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Biden is up against nostalgia for Trump’s first term
CNNPresident Joe Biden is casting the 2024 election partly as a referendum on Donald Trump, but it’s a harder card to play now that he’s in office and some voters have warming memories of the former president’s chaotic term. The presumptive GOP nominee is showing progress in gathering the...
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Blinken arrives in Saudi Arabia to discuss Israel normalization, post-war Gaza
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the first stop in a broader trip to the Middle East to discuss issues including the governance of Gaza once the war with Israel ends. The top US diplomat heads to Israel later this week, where he is expected to press Israeli...
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US to give Ukraine new Patriot missiles as part of $6 billion aid package
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday announced the United States will provide key air defense munitions and artillery rounds to Ukraine as part of a $6 billion military aid package that is its largest ever for Kyiv. ......
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Europe is beating inflation. Why can’t America declare victory?
Inflation may have tumbled from multi-decade highs on both sides of the Atlantic, but progress has stalled in the United States, with the Federal Reserve now expected to start cutting interest rates well after its European counterpart. Annual US inflation, as measured by the Fed’s preferred gauge,...
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Xi tells Blinken US, China should be 'partners, not rivals'
BEIJING, ChinaChinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken...
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A defense budget of $1 trillion is looming. Here’s how to stop it
On the 2020 campaign trail, candidate Joe Biden said President Trump had abandoned all fiscal discipline on military spending. Four years later, the Pentagon budget is $146 billion higher than when Trump left office, and President Biden just exploited a loophole in his budget deal with Rep. Kevin...
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Right-wing media ruptures over Marjorie Taylor Greene’s threat to oust Mike Johnson
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. Marjorie Taylor Greene has exposed the fault lines in right-wing media. As the extremist Republican congresswoman threatens to...
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Across the Western world, public opinion on Palestine is finally shifting
For a very long time, many in the Western world have not engaged at all with the issues stemming from the occupation of Palestine. The occupation was in the news, every year or so, for a day or two, and then it would go again. It was too “complicated”, those who knew about the context – on either...
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Biden's 13th-Quarter Approval Average Lowest Historically
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Joe Biden averaged 38.7% job approval during his recently completed 13th quarter in office, which began on Jan. 20 and ended April 19. None of the other nine presidents elected to their first term since Dwight Eisenhower had a lower 13th-quarter average than Biden....
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'Beyond disappointed': Hollywood reacts to Weinstein ruling
Harvey Weinstein leaves a Manhattan courthouse after closing arguments in his rape trial in New York. File/AP Hollywood stars, including multiple actresses who have accused Harvey Weinstein of assault, reacted with shock and outrage Thursday after the former movie producer's New York sex crimes...
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