Yahoo Home 
Yahoo NewsWill federal workers ever come back to downtown Washington?
The lack of workers returning to cities has been felt especially deeply in Washington, where remote work has been more popular than in any other American city of significant size. Now, with the pandemic on the wane, district officials are fighting the trend by confronting the federal government.
- Yahoo News
'A failing of basic humanity': Former police officers grapple with Tyre Nichols killing
The gruesome footage of Memphis police officers viciously beating Tyre Nichols on Jan. 7 stunned law enforcement officials and experts across the U.S., who instantly grasped that their profession would suffer deep damage from the actions of the five officers.
- Yahoo News
Russian bioweapons charge is 'bogus,' White House says
White House officials have dismissed Russian allegations, recently leveled again by a top Kremlin general, that the United States developed biological weapons in Ukraine, including the coronavirus.
- Yahoo News
'Extremely frustrated' NYC Mayor Eric Adams pleads with White House for more help on migrant crisis
On Sunday, buses arrived at the Watson Hotel on the West Side of Manhattan to transport migrants who had been housed there to a shelter that Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, was opening on the Brooklyn waterfront.
- Yahoo News
Attorney who helped firebomb NYPD car during BLM protests sentenced to prison
On Thursday a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to a year in jail, arguing that his prestigious education should have rendered him a peacekeeper, not an instigator.
- Yahoo News
Russia not invited to Auschwitz liberation ceremony
Friday will mark the 78th anniversary of the haunting winter afternoon when Red Army troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than a million people had been murdered. Russian officials will not be attending.
- Yahoo News
'Extremely disconcerting': NIH didn't track U.S. funds going to Chinese virus research, watchdog finds
The National Institutes of Health failed to provide adequate oversight of an American organization that funded controversial research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, a new government report says.
- Yahoo News
Russia fumes over NATO tanks heading to Ukraine, revealing a Kremlin coming to grips with reality
Russia responded with anger and scorn after Germany and the United States revealed that they would be supplying Ukraine with powerful, advanced battle tanks. Moscow invoked history and warned of a broader conflict.
- Yahoo News
Washington Post and Mike Pompeo spar over legacy of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Mike Pompeo, the former CIA director and U.S. secretary of state, escalated his feud with the Washington Post on Tuesday over the legacy of the slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which the newspaper has accused him of tarnishing.
- Yahoo News
Classified documents have caused headaches for many presidents
The parallel investigations into how President Biden and former President Donald Trump handled classified documents have made for an extraordinary moment in Washington, with a special counsel appointed to each case by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
- Yahoo News
Bail reform is a mistake, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez tells Biden at White House summit
The contentious issue of cash bail — the practice of having criminal suspects pay a fee to avoid waiting for their day in court in jail — remains largely unresolved, pitting the president’s commitment to racial justice against persistent concerns about crime.
- Yahoo News
‘Totally irresponsible’: Biden faces backlash after new classified documents found at Wilmington home
President Biden faced criticism from both Democrats and Republicans after Saturday’s revelation that classified documents had been found at his private home in Wilmington, Del.
- Yahoo News
White House: Florida ban on African American studies course is 'incomprehensible'
Florida’s ban on teaching an Advanced Placement course on African-American history is “incomprehensible,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday, in the latest dispute between the Biden administration and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely presidential nominee who has energized conservatives with a series of cultural crusades.
- Yahoo News
Gains by Wagner Group in Ukraine give ‘Putin’s chef,’ Yevgeny Prigozhin, greater Kremlin clout
The Wagner Group, a shadowy paramilitary outfit, is making gains for Russia in eastern Ukraine — apparently exacerbating tensions in Moscow, where military chiefs are hesitant to give credit to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin insider responsible for the effort.
- Yahoo News
'Absurd': Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov sparks backlash for invoking Holocaust
Once again, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has caused widespread outrage by comparing his nation’s international isolation — the result of last year’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine — to the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust.
- Yahoo News
White House prepares to resist Republican probes into Biden's handling of classified documents
A White House official attacked House Republicans on Tuesday for engaging in “political stunts” over the classified documents found in President Biden’s home and former office, declining to say whether it will cooperate with congressional investigations into the issue.
- Yahoo News
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny fights for his survival
Two years after he was arrested upon returning to Russia, convicted on fictitious charges and shipped off to serve an 11-year sentence in a brutal penal colony, dissident politician Alexei Navalny has managed a feat that is rare for Kremlin opponents: He is surviving.
- Yahoo News
White House knocked off course by Biden classified document revelations
This week, news emerged that classified documents had been found at an office President Biden used during his time as vice president and at his residence in Wilmington, Del. Thus arrived the White House’s first real challenge — not yet a crisis, perhaps, but certainly a problem — of 2023.
- Yahoo News
White House blasts 'backwards' Republican proposal on Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The White House on Thursday sharply criticized what it called a “backwards” bill introduced by House Republicans that would limit presidential authority to tap the national Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which President Biden has done repeatedly in an effort to bring down gas prices.
- Yahoo News
Arguments over masks aren't going away in 2023
The question of whether to mask is still unresolved, especially with a "tripledemic" sweeping across the U.S. States dropped their mask mandates long ago, but masking is still required in some institutions, like hospitals or theaters.
Make Yahoo Your Homepage
Discover something new every day from News, Sports, Finance, Entertainment and more!