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Byline: John Bacon, Michael Collins,, Josh Meyer, Aysha Bagchi,, Rick Jervis and David Jackson An apparently thwarted assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course was [...]

Byline: Joey Garrison and Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris narrowly leads former President Donald Trump in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania and two [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - When the history of the 2024 presidential election is written, the one and only debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY CHICAGO - When Jessica Anacker was in junior high, a teacher pulled her out of English class one day after she was bullied by a [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY CHICAGO - Joe Biden wasn't ready to go away. He'd had his eyes on the presidency for years. Now it was his, and he wasn't [...]

Byline: Francesca Chambers and Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden's challenge to debate Donald Trump in June, before the former president has even been awarded the Republican [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY BELLEAU, France - President Joe Biden ended his five-day trip to France on Sunday by paying his respects to World War I soldiers buried in [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France - They came by the thousands, back to the hilltop overlooking the sea. On a sunny afternoon in late spring, World War II [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY PARIS - The war that engulfed Europe had already been raging for three years when Joe Biden was born on Nov. 20, 1942. The kid [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France - A single sentence in the fading pages of Louise Hamel's diary documents the first moments of the day that would become a [...]

Byline: Michael Collins USA TODAY EN ROUTE TO FRANCE - Robert Pedigo had a hunch. He and his bomber crew, based in England, had been flying missions against the Nazis. [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, Francesca Chambers, Karissa Waddick, Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy and Megan Smith, USA TODAY CONCORD, N.H. - A defiant Nikki Haley resisted calls to end her campaign and promised [...]

Byline: Michael Collins and Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The White House promised on President Joe Biden's first day in office that the new administration would bring transparency [...]

Byline: Joey Garrison, Francesca Chambers and Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The deal between Israel and Hamas for the release of 50 hostages from Gaza capped an 'extremely excruciating [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, Joey Garrison and Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - With Israel on the verge of launching a ground war against Hamas, fears are rising that the [...]

Byline: Michael Collins USA TODAY WASHINGTON - In September 2021, Joe Biden became the first president in two decades to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks without U.S. [...]

Byline: Sudiksha Kochi and Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - A late-summer surge in COVID-19 cases has meant the return of face masks in some parts of the country, reigniting [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, and Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY President Joe Biden said Thursday he doesn't foresee Vladimir Putin using nuclear weapons against Ukraine, arguing that the Russian president has already [...]

Byline: Chris Quintana, Rafael Carranza and Michael Collins, USA TODAY NETWORK The White House has continued to dodge questions on why the Department of Justice is going to great lengths [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - It was an uncomfortable conversation between old friends. When President Joe Biden spoke last weekend with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden relayed [...]

Byline: Maureen Groppe and Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden knew this month that he needed to project command and confidence as he prepared to deal with [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden has designated new national monuments in Texas and Nevada. Biden on Tuesday signed proclamations establishing the Castner Range National Monument [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Wealthy Americans will pay higher taxes under the proposed budget that President Joe Biden will send to Congress on Thursday, but Biden says [...]

Byline: Michael Collins and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Tucked away in a secretive office, a little-known team of government scientists began looking into al-Qaida and the possibility of [...]

Byline: Maureen Groppe and Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - A divided Congress. An expected upcoming reelection announcement. Those are the twin forces that will shape President Joe Biden's State [...]

Byline: Michael Collins and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The U.S. military killed a senior Islamic State leader during an assault operation in northern Somalia. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Jeff Zients, who steered President Joe Biden's response to the COVID-19 pandemic during the first year of his administration, will benamed the new [...]

Byline: Francesca Chambers, and Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden's agenda, from abortion rights to climate change and more, will largely be blunted in the new Congress, [...]

Byline: Francesca Chambers, and Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - French President Emmanuel Macron was so furious with the Biden administration last fall over a submarine snub, he ordered his [...]

Byline: Kim Hjelmgaard and Michael Collins, USA TODAY The Biden administration offered support Monday for peaceful protesters in China who spilled into the streets over the weekend to demonstrate against [...]

Byline: Michael Collins and Rebecca Morin USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The votes had been counted. There was no 'ballot stuffing' or 'fowl play,' President Joe Biden said Monday. And for [...]

Byline: Michael Collins and Joey Garrison, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Joe Biden marked a milestone on Sunday that no other president has achieved while in office: He turned 80. Biden, [...]

Byline: Maureen Groppe and Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Days before the midterm elections, President Joe Biden amplified his argument that democracy itself is at stake, warning in a [...]

Byline: Maureen Groppe and Michael Collins USA TODAY As rain threatened hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico on Monday, President Joe Biden promised to rebuild the island - stronger than it was before [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's eyes grew teary and his voice cracked with emotion as he informed his fellow countrymen of the death of Britain's [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, Kim Hjelmgaard and Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY LONDON - Ditch the armored limo. Leave the presidential chopper at home. President Joe Biden and other dignitaries who plan [...]

Byline: Michael Collins and Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Liz Truss became the U.K.'s third female prime minister on Tuesday, an historic event that did not go unnoticed in [...]

Byline: Kim Hjelmgaard and Michael Collins, USA TODAY LONDON - A politician whose career is full of ideological U-turns and who has drawn comparisons to Margaret Thatcher, or a smooth-talking [...]

Byline: Michael Collins and Fatema HosseiniUSA TODAY Soha's life is filled with fear. Just a year ago, it was filled with opportunity. The fall of Afghanistan, the hasty retreat of [...]

Byline: Maureen Groppe, Michael Collins and Francesca Chambers USA TODAY With a few strokes of a pen on Tuesday, President Joe Biden turned Democrats' hard-fought climate and health care spending [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden ended his isolation and left the White House Sunday for the first time in more than two weeks after recovering [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - On his first day in office, President Joe Biden inherited the toilsome task of healing a nation scarred by a mob attack on [...]

Byline: Joey Garrison and Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Mitch Spencer's business costs soared after the U.S. imposed tariffs on billions of dollars in Chinese imports four years ago. [...]

Byline: Maureen Groppe, Michael Collins and Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Hours after testing positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, President Joe Biden reassured the nation, 'it's going to be [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Facing pressure from his party to act more aggressively to safeguard abortion access, President Joe Biden announced steps his administration is taking, including [...]

Byline: Joey Garrison and Michael Collins, USA TODAY Clay Schemm's great-grandfather moved to Kansas in the 1920s with a tractor and not much else. The cash crop was wheat. Today, [...]

Byline: Francesca Chambers, Michael Collins and Joey Garrison, USA TODAY MADRID - President Joe Biden said Thursday he would support changing filibuster rules in the Senate to make it easier [...]

Byline: Michael Collins and Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The White House's initial strategy for dealing with inflation was to assure Americans that rising prices were a short-term problem [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - In the daily diet of propaganda that Russia feeds its citizens, Ukrainians are Nazis, Russian soldiers are liberators, Americans are schemers and Ukrainian [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, Maureen Groppe and Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden sought Tuesday to ease fears over inflation, promising that tackling rising prices is his top [...]