Articles filed under Political Figures
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At inflection point, Pentagon chief holds final forum for Ukraine aidJan 10, 2025 6:27 am - RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — More than two dozen times since Russia’s 2022 invasion, President Joe Biden’s Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin, has gone around the table with hi...
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Trump gets no-penalty sentence in his hush money case, while calling it ‘despicable’Jan 10, 2025 5:53 am - President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment in his historic hush money case, a judgment that lets him return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.
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Judge scraps Biden’s Title IX rules, reversing expansion of protections for LGBTQ+ studentsJan 09, 2025 2:09 pm - The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found they overstepped the president’s authority.
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US orange juice and steel will be on Canada’s list for retaliation if Trump imposes tariffsJan 09, 2025 2:02 pm - Canada is looking at putting retaliatory tariffs on American orange juice, toilets and some steel products if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump follows through with his threat to impose 25% tariffs on all Canadian products, a senior official familiar with the matter said Thursday.
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Trump, the ‘America First’ candidate, has a new preoccupation: ImperialismJan 09, 2025 1:58 pm - Donald Trump ran on a return to his "America First” foreign policy platform. The U.S., he said, could no longer afford to be the world's policeman. On his watch, he pledged, there would be no new wars.
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Trump asks appeals court to block entire special counsel reportJan 09, 2025 1:23 pm - Donald Trump urged a federal appeals court late Wednesday to block the release of both volumes of a special counsel report on his two dismissed federal cases - the latest attempt by the president-elect to fight the final remnants of his criminal cases.
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From Carter's funeral, an American snapshot: A singular image, 5 presidents, 379 years of historyJan 09, 2025 12:25 pm - Look at their faces — formal, etched with experience, laden with the weight of momentous decisions. Add up their years: 379 to be exact, enough time to take you back into the mid-1600s, when the notion of the American nation was still more than a century away.
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Jimmy Carter lauded for his humility and service in Washington before his return to GeorgiaJan 09, 2025 9:26 am - Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed.
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Biden casts doubt on his fitness to serve another four years days before term endsJan 08, 2025 2:56 pm - President Joe Biden, in a new interview days before he leaves office, cast doubt on his fitness to serve another four years even as he maintained that he could have won election to a second term.
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Mexico’s President Sheinbaum offers sarcastic response to Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ commentJan 08, 2025 2:42 pm - Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum responded sarcastically on Wednesday to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.