President Joe Biden delivered his first major election year campaign speech on Friday near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Biden lambasted his predecessor and potential 2024 rival Donald Trump in a forceful addredss, emphasizing the former president’s refusal to accept the peaceful transfer of power in 2020 as a continued threat to …
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President Joe Biden is issuing a pardon to more Americans who have been convicted of possessing marijuana for personal use nationwide federally and in Washington, D.C., the White House announced Friday. The pardon applies to U.S. Citizens and permanent residents who’ve been convicted of possessing marijuana for personal use on …
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On Friday morning, President Joe Biden announced that he would be extending pardons to all Americans convicted of “simple possession and use of marijuana under federal and D.C. law,” as well as commuting the sentences of 11 people serving “disproportionately long” drug sentences. The move is the latest step in …
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W E’VE LIVED THROUGH a pandemic. We’re living in a climate crisis. We’re living through a mental health crisis. We’re living in a day and age when school shootings are the norm,” Keely Magee, a 21-year-old activist from New Jersey says with frustration. It’s a feeling familiar to many of …
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During his third trip to Iowa this month, Donald Trump warned that if he was not elected president in 2024, the U.S. would see its economy plunge into a “1929”-era depression. His words arrived as the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record high Wednesday. Trump, who accomplished the feat …
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House Republicans will vote Wednesday on whether to formalize their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The party has struggled to gin up a legitimate rationale for moving forward with the inquiry, which has yet to produce any credible evidence of wrongdoing, but one Republican is saying the quiet part …
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The House of Representatives has officially authorized an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, formalizing their years-long fishing expedition against the president in a floor vote on Wednesday. Lawmakers voted 221-212 along party lines to approve the resolution authorizing the inquiry. Before being ousted from the speakership by his own …
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As House Republicans make public their intent to move forward with an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, they’re struggling to convince the public — and even themselves — that they’ll be able to obtain the evidence of the high crimes and misdemeanors necessary to impeach a president. On Tuesday, …
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This week’s Saturday Night Live opened with a sketch mocking this week’s sham antisemitism hearing in front of a GOP-led Congress, which saw three university presidents (and MAGA Rep. Elise Stefanik) embarrass themselves while answering inane questions about the temperature on college campuses. Then, both host Adam Driver and musical …
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In 2020, young voters broke turnout records — more than half of 18 to 29 year olds cast ballots, according to the U.S. Census Bureau —and those young voters broke, overwhelmingly, for Joe Biden. The question haunting Biden’s reelection campaign is whether that critical cohort of voters will show up …
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