Jacqueline Avant helped unite the worlds of Black entertainment, sports and politics. One friend called her "the queen of the people."

Tate Myre, Hana St. Juliana, and Madisyn Baldwin died Tuesday after a shooting at Oxford High School. A fourth person, Justin Shilling, died Wednesday.

Vice President Kamala Harris' chief spokesperson and senior adviser Symone Sanders is leaving the Biden administration at the end of the year, according to a source familiar with the decision.

Jason Mumpower said his office "can no longer find that compliance" with the state law "would result in a loss of federal funding," thus halting exemptions.

In a new account of his time as Donald Trump’s fourth and final chief of staff, former Freedom Caucus Rep. Mark Meadows writes that the 74-year-old commander in chief would have beaten up protesters himself if Secret Service agents hadn’t made him...