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Analysis: President Biden's farewell speech comes too late for many Americans

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President Joe Biden’s farewell speech Wednesday night came too late for many Americans, including members of his Democratic Party who wanted him to step aside before the primary.

The doggedness that marked Biden’s early congressional career, with him becoming known as a widowed dad traveling home every night on Amtrak to be with his sons, ...Read more

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Biden cites threat from 'extreme wealth' in farewell address

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden warned Americans of a “dangerous concentration of power” in the hands of a “very few ultrawealthy people” and the impact he feared it would have on the country’s democracy as he delivered a farewell address Wednesday from the Oval Office.

“Today an oligarchy is taking shape in America — of ...Read more

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Q&A: How an 8-year break from Congress has reenergized Indiana congressman

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WASHINGTON — After an eight-year break, Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana is back in the House and ready to get to work on President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda. “It’s a new day,” he says.

First elected to Congress in 2010, Stutzman was an active member of the House Freedom Caucus, and perhaps best known for voting against then-Speaker ...Read more

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Trump's idea to rebrand Gulf of Mexico would face hurdles -- if he's even serious

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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s out-of-the-blue pledge to rebrand the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” — as well as some of his other renaming ideas — would likely take more than the stroke of a presidential pen to make good on.

During a wide-ranging press conference last week at his Florida resort, the president-elect said a ...Read more

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Trump's AG nominee won't say who won the 2020 election but repeats fraud claims about Pa.: 'I saw so much'

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Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general, repeatedly brought up Pennsylvania as she declined to answer who won the 2020 presidential election in her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday.

“I accept, of course, that Joe Biden is president of the United States,” Bondi said in response to a question from ...Read more

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Now that the U.S. House has passed bill on transgender athletes in women's sports, here's what to know

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The U.S. House passed a bill Tuesday that would ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports, the first step in what is expected to be a long and controversial process.

Locally, this issue became a flashpoint as Andraya Yearwood of Cromwell High and Terry Miller of Bloomfield competed in Connecticut ...Read more

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Trump blames Newsom for Los Angeles wildfires. How has California governor responded?

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Donald Trump is treating California Gov. Gavin Newsom “as his punching bag,” triggering an extraordinary battle between a president and a governor at a time when thousands are suffering and dozens are dying from the wildfires that have ravaged Southern California.

“He’s treating Gavin Newsom as his punching bag before he’s even in ...Read more

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Rubio says Cuba belongs on list of sponsors of terrorism a day after Biden removed it

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Just a day after President Joe Biden took Cuba off the list of nations that sponsor terrorism in exchange for the release of political prisoners, the deal is falling apart.

During his Senate confirmation hearing to become the next secretary of state, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said Cuba belongs on the list, adding the incoming Trump ...Read more

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Rubio says Trump won't intervene in Haiti but will support current mission: 'No easy answer'

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WASHINGTON — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the answer to Haiti’s gang-fueled security crisis will not come from U.S. military intervention, but could still come from a multinational support effort spearheaded by the Biden administration, indicating President-elect Donald Trump will stay the current U.S. policy course on the ...Read more

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Supreme Court leans in favor of state-enforced age limits on porn websites

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WASHINGTON — Thanks to the internet and smartphones, children today have instant access to vast amounts of online pornography, much it graphic, violent and degrading, Texas state attorneys told the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

They urged justices to restore the rules of an earlier era, when X-rated theaters and bookstores had an adults-only ...Read more

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Jill Biden suggests first family feels betrayed by Nancy Pelosi

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Jill Biden suggested in a new interview that the first family still feels betrayed by Nancy Pelosi over the Democratic powerbroker’s role in shoving President Biden to the political exits after his shaky debate performance.

The outgoing First Lady said she and her husband were blindsided when Pelosi joined a successful pressure campaign to ...Read more

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Editorial: President Biden remains in the clutches of delusion

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Joe Biden leaves the Oval Office the same way he entered it: in a foggy state of delusion.

On Monday, Biden defended his foreign policy legacy during a speech at the State Department, arguing the United States is stronger on the international stage and its enemies are weaker.

“I come here to the State Department to report to the American ...Read more

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Michelle Obama doesn't want to 'pretend' at Trump inauguration: report

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After Michelle Obama’s office confirmed that the former First Lady will not be present at Donald Trump’s inauguration, many people have speculated about the reason for her absence.

A source close to the “Becoming” author says she simply does not want to be “pretend” with someone she feels is a threat to American democracy.

“There...Read more

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Trump's tariffs brought China and Mexico closer. Will his second term change that?

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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The last time Donald Trump was president, he imposed a slew of tariffs on China that upended global trade. He's threatening to do it again.

Round One inadvertently pushed China and Mexico closer together on trade and foreign investment, as China sought new trade partners and a detour for its exports to reach the U.S.

This ...Read more

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Las Vegas police association to join Trump's presidential parade

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LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Police Protective Association will join President-elect Donald Trump’s Presidential Parade next week following his swearing-in ceremony, according to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee.

The association, which endorsed Trump in the 2024 election, is made up of more than 3,700 active and retired police and ...Read more

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Sen. Marco Rubio appears set to win confirmation as secretary of State

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WASHINGTON — Once a bitter critic of President-elect Donald Trump, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida headed into his first Senate hearing Wednesday as nominee for secretary of State.

Rubio, with extensive experience on Capitol Hill and in foreign policy circles, appears to be the least controversial in Trump's list of Cabinet picks, many...Read more

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Colorado's Douglas County commissioners unanimously support Trump's immigration plans, deportations

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DENVER — Douglas County’s three commissioners adopted a resolution Tuesday that gives full backing to incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to deport immigrants living illegally in the country.

The measure, one of the first items voted on by newly seated Commissioner Kevin Van Winkle, echoes one that the Castle Rock City Council passed ...Read more

Kamala Harris memes questioning her cultural background highlight Americans’ contradictions with race

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Even after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election, Americans continue to argue about her race.

During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump accused Harris, who is biracial, of toggling between being Indian and being Black. Once, a Fox News reporter suggested she had started speaking like a Southerner, ...Read more

In eyeing Greenland, Trump is echoing long-held American designs on the Arctic expanse

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At a news conference in early January 2025, President-elect Donald Trump rambled through a grab bag of grievances and proposals, including his disdain for wind power and low-flow showerheads and his thoughts on the possible acquisition of the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland.

On the latter, he mused, “People really don’t even ...Read more

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World readies for Trump tariffs even before his White House return

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Donald Trump’s inauguration promises to usher in an era of upheaval in global commerce, forcing governments around the world to scramble in preparation for a tariff onslaught even before he’s back in the White House.

Soon after calls to congratulate the president-elect on his Nov. 5 victory, officials began quietly looking for ways to ...Read more

 

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