Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo appeared through video conferencing Tuesday during a Senate hearing for her nomination as the next commerce secretary to oversee the Census Bureau.Jonathan Ernst | Bloomberg via Getty Images President Biden's nominee for overseeing the Census Bureau, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, says she intends to ...

Patti Herring sobs as she sorts through the remains of her home in Fultondale, Ala., on Tuesday, after her house was destroyed by a tornado.Jay Reeves | AP Emergency crews continue to remove debris and conduct additional search and rescue efforts after a tornado ripped through a suburban area north ...

Pro-Trump extremists attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The acting U.S. Capitol Police chief apologized to Congress Tuesday for the department's failure to secure the building.Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, in her first congressional testimony following the Jan. 6 assault on the ...

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is seen here in November. A judge has ordered that tapes allegedly showing Kraft paying for sex at a massage parlor must be destroyed.Elsa | Getty Images A federal judge in Florida has ordered that videos which allegedly show Robert Kraft, the owner of ...

Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow, had been using his Twitter account to spread disinformation about the 2020 election.Bloomberg via Getty Images Twitter has suspended Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow, from the social media platform. He had been using his Twitter account to spread disinformation about the ...

Lisa Howze, Gia Howze and Palestine Howze. Palestine Howze died last year. Now her family is suing Treyburn Rehabilitation Center, where she lived.Lisa Howze Palestine Howze died April 14, 2020, in a North Carolina nursing home. She had developed a pressure ulcer — or bed sore as they're commonly known. ...

Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here. DON EMMERT | AFP via Getty Images Michael Sinkinson is a Count Chocula guy. Sure, it's not the healthiest breakfast. But he finds what General Mills describes as "the chocolatey cereal with spooky-fun marshmallows" just ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., dropped his demand that any power-sharing agreement with Democrats must keep the legislative filibuster intact.Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg via Getty Images Updated at 8:12 a.m. ET Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dropped his demand that Democrats maintain the Senate filibuster — ending an early ...

A resident of the Minneapolis metro area became ill at the beginning of January. The patient had traveled to Brazil before the onset of symptoms.Stephen Maturen | AFP via Getty Images A new variant of coronavirus first detected in Brazil has been confirmed in Minnesota. The variant was detected by ...

Residents of Protection, Kan., gathered in the high school gym to receive polio shots on April 2, 1957. The mass inoculation event was staged by the March of Dimes, then known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.Courtesy March of Dimes Sixty-four years ago, residents of this tiny town in ...