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Biden faces series of minefields in coming year By Amie Parnes and Morgan Chalfant TheHill January 1, 2022 President Biden is staring down a number of minefields when he returns to Washington in the new year. Biden will have to tackle major issues, including getting the coronavirus under control after a severe spike from the omicron variant during the holiday season. He will have to ensure that the deadly virus doesn’t overwhelm the nation’s health systems and the financial markets. Biden will also have to try to revive talks about his signature climate and social spending legislation to…
The left is already looking to 2024. Some want to see a Biden primary challenge. By Holly Otterbein POLITICO January 1, 2022 When Joe Biden first came into office, progressives said he could be the next FDR. Now, as Biden’s relationship with the left has come under strain, liberals are talking about treating him like former President Jimmy Carter instead — and mapping out a Democratic primary challenge in 2024. “Will there be a progressive challenger? Yes,” said Jeff Weaver, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ former presidential campaign manager. Continue Reading…..
Biden to speak with Zelensky as US warns against Russian invasion of Ukraine By Betsy Klein CNN January 1, 2022 Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden will speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, several days after Biden urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to ease an unremitting military crisis on Ukraine’s border. Biden, a White House official said, “plans to speak by phone with President Zelensky of Ukraine on Sunday to reaffirm US support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, discuss Russia’s military build-up on Ukraine’s borders, and review preparations for upcoming diplomatic engagements to help de-escalate the situation…
In the year since the US Capitol attack, judges remind us what it means to be American By Hannah Rabinowitz CNN December 31, 2021 (CNN)On January 6, rioters streamed past the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, and descended upon the US Capitol. For weeks after the attack, DC’s chief judge said she could see National Guard troops from the window in her chambers. And in the year since the deadly riot, as divisive politics rage and the public becomes more divided about just what happened as Congress was trying to certify Joe Biden’s election victory, judges have taken…
Obama to deliver eulogy at Harry Reid’s funeral The Washington Times December 31, 2021 Former President Barack Obama is set to deliver the eulogy at the late Sen. Harry Reid’s funeral next week. The funeral will be held at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Las Vegas at 11 a.m. on Jan. 8. Mr. Reid, a prominent Nevada Democrat who served as Senate majority leader, died Tuesday after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 82. Continue Reading…..
At least 18 billionaires & hundreds of rich elites ‘got stimulus check’ The US Sun December 31, 2021 AT LEAST 18 billionaires and hundreds of other rich elites collected stimulus checks intended to support struggling households during Covid-19. The 270 wealthy Americans who reportedly wrote off enough deductions to qualify for the extra sums doled out by Uncle Sam actually all earned $5.7billion in income, according to their previous tax returns. Each appears to have whittled down their tax responsibilities to claim to have earned negative net incomes allowing them to receive the $1,200 single and $2,400 married…
Texas professor claims ‘Madden NFL’ games ‘dehumanized’ Black athletes By Dom Calicchio Fox News December 31, 2021 The “Madden NFL” video game franchise promoted by legendary NFL coach John Madden “dehumanized black athletes” and helped create a digital “plantation,” a college professor claimed this week. Andrew McGregor, who teaches history at Dallas College in Texas, further claimed that Madden “profited off of Black athletic labor and glamorized the violence inherent in the game.” Since posting the comments Tuesday, the same day Madden died at age 85, the professor, who is White, has locked his Twitter account, the Washington…
Why the new legal attack from Trump allies against the House January 6 committee is a long shot By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz CNN December 31, 2021 (CNN)The flurry of lawsuits filed in recent weeks trying to stop the House January 6 committee’s subpoenas are revealing, in many ways, the opposite: That the House has been largely successful at sweeping up documents for the probe and interviewing dozens of major witnesses. A throughline in many of the cases are allegations that the select committee’s makeup — where House Republican leadership did not choose the panel’s GOP members…
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