After Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) publicly pulled his support for Biden’s social spending package, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called his excuses “a farce” but laid the blame for Build Back Better’s failure squarely at the feet of Democratic leadership. During an appearance on Morning Joethe day after Manchin told Fox …
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Eighty-seven former federal prosecutors are pushing the Biden Justice Department to end a Trump-era “felon-in-possession” initiative that lets prosecutors shift gun cases out of D.C.’s Superior Court and into federal District Court, where sentences can be twice as long. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Acting U.S. …
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WASHINGTON —The Forever War might at last be coming to an end. On Wednesday, the news leaked out that President Biden planned to announce that American troops would fully withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. To hear the Biden administration tell it, this will not be a partial exit …
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Democrats have introduced a White House-backed bill to overhaul the immigration system, create an eight-year path to citizenship, and allow undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States to obtain legal status. “We have 11 million undocumented people living, working and raising families in our communities without legal status,” said …
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President-elect Joe Biden blasted both the rioters who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and Trump for encouraging them. “Yesterday, in my view was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation — an unprecedented assault on our democracy,” Biden said. The president-elect continued, “What we …
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Democrats will control the U.S. Senate thanks to voters in Georgia First, Rev. Raphael Warnock unseated incumbent appointee Sen. Kelly Loeffler to become the first black American ever elected to statewide office in Georgia and only the eleventh black senator in U.S. history. On Wednesday afternoon, amid the chaos at …
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This article was originally published by Grist, and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Xavier Becerra, the first Latino attorney general of California, has been a thorn in the Trump administration’s side since President Donald Trump moved into the White House nearly four years ago. Becerra and …
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As Covid-19 spreads throughout the United States at an alarming rate — a million cases in the last six days — Dr. Anthony Fauci delivered some dark news on CNN’s State of the Union. Fauci said that a recent University of Washington model projection that estimated the country could see …
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Joe Biden went after Pete Buttigieg in a new digital ad that cleverly mocks the inexperience of the small-city mayor while contrasting it with Biden’s breadth of experience as vice president. The video, called “Pete’s Record,” opens with a clip of former President Barack Obama calling Joe Biden “the best …
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Elizabeth Warren has jumped into second place nationally in a poll of the Democratic 2020 field. The Economist/YouGov survey shows her surge has come at the expense of Bernie Sanders, who now sits in third place. No surprise: The poll finds Joe Biden still comfortably in first place. But the …
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