President Biden urged Congress to codify into federal law the right to abortion after an alleged draft majority opinion leaked and revealed the Supreme Court may be planning to overturn abortion rights in the U.S. “If the Court does overturn Roe, it will fall on our nation’s elected officials at …
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KHARKIV, UKRAINE— Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched an attack on Ukraine. Moments after Putin announced Russia would launch “special military operations” in a speech broadcast on Russian television Thursday morning local time, explosions were heard in multiple major Ukrainian cities, which Ukrainian government officials later claimed were missile strikes …
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By many measures Donald Trump was not a great president. He used the office for his own financial gain; he implemented cruel and racist immigration policies; he failed to take the pandemic seriously and did not do enough to slow its spread; and he tried to overthrow the government by …
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has terminated two border wall contracts that were issued during the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Friday. In a statement, DHS said the canceled wall contracts—originally planned to cover the Laredo sector of Texas spanning approximately 31 miles—were not necessary …
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In a speech, President Biden celebrated the U.S. reaching a milestone 300 million vaccinations in 150 days while warning communities with low vaccination rates that they “will be very hurt” by the Covid-19 variants that are spreading across the globe. “I see an important milestone that just didn’t happen on …
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While campaigning last year, then-candidate Joe Biden didn’t seem very enthusiastic about his prospective Justice Department prosecuting prospective civilian Donald Trump. It’s “a very, very unusual thing and probably not very … good for democracy, to be talking about prosecuting former presidents,” the future president said in August. But it …
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WASHINGTON — On the 65th day of his presidency, President Joe Biden appeared before the White House press corps for his first formal press conference. He took questions from more than a dozen reporters on issues that included America’s forever wars, U.S.-China relations, the southern border with Mexico, and voting …
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Katy Perry closed out the Inauguration DayCelebrating America concert with a surprise performance of her 2010 hit “Firework.” Other performances at the special included Demi Lovato, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters, Justin Timberlake, and more in honor of Joe Biden becoming the 46th President of the United States. …
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UPDATE (1/15):Foo Fighters, John Legend, and Bruce Springsteen have joined the lineup for Celebrating America, a primetime special heralding the inauguration of Joe Biden. The artists will be performing in “iconic locations across the country,” according to a release. Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington also joined the special and will …
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The United States has escaped four more years of a Donald Trump presidency. In an election that saw the highest voter turnout in the last 120 years, Americans have elected former Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., to be the 46th president. At 11:25 a.m. on Saturday, November 7, the …
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