Author: Seung Min Kim
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Biden delivers economic message as campaign winds down
SYRACUSE, N.Y. • President Joe Biden zeroed in Thursday on economic issues as he fine-tuned his closing argument in upstate New York for voters trying to cope with raging inflation and fears of a recession heading into the Nov. 8 election. Biden’s visits to a congressional battleground in Syracuse and then to Philadelphia on Friday…
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Progressives retract Ukraine letter to Biden after uproar
WASHINGTON • A group of progressive Democrats in Congress said Tuesday it had retracted a letter to the White House urging President Joe Biden to engage in direct diplomatic talks with Russia after it triggered an uproar among Democrats and raised questions about the strength of the party’s support for Ukraine. In a statement, Rep.…
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GOP states sue Biden administration over student loan plan
WASHINGTON • Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration in an effort to halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, accusing it of overstepping its executive powers. It’s at least the second legal challenge this week to the sweeping proposal laid out by President Joe Biden in…
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Biden begins summer vacation with family in South Carolina
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. • President Joe Biden arrived in South Carolina on Wednesday to begin what is expected to be at least a seven-day vacation with members of his family outside Washington. The first couple was planning to be in Kiawah Island, noted for its private beach and golf resort, through Tuesday, according to Federal…
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Biden announces modest climate actions
SOMERSET, Mass. • President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced modest new steps to combat climate change and promised more robust action to come, saying, “This is an emergency, and I will look at it that way.” The president stopped short, though, of declaring a formal climate emergency, which Democrats and environmental groups have been seeking…
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Report: Biden holds off on climate emergency declaration
WASHINGTON • President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to promote his efforts to combat climate change but will stop short of issuing an emergency declaration that would unlock federal resources to deal with the issue, according to a person familiar with the president’s plans. Biden has been under pressure to issue an…
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FBI reaches out to Colorado woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct
WASHINGTON – The FBI has begun contacting people as part of an additional background investigation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, including a second woman who alleges that the Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her, according to people familiar with the unfolding investigation. The bureau has reached out to Deborah Ramirez, a Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh’s…
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Kavanaugh accuser to tell her side to Senate
WASHINGTON – Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, said Saturday that she has accepted the Senate Judiciary Committee’s request to testify about her allegation next week. In an email sent to the committee at 2:17 p.m. Saturday, attorneys…
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Trump says Kavanaugh ‘doesn’t deserve’ what is happening after sexual assault allegations
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he feels “terribly” for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee who could face off in a high-stakes hearing next week with a woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. “I feel so badly that he’s going through this,” Trump said…
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Trump and Sessions feud over the direction of the Justice Department
WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions engaged in a public war of words Thursday — more fallout over the Justice Department securing a guilty plea this week from Trump’s former lawyer and a guilty verdict against his former campaign chairman. The spectacle of the commander in chief feuding with the nation’s…