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President Joe Biden unveiled a $7.3 trillion budget blueprint Monday that amounts to an election-year pledge to lower costs for struggling families while reining in federal deficits and protecting cherished entitlement programs.

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to South Florida next week to visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to continue to raise awareness about gun safety policies.

 Catherine, the Princess of Wales, said she altered an official photo and expressed her “apologies for any confusion” that may have been caused after it was retracted by global news agencies over concerns it had been doctored.

 US Senator Robert Menendez pleaded not guilty Monday to expanded bribery charges that accuse him of accepting gold bars, cash and a Mercedes Benz in exchange for helping three businessmen.

As Haiti’s armed gangs, already in control of some of the country’s strategic assets, threaten to overtake the National Palace to install their own president, Caribbean leaders prepare to meet in Jamaica on Monday for a one-day emergency session on the escalating crisis.

Tesla Inc. is likely years away from fully ramping a new lower-cost model, which will take the company longer than Wall Street is assuming, Evercore analysts said after touring the Austin-based carmaker’s factory in Texas.

After a slightly extended stay on board the International Space Station, four astronauts from four international space agencies climbed aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance and began their return trip to Earth.

A water brand with a popular social media following is now a billion-dollar company. Los Angeles-based Liquid Death has raised new capital that values the startup at $1.4 billion, double its $700 million valuation in 2022.

A tragedy played out along Florida’s Gulf Coast during spring break as a stranded 44-foot whale slowly died while stuck in the surf.

Pharmaceutical giants are mounting a vigorous legal battle against President Biden’s plan to lower seniors’ prescription drug costs, urging federal judges here and around the country to invalidate a new program that aims to reduce the price of medications for high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

Russia is weighing options for big tax increases to raise as much as 4 trillion rubles ($44 billion) as the war in Ukraine puts growing pressure on the government’s coffers.

Bitcoin topped $72,000 for the first time, advancing for a sixth straight day and taking gains this year to almost 70% on the back of massive inflows into U.S. exchange-traded funds.

On March 5, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a rule capping credit card late payment fees at $8 for the biggest card issuers after inviting public comment on the matter last year. According to the consumer protection agency, the move is an effort to rein in “excessive” credit card late fees.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the Federal Aviation Administration will rigorously assess Boeing Co. after the blowout of a fuselage section on an Alaska Airlines flight in January.

At least 50 people have been injured after a Latam Airlines Group SA flight from Sydney to Auckland suffered a mid-air incident.

Here’s an overview of construction projects that could affect Spokane roads this week.

Lauren Sanders could not give birth in her hometown of Sandpoint. With the closure of the local hospitals’ labor and delivery services a year earlier, she had to drive over an hour to Coeur d’Alene to give birth to her son, now 4 months old .