns about TikTok and spoke about a bipartisan plan to act against the social media platform, though they would not say if the app would be banned.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took aim at congressional Republicans on Wednesday, accusing them of defunding the police.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre avoided a question about Lori Lightfoot's loss in the Chicago mayoral election and appeared to blame Republicans for rising crime.

Both Democrats and Republicans are preparing for a prolonged political battle over student debt relief if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects President Joe Biden's plan to forgive federal loans.

Biden is trying to draw a contrast of health care priorities with the Republicans in Virginia. The administration claims GOP plans will raise health care prices.

First lady Jill Biden on Friday said that President Biden is "pretty much" prepared to announce his intention to seek re-election.

President Joe Biden will aim to draw a contrast between his health care priorities and those of congressional Republicans at a Virginia event next week in advance of his 2024 budget proposals. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden would use the Virginia Beach event Tuesday to criticize Republicans for demanding concessions for raising the nation's borrowing limit, while tying the GOP to policy proposals that he says would raise health care prices.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced criticism Thursday after she said President Biden will prioritize diversity when selecting a Fed Vice Chair nominee.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced on Wednesday that two staffers are simultaneously departing the White House Press Office.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre accidentally referred to Elaine Chao as the former head of the EPA while defending Pete Buttigieg Thursday.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefly forgot who what serving in the White House on Thursday, referring to President Biden as "President Obama."

Conservatives attach the term to a host of policies they oppose, from transgender rights to climate change measures to socially responsible investing.

This Week in Outer Space covers UFO mania, black holes, a meteor over France, and a partially solved space laser mystery.

The White House rebuked Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin this week for supporting state lawmakers' rejection of a bill that that would have prohibited police from issuing search warrants for digitized data about women’s menstrual cycles. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Friday that the Republican governor's push to block the bill at a time when abortion access is diminishing “attacks the principles of freedom and a woman’s fundamental right to privacy," the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Virginia’s Democrat-controlled state Senate had passed the bill 31-9, with nine Republicans joining Democrats to send it to the House, where Republicans hold a majority.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joked about CNN's Don Lemon's controversial comments about women to John Kirby saying, "Neither of us have hit our prime yet."

The White House refused to back down on their attacks on the GOP over Social Security and Medicare even after Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., explicitly changed his plan to leave those programs alone.

President Joe Biden is hosting a screening Thursday of the movie “Till,” about the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.

The remarks came after days of mounting pressure from Congress, which wants to hear exactly what the administration knew about the spy balloon.

President Joe Biden says the U.S. is developing “sharper rules” to track, monitor and potentially shoot down unknown aerial objects.

The downing of three unknown aerial objects in as many days by U.S. fighter jets has prompted wild speculation about what they were and where they came from.

President Joe Biden is not, in fact, scheduled to give an interview to a Fox Corp. streaming service before the Super Bowl on Sunday, according to a White House official.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have left a meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with an agreement on how to address the issue of policing in America after the recent killing of Tyre Nichols.

The White House has announced that President Joe Biden will host Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for meetings on Feb. 10.

Gov. Tim Walz has enshrined the right to abortion and other reproductive health care into Minnesota statutes.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and top aides to President Joe Biden have met in Washington to discuss electric vehicles.

For the second time this month, House Republicans have advanced a measure to restrict presidential use of the nation’s emergency oil stockpile — a proposal that has already drawn a White House veto threat.

President Joe Biden called on lawmakers Tuesday to act quickly and deliver gun reform legislation in the wake of the mass shootings in California.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says in a letter to congressional leaders that she's suspending the reinvestment of federal bonds in a government workers’ savings plan.

Vice President Kamala Harris is rallying supporters against efforts in Washington and in Republican-led states to restrict abortion on what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe vs.

The White House says President Joe Biden “looks forward” to sitting down with new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to discuss a range of topics, including perhaps the thorniest challenge confronting Washington this year: raising the nation’s debt limit.

President Joe Biden says there is “no there there” following the discovery of classified documents and official records at his home and former office.

When Hillary Clinton was running for president in 2016, she and her campaign called the FBI’s scrutiny of her private email server a “security review.”.

The Treasury Department says it has started taking “extraordinary measures” as the government has run up against its legal borrowing capacity of $31.381 trillion.

New details about the investigation into classified documents found at President Joe Biden’s former office and home from his time as Vice President were revealed Tuesday after the Department of Justice considered sending FBI agents to monitor the search for classified material.

The federal government is on track to max out on its $31.4 trillion borrowing authority as soon as this month.

After an epic 15-ballot election to become House speaker, Republican Kevin McCarthy faces his next big test in governing a fractious, slim majority.

President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House later this month for economic and security consultations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has paid a defiant wartime visit to Washington to thank U.S. leaders and “ordinary Americans” for their support in fighting off Russia’s invasion.

Vice President Kamala Harris' husband has visited 988 call center that's part of the recently launched national hotline intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency.

Congress will likely have to fund the government for one week to avoid a partial government shutdown.

Amid a surge in hateful rhetoric and violence, President Joe Biden has formed an new interagency group to develop a national strategy to combat antisemitism.

President Joe Biden is set to play host to dozens of African leaders in Washington this week as the White House looks to narrow a gaping trust gap with Africa.

The one-for-one swap involving Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout was not the one that U.S. officials had hoped to negotiate or were initially willing to accept.

President Joe Biden has signed legislation curbing the use of confidentiality agreements that block victims of sexual harassment from speaking publicly about misconduct in the workplace.

The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military would be rescinded under the annual defense bill heading for a vote this week in Congress.

President Joe Biden made phone calls with fellow Democrats Friday for Sen. Raphael Warnock’s runoff election, delivering hot coffee to volunteers, too, and thanking them for their work.

Presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron have vowed to maintain a united front against Russia amid growing worries about waning support for Ukraine in the U.S. and Europe.

Some state attorneys general aren’t shaking off this week’s Ticketmaster debacle.

President Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden married her fiance, Peter Neal, on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday.

Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president’s son.

President Joe Biden’s plan to provide up to $20,000 in federal student loan forgiveness has been blocked by two federal courts.

The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection has resigned from his job leading the nation’s largest law enforcement agency as agents encounter record numbers of migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico.

The Biden administration is no longer accepting applications for student loan forgiveness after a second federal court shut down the program.

President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness has been blocked by a second federal court, leaving millions of borrowers wondering if they’ll get debt relief at all.

A U.S. judge in Texas has blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness.

President Joe Biden will meet Monday with China's President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next week’s Group of 20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia.

President Joe Biden says he hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin will be more willing to negotiate the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner now that the U.S. midterm elections are over.

President Joe Biden is set to deliver remarks about the midterm election later Wednesday as Democrats showed surprising strength against Republicans in Tuesday's races.

President Joe Biden has notched an envious record on jobs, with 10.3 million gained during his tenure.

President Joe Biden says he hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin will be more willing to negotiate the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner now that the U.S. midterm elections are over.