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President Joe Biden stops in El Paso on way to Mexico City for firsthand look at Southern border situation

President Joe Biden is heading to the Mexico-U.S. border on January 8, his first trip there as president after two years of hounding by Republicans who have hammered him as soft on border security while the number of migrants crossing spirals. Biden is due to spend a few hours in El Paso, Texas, currently the biggest corridor for illegal crossings, due in large part to Nicaraguans fleeing repression, crime and poverty in their country. They are among migrants from four countries who are now subject to quick expulsion under new rules enacted by the Biden administration in the past...

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Wanting an old job back: How a Trump presidential bid could follow Roosevelt’s failed Bull Moose campaign

By Jerald Podair, Professor of History, Lawrence University What happens when a former president decides he wants his old job back, regardless of what stands in his way? As Donald Trump launches his third run for the White House, it is useful to look back at another ex-president, Theodore Roosevelt, whose campaign to regain the office from his successor, William Howard Taft, divided the Republican Party and ensured the victory of Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the presidential election of 1912. In my view as a scholar of 20th-century American history, Roosevelt’s sense of entitlement, moral narcissism and belief in...

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Failed Speaker Bid: Two years after deadly insurrection finds Congress again paralyzed on January 6

The one time-honored specialty of Washington, memorializing and coming together over national trauma, is not what it used to be. Such are the fractures in the country, between the political parties and inside the Republican Party itself. The moment of silence at the Capitol to contemplate the January 6, 2021, assault on it was expected to draw mostly Democrats. At the White House, few Republicans were expected for a ceremony at which President Joe Biden will award Presidential Citizens Medals to a dozen state and local officials, election workers and police officers for their “exemplary deeds of service for...

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Zelenskyy to meet Biden and address Congress today in first trip to Washington since Russia’s invasion began

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was making his way to Washington on December 21 for a summit with President Joe Biden and to address Congress in his first known trip outside the country since Russia’s invasion began in February. Zelenskyy said on his Twitter account that the visit was “to strengthen resilience and defense capabilities” of Ukraine and discuss cooperation between his country and the U.S with Biden. The highly sensitive trip is taking place after 10 months of a brutal war that has seen tens of thousands killed and wounded on both sides of the conflict, along with devastation...

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Thousands of veterans have flooded VA with health claims since President Biden signed Toxic exposure law

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is processing claims at the fastest rate in its history, hoping to avoid a significant backlog as hundreds of thousands of veterans apply for health care and benefits under the landmark toxic exposure law Congress passed earlier this year. The day after President Joe Biden signed the bill into law in August, veterans set an all-time record for benefits claims filed online and more than 136,000 have applied for benefits under the toxic exposure law as of mid-November. The VA expects the number of veterans and surviving family members applying could reach more...

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Biden administration restarts task force aimed at helping immigrants succeed in the United States

The Biden administration is reinstating a task force that is aimed at helping immigrants and refugees integrate into the United States. The Task Force on New Americans will be run by the Domestic Policy Council and the focus will be workforce training, education and financial access as well as language learning and the health of immigrants who have green cards and other types of legal status, according to the White House. A version of the task force had been in existence off and on since the mid-2000s, most recently under former President Barack Obama before it lapsed under Donald...

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