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Democrats, Growing More Skeptical of Israel, Pressure Biden

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s carefully worded statement on Monday supporting a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians came amid growing pressure within his own party for the United States to take a more skeptical stance toward one of its closest allies. Mr. Biden’s urging of a halt to the fighting — tucked at the end of […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 17, 2021, 7:33 pm
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Trump Justice Dept. Tried to Use Grand Jury to Identify Nunes Critic on Twitter

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department under President Trump secretly obtained a grand-jury subpoena last year in an attempt to identify the person behind a Twitter account dedicated to mocking Representative Devin Nunes of California, according to a newly unsealed court document. But Twitter fought the subpoena, as well as an associated gag order barring the […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 17, 2021, 7:27 pm
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Biden releases his tax forms, showing that he and his wife, Jill Biden, earned just over $600,000 in 2020.

President Biden released tax forms on Monday showing that he and his wife, Jill Biden, earned just over $600,000 in 2020. The release resumed a presidential tradition of disclosure broken by Donald J. Trump. The Bidens paid an effective federal income tax rate of 25.9 percent after donating about 5 percent of their income to […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 17, 2021, 6:46 pm
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Biden Dips Into U.S. Vaccine Supply to Send 20 Million Doses Abroad

WASHINGTON — President Biden, heeding widespread calls to step up his response to the pandemic’s surge abroad, said on Monday that his administration would send 20 million doses of federally authorized coronavirus vaccine overseas in June — the first time he has pledged to give away doses that could be used in the United States. […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 17, 2021, 6:25 pm
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Biden Is Developing a Pardon Process With a Focus on Racial Justice

WASHINGTON — Administration officials have quietly begun evaluating clemency requests and have signaled to activists that President Biden could begin issuing pardons or commutations by the midpoint of his term. The effort, which is being overseen by the White House Counsel’s Office and the Justice Department, is an implicit rebuke of President Donald J. Trump’s […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 17, 2021, 4:20 pm
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Fed Bets Inflation Expectations Will Stay Controlled

Turn on the news, scroll through Facebook, or listen to a White House briefing these days and there’s a good chance you’ll catch the Federal Reserve’s least-favorite word: Inflation. If that bubbling popular concern about prices gets too ingrained in America’s psyche, it could spell trouble for the nation’s central bank. Interest in inflation has […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 17, 2021, 3:34 pm
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They Live in the U.S., but They’re Not Allowed to Come Home

In early April, Payal Raj accompanied her family to India to renew the visas that permit them to live in the United States. She and her husband waited until they had been vaccinated, carefully preparing their paperwork according to the advice of their immigration lawyers. But the visa itself would soon strand her in India […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 17, 2021, 1:52 pm
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Former Gaetz Confidant Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Cooperate

ORLANDO, Fla. — Joel Greenberg, the former confidant of Representative Matt Gaetz, pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court in Orlando to a range of charges, including sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl, as part of a plea deal that will require him to help in other Justice Department investigations. The deal was an ominous development […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 17, 2021, 12:19 pm
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Opinion | President Biden, Thousands of Refugees Are Waiting On You

When President Biden took the oath of office, refugees in the U.S. resettlement pipeline felt they finally had some good news. Our client Faida, who fled persecution in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was six months pregnant when she received word that she had met the legal requirements and cleared all background, security and medical […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 17, 2021, 7:27 am
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Prosecuting the Capitol Rioters

Hundreds have been arrested and charged in connection with the attack on Jan. 6, paving the way for a series of historic trials. View the Original Article More

by Tonya Frazier May 17, 2021, 5:00 am
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In New Vaccination Push, Biden Leans on His ‘Community Corps’

At the Temple of Praise, a predominantly Black church in southeast Washington, D.C., clergy, church volunteers and local doctors and pharmacists have worked to vaccinate more than 4,000 people, many in the congregation. The church is still using up its weekly allotments of the Moderna shot, with lines snaking through the parking lot every week […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 16, 2021, 4:16 pm
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Damon Weaver, Child Reporter Who Interviewed Obama, Dies at 23

Damon Weaver, who at age 11 became one of the youngest people to interview a sitting president and later gained attention for scoring other high-profile interviews with celebrities such as Dwyane Wade and Oprah Winfrey, died on May 1. He was 23. The death was confirmed by Candace Hardy, Mr. Weaver’s sister. She told WPTV-TV […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 15, 2021, 4:54 pm