U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 26, 2024. (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with President Xi Jinping of China on Friday following a meeting with Director of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central …

Travelers use Clear Plus kiosks at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, May 25, 2023. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — California lawmakers have pushed forward a new piece of legislation aimed at changing the way third-party security screening companies like CLEAR help expedite customers through security at the airport. An annual CLEAR membership that …

In this Nov. 24, 2023, file photo, a Walmart store is shown on Black Friday, in Secaucus, New Jersey. (Bloomberg via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — In an exclusive and far-reaching interview with ABC News, John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S., talked about the retail giant’s push to hire more non-college degree workers for high-paying corporate jobs at …

joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday heard historic arguments on whether former President Donald Trump can be criminally prosecuted related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. He denies all wrongdoing and insists he should have “absolute immunity” for any “official acts” while in office. His name and the specifics of the case …

In this Nov. 15, 2022, file photo, former President Donald Trump leaves the stage after speaking during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case said in court filings that a former Trump administration official told investigators that Trump, as president, had “no standing …

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGOTN) — The Biden administration has determined that three military battalions with the Israel Defense Forces committed “gross human rights violations” against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank but will remain eligible for U.S. military aid regardless because of steps Israel says it’s taking to address the problem, ABC News has learned. The …

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Live Nation Ellen DeGeneres kicked off her Ellen’s Last Stand … Up Tour on Wednesday, April 24, and didn’t shy away from tackling the controversy surrounding her talk show, and the accusations of poor working conditions that she jokes got her “kicked out of show business.” “There’s no mean people in show business,” she noted, per …

DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Public health officials are continuing to monitor as an outbreak of avian flu, also known as bird flu, continues to spread across the country. The strain, known as H5N1, has sickened several mammals this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and …

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The overall number of births in the United States dropped in 2023 as teenage births reached a record low, according to new provisional federal data published early Thursday. In 2023, there were 3.59 million births recorded, a 2% decline from the 3.66 million recorded in 2022, according to the report from the Centers for …

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The nearly 30 million kids who eat meals at schools each day in the United States will soon see some changes to the food they are served. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a series of changes to nutrition standards for school meals, including one that is a historic first. Here are …