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Bo Zaunders/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. President Joe Biden will sign a “historic” executive order on Friday that will change how the military handles sexual assault cases, the White House said. The executive order will amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) by transferring key decision-making powers from commanders to specialized, independent military prosecutors […]
Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Departments of Commerce and Defense signed a memorandum of agreement on Wednesday in an effort to strengthen information sharing and coordination in doling out CHIPS incentive funds — a move top U.S. officials say will shore up national security as China attempts to overtake the United States in […]
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has a yawning early lead in FiveThirtyEight’s new Democratic presidential primary polling average as he ramps up his reelection campaign. As of Thursday, the new average shows Biden with 65.5% support nationally and controversial environmental advocate and attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. trailing […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Tuesday said it was canceling $130 million in federal debt for 7,400 students who went to a Colorado college that the government says lied about its successes. “These borrowers were lied to, ripped off and saddled with mountains of debt,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. […]
David Peinado Romero/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration expressed a federal judge’s ruling striking down the Biden administration’s asylum policy that established a “rebuttable presumption” of asylum ineligibility. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said he disagreed with the court’s ruling. “It does not limit our ability to deliver consequences for unlawful […]
Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. Till, the Black 14-year-old who was lynched in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, became a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement. His murder highlighted […]
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s campaign slammed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ culture war platform on Tuesday as a “contrived political stunt,” in its first on the record comments on the Republican presidential candidate. DeSantis rolled out a proposal to “rip the woke out of the military” by, in […]
Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden hosted Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House on Tuesday amid continued tension with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government. The meeting with Herzog, whose role as president is largely ceremonial, and Biden’s recent invite to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet […]
SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After a U.S. Army soldier launched international headlines by apparently intentionally crossing the border into North Korea on Tuesday, the Biden administration sent mixed signals on how far it might be willing to go to secure his release. “We’re looking into this,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told […]
Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s campaign announced Friday that it, along with the Democratic National Committee and their joint fundraising committees, raised a collective $72 million since the president launched his reelection bid in April. The groups say they finished the quarter with a massive $77 million on hand. […]
