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Aug 16 2021
News
Trump: Who Will Biden Surrender to Next?
Former President Donald Trump continued to slam his successor's failed policies on Monday.
"First Joe Biden surrendered to COVID and it has come roaring back. Then he surrendered to the Taliban, who has quickly overtaken Afghanistan and destroyed confidence in American power and influence," Trump said in a statement issued through his Save America PAC.
"The outcome in Afghanistan
Newsmax (News)
Apr 22 2021
Opinion
On Earth Day, youth activists can change the narrative
In 1969, Denis Hayes was 25 years old in grad school. After just one semester and a 15-minute meeting with Sen. Gaylord Nelson in Washington, D.C., Hayes traded in his academic books for a picket sign and became a central organizer of the nonprofit group Environmental Teach-In, Inc., which would found Earth Day in 1970.
After the first Earth Day, a momentous accomplishment in and of
Washington Examiner
Jan 16 2021
Opinion
Republicans call for unity but won’t acknowledge Biden won fairly
The call for unity came from one of President Trump’s most loyal supporters in Congress, nearly a week after a pro-Trump mob rampaged the U.S. Capitol in a riot that left five people dead.
“What happened at the Capitol on January 6 was as wrong as wrong can be,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told colleagues during a virtual committee meeting about Democrats’ demands that Trump be removed
Washington Post
Oct 16 2013
News
Congress races to head off US default, will it beat the clock?
Senate majority leader Harry Reid and minority leader Mitch McConnell expected to wrap up their negotiations in time to hold votes on the package Wednesday. The deal was expected to mirror one that Senate leaders discussed over the weekend.
Christian Science Monitor
Nov 11 2020
Analysis
Black Americans moving to the South flipped Georgia
Joe Biden is set to win Georgia in the 2020 US presidential election. It appears he will beat Donald Trump by a razor thin margin of a little over 10,000 votes—in a state where about 5 million people voted. It would be the first time a Democrat took Georgia since Bill Clinton barely won the state in 1992.
There are a variety of reasons why Democrats improved their results in Georgia in
Quartz
Nov 11 2020
News
Biden plans sweeping reversal of Trump's immigration agenda, from deportations to asylum policy
While the COVID-19 public health crisis and its impact on the U.S. economy will preoccupy President-elect Joe Biden during his first weeks in office, the incoming Democratic administration is also expected to quickly start dismantling President Trump's immigration agenda.
After Mr. Biden is sworn-in in January, his administration will move to fully restore an Obama-era program that
CBS News (Online)
Jan 23 2013
News
Clinton takes on Benghazi critics, warns of more security threats
At times angry and choked with emotion, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday took on Republican critics of her department's handling of the September terrorist attack in Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, but repeatedly distanced herself from a direct role in specific situations. "As I have said many times since September 11, I take responsibility,"
CNN Digital
Jul 25 2020
News
New FBI Notes Re-Debunk Major NYT Story, Highlight Media Collusion To Produce Russia Hoax
The FBI official who ran the investigation into whether the Donald Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election privately admitted in newly released notes that a major New York Times article was riddled with lies, falsehoods, and “misleading and inaccurate” information. The February 2017 story was penned by three reporters who would win Pulitzers for their
The Federalist
Nov 11 2020
News
Republicans who could serve in a Biden government
Bill Clinton had Republican William Cohen. George W. Bush had Democrat Norm Mineta. Barack Obama had Republicans Ray LaHood and Chuck Hagel.
Now President-elect Joe Biden, who called for ending this “grim era of demonization in America,” is likewise signaling he might reach across the aisle to name Republicans to a Cabinet post and other key slots in his administration.
It
The Hill
Jul 15 2013
News
Closed-Door Showdown on Filibuster Fight
Republicans say they hope a meeting Monday of senators of both parties will avert a clash this week over President Barack Obama's executive-branch nominees that is threatening to poison relations in the Senate and slow progress on a range of legislation.
But the Senate's Democratic leader, Sen. Harry Reid, gave no signal Sunday that he expected anything from the Monday meeting to
Wall Street Journal (News)