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Jul 05 2021
News
Biden says U.S. is close to "independence from a deadly virus"
President Joe Biden used his Fourth of July speech Sunday to declare that the U.S. is "closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus."
What he's saying: "This year, the Fourth of July is a day of special celebration," Biden said before a crowd of 1,000 essential workers and military families. "For we are emerging from the darkness of years. A year pandemic and
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Jan 13 2019
News
White House Sought Options to Strike Iran
President Trump’s National Security Council asked the Pentagon to provide the White House with military options to strike Iran last year, generating concern at the Pentagon and State Department, current and former U.S. officials said.
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Sep 15 2021
News
North Korea fires two ballistic missiles into East Sea, South says
North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles across its east coast, South Korea's military says, its first ballistic missile test in six months.
The tests, a breach of UN resolutions, came as South Korea and China held meetings in an effort to get the North to resume denuclearisation talks.
The launches show the North has continued to develop its weapons despite a severe economic
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Aug 05 2020
News
Biden confidants reportedly see VP list narrowed down to 2
As presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden spends this week at his home in Delaware, holding one-on-one meetings with roughly half-dozen contenders who have made his shortlist for running mate, a new report speculates that the former vice president has narrowed his choices to two candidates.
Those two, according to Biden confidants who spoke with Axios, are Sen. Kamala
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Aug 24 2021
News
What the US Didn’t Learn in Afghanistan, According to the Government’s Own Inspector General
The chaotic collapse of the Afghan military in recent months made starkly clear that the $83 billion U.S. taxpayers spent to create and fund those security forces achieved little. But a new report this week by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction also reveals the depths of failure of the United States’ entire 20-year, $145 billion effort to reconstruct (or construct, in
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Oct 26 2020
News
Colorado Voters Could Be First To Pass Paid Family Leave by Ballot Measure
FOR SIX YEARS, the Colorado legislature has tried — and failed — to pass paid family leave. On November 3, Colorado residents themselves will get the opportunity to vote directly for the creation of a leave program, thanks to the ballot measure Proposition 118.
If it passes, the ballot measure will create a social insurance program that will provide all state residents 12 weeks of paid
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Nov 07 2019
News
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushes vote on sweeping drug pricing bill to December
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not bring her sweeping drug pricing bill to the floor for a vote this month as previously expected, according to a Senior Democratic aide.
Pelosi’s office is awaiting the final review from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, which measures the bill’s impact on federal spending. That is now expected to take two more weeks, according to the
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Dec 22 2020
News
Dozens of West Point cadets accused of cheating on math exam
Dozens of West Point cadets have been accused of cheating on a math exam in a scandal that officials on Monday said could be the largest violation of the school’s honor system in years.
U.S. Military Academy spokesman Lt. Col. Chris Ophardt said that of 73 accused cadets, 55 admitted to cheating on the May exam, which was first reported by USA Today.
The students will be enrolled
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Oct 26 2016
News
Florida Once Again a Focus in 2016 Campaign
Trump and Clinton spend days in the state, home to competitive Senate and House races as well.
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Nov 24 2020
Opinion
Defense In Depth
Why U.S. Security Depends on Alliances—Now More Than Ever By Kori Schake, Jim Mattis, Jim Ellis, and Joe Felter
The world is not getting safer, for the United States or for U.S. interests. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the 2017 National Defense Strategy described an international environment of increased global disorder, long-term strategic competition, rapid dispersion of
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