First lady Jill Biden said Wednesday that she and President Biden will visit the town in Texas where at least 19 elementary school students were shot dead, and she offered a prayer for Americans to “act united with common sense to protect our children.”
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$1.9T COVID-19 relief advanced equity, boosted Black people and Hispanic people, report finds
The White House released a report Tuesday to show that President Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief measure of 2021, which is now being blamed for record-high inflation, has succeeded — especially by helping Black people and Hispanic people get job…
Ukraine indicts first Russian soldier for alleged war crimes
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova announced on Wednesday her office’s first war crimes indictment against a Russian soldier accused of killing a civilian.
Biden blames Putin and ‘ultra-MAGA’ for inflation, pledges to give voters ‘simple’ explanations
President Biden on Tuesday blamed Russia’s war in Ukraine, corporate greed, the pandemic and the policies of “ultra-MAGA Republicans” for causing record-high inflation, and insisted that Democrats’ big spending didn’t spur the highest price increases i…
Stocks nosedive on recession fears, wiping out gains after Fed’s move
Stocks plunged Thursday amid lingering concerns of a recession, wiping out the big gains of a day earlier that followed the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates to curb inflation.
Biden says abortion, personal freedoms can’t be decided by the ‘whims’ of local communities
President Biden said Tuesday he doesn’t want a conservative Supreme Court majority to result in personal freedoms being decided by “the whims of the public” in local communities.
Google searches for ‘U-Haul’ spike after report that Supreme Court will overturn Roe
Online searches for U-Haul services spiked after a report that the Supreme Court is preparing to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling on the right to an abortion, according to an online gambling site.
Roe v. Wade leak called an effort to intimidate Supreme Court justices
The leaking of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion prompted outrage Monday night including accusations by Republican senators of a liberal-left effort to intimidate the justices into changing their ruling.
Oz performed surgeries at Chinese military hospital in the early ’90s
Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, who has built his Republican primary campaign on a “tough on China” approach, once performed surgeries at a Chinese military hospital in the 1990s.
White House backs new Homeland Security ‘misinformation’ board
The White House expressed support Thursday for a new Homeland Security board to address “misinformation” online, although press secretary Jen Psaki said she isn’t familiar with the woman chosen to lead the effort.