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A Texas woman who went into premature labor, developed sepsis and nearly died and a Louisiana woman who said restrictive abortion laws prevented her from getting medical help for a miscarriage are now campaigning for President Joe Biden as the Democrat highlights how women’s health is being affected by the overturning of federal abortion protections. Amanda Zurawski and Kaitlyn Joshua will travel to North Carolina and Wisconsin over the next two weeks to meet with doctors, local officials and voters. The Biden campaign sees their stories as potent firsthand accounts of the growing medical peril for many women as...

President Joe Biden laced into Donald Trump on May 8, over a failed project in the previous administration that was supposed to bring thousands of new jobs into southeastern Wisconsin and trumpeted new economic investments under his watch that are coming to the same spot. That location in the battleground state will now be the site of a new data center from Microsoft, whose president credited the Biden administration’s economic policies for paving the way for the new investments. For President Biden, it offered another point of contrast between him and Trump, who had promised a $10 billion investment...

Disgraced and criminally indicted ex-president Donald Trump continues a non-stop escalation of his immigration rhetoric, with baseless accusations that President Joe Biden has waged a “conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America.” Trump has a long history of trying to turn attack lines back on his rivals in an attempt to diminish their impact. Biden has cast Trump as a threat to democracy, pointing to the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Those efforts culminated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, as his supporters tried to halt the...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pushed back against unfounded Republican criticism of the Democrats’ big coronavirus pandemic response package. Her statements aimed to clear up election-year misinformation by Trump loyalists and set the record straight about the current state of the U.S. economy. Evidence vindicated the steps taken in 2021 to “get our economy back on track.” With falling inflation, unemployment at 3.7% and the U.S. apparently defying predictions of a recession, Yellen defended the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan in remarks at a January conference meeting of U.S. Mayors in Washington. The stimulus package, which was passed into law...