Biden establishes largest corridor of protected land by adding 2 new monuments

President Joe Biden on Tuesday is set to designate two new monuments and, in doing so, establish the largest tract of protected land in the continental United States by expanding a corridor out West, the White House said. The proclamations Biden plans to sign would create the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands National Monuments, with the […]

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Biden announces $2.5 billion in Ukraine defense assistance

WASHINGTON and LONDON — President Joe Biden announced on Monday that the United States would offer almost $2.5 billion in defense assistance to Ukraine, a move that will bring an “immediate influx of capabilities” as the country defends itself against Russia’s assault. “At my direction, the United States will continue to work relentlessly to strengthen […]

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Biden quips not signing stimulus check was ‘stupid,’ calls Trump tariff approach ‘a major mistake’

President Joe Biden delivered remarks Tuesday focused on his administration’s economic legacy, drawing a sharp contrast between his four years in office and President-elect Donald Trump’s past and future terms. Biden, speaking at the Brookings Institution, reflected on the economy he inherited from Trump and his administration’s work to help the country recover from COVID-19, […]

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Harris, Walz join campaign finance calls, declare the ‘fight’s not over’

Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday thanked supporters during an virtual call and vowed that the “fight’s not over” in what was her first remarks since conceding defeat to President-elect Donald Trump three weeks ago. “The fight that fueled our campaign, a fight for freedom and opportunity, that did not end on Nov. 5. A […]

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Biden awards Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards

President Joe Biden on Wednesday awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards at a private ceremony, the White House said. Richards, the daughter of the late Texas Gov. Ann Richards, left the reproductive health care organization in 2018 after leading it for 12 years. Earlier this year, Richards revealed […]

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Biden sending emergency funding bill for disaster relief to Congress

President Joe Biden will send Congress an emergency funding bill “in the coming days,” with the intent to address the urgent need for disaster relief throughout the United States following a brutal storm season, a White House official said in a memo on Monday. Several agencies said they are running low of money in the […]

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Harris, Obama to campaign together for 1st time at star-studded Georgia rally

Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign with former President Barack Obama for the first time Thursday night in must-win Georgia at a star-studded rally near Atlanta to kick off her “When We Vote We Win” concert series to turn out voters in the election’s closing stretch. Bruce Springsteen, whose music has peppered many Democratic presidential […]

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Harris paints Trump as a national threat in testy Fox News interview

Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday hammered former President Donald Trump as thin-skinned and a threat to U.S. democracy in a fiery interview with Fox News. Harris raised Trump’s recent rhetoric about the “enemy within” and threats to use the military to go after political opponents on Election Day and supposed chaos to suggest that […]

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Harris calls Trump ‘increasingly unstable and unhinged’ during Pennsylvania rally

Vice President Kamala Harris deployed a new show-and-tell approach to lambasting former President Donald Trump at her Monday night rally, by playing clips of him calling his opponents the “enemy within,” something she said signaled he was “increasingly unstable and unhinged.” “After all these years, we know who Donald Trump is: He is someone who […]

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Harris to release medical report to give Trump’s health and advanced age new scrutiny: Senior aide

Vice President Kamala Harris will release a report with details about her health and medical history on Saturday, which will conclude she has the mental sharpness to serve as president, a senior aide said, as they try to place former President Donald Trump’s health and advanced age under new scrutiny. The senior Harris aide said […]

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