Joe Biden
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President Biden announced Monday that he had commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 current federal death row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole. “These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder,” Biden said in a statement. Consistent…
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Reactions started coming through shortly after the announcement on Sunday evening that President Joe Biden had pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for his tax evasion and federal gun charges. A reversal for the president, the pardon came about two weeks before his son was scheduled for sentencing in both cases: on Dec. 12 on the gun-related charges…
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Democrats spent much of the presidential campaign warning that Donald Trump is a threat to the rule of law, to faith in public institutions — even to the truth itself. In pardoning his son, President Joe Biden undercut each of those arguments while giving Trump political cover to pursue the far-right ambitions that Democrats fear will…
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President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family members. The Democrat president had previously said he would not pardon his…
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Demoralized Democrats are soul-searching and blaming each other after President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding election victory exposed erosion among working-class support for Democrats that poses a potential long-term crisis for the party. Democrats − who have long prided themselves as the party for the little guy − instead strengthened their emerging base of financially secure college graduates…
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An American soldier has died after being injured during Washington’s problem-plagued operation to establish a temporary aid pier on the coast of Gaza, the US military said Tuesday (Nov 5). The pier effort aimed to boost deliveries of desperately needed humanitarian assistance into the war-wracked Palestinian territory as Israel held up shipments by land. But…
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This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Joe’s Gotta’ Go. Talk with just about any professional Democrat in Washington or with a state party or even in a local race for utility commission, and that’s the overwhelming and increasingly contemptuous verdict when it comes to President Joe Biden in the final…
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In what the media will potentially try to claim Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shamed his opposition’s voters, Trump called the Democrat Party – not their voters – “demonic.” Trump was quick to point out he was referencing the party itself — not the voters within. “This is a group of people, large group of…
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President Joe Biden has sparked a row with the Republican party after Kamala Harris delivered a major speech. With six days to go, the candidates for the US presidential election are neck and neck in the polls. Yesterday, Harris delivered her closing arguments as long-term Trump ally Steve Bannon was released from prison. Follow us for live…
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Qatar says it will work with the Biden administration “until the last minute” before the US presidential election to help achieve a ceasefire deal in Gaza. The Gulf state, along with the US and Egypt, has been spearheading negotiations to end the war between Israel and Hamas since the conflict erupted in October 2023. The…
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US President Joe Biden has just said he hopes Israel’s strikes on Iran overnight are “the end”. He also said it appears Israel only hit military targets in its strikes, which came in response to an Iranian attack earlier this month. As we reported in the past couple of hours, four Iranian soldiers have been…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Joe Biden discussed defense issues in a phone call, Zelensky’s press service reported Wednesday. During the conversation, Zelensky expressed gratitude to the United States for the new defense package worth 425 million U.S. dollars, which includes additional air defense systems and long-range weapons. He urged the United States…
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Summary ‘It’s a gamble we weren’t willing to make’: Floridians evacuating as storm nears If you decide to live in Florida, you inevitably are entered into the “hurricane lottery,” Gerald Lemus tells me from a hotel he’s fled to. Lemus has lived in the Gulf Coast city of Bradenton his whole life and has never…
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U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday condemned the massacre of innocent people by Hamas and mourned the loss of civilian lives in Gaza in a call with Israeli President Isaac Herzog as the world marks the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. Expressing his “deepest condolences” to the 1,200 innocent people killed…
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Joe Biden has said he will be talking to Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu but has not given details on when. The US president avoided a question on what the leaders would talk about, saying: “I’ll tell you what I say to him when I talk to him.” Asked whether all-out war in the Middle East could…
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Joe Biden has made his final address to the UN General Assembly as president of the United States. The global media expected him to use his wide-ranging address to speak to the need to end the conflict in the Middle East. World at another ‘inflection point’, Biden says Joe Biden says many people will “see…
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