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The strategist responsible for orchestrating Barack Obama‘s successful presidential campaign in 2008 has suggested that President Joe Biden withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, following a negative poll that indicates he is well behind his opponent, former President Donald Trump. David Axelrod highlighted recent polling data released by the New York Times and Siena College on Sunday, indicating that Biden is trailing behind Trump in five critical battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania. He had won all of these states when he ran against Trump in the 2020 ...
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President Joe Biden‘s reelection campaign has announced that they have managed to raise more money than the combined funds of the entire Republican field – and also twice the amount that former President Donald Trump has on hand. The Biden campaign reported a massive $72 million haul in the second quarter of the year, with $77 million in cash readily available. This gives them a clear advantage over their rival. The money collected during this period is similar to the amount of $72 million that was raised by Biden and the Democratic party in the previous quarter. However, the duration of April...
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President Joe Biden stated in a primetime television speech on Thursday that the leadership of the United States is crucial in maintaining stability around the world. He emphasized the importance of providing increased support to Ukraine and Israel, both of which are undergoing drastically different conflicts. While acknowledging that these situations in both countries may seem distant, Biden stressed that addressing them is essential to the national security of the U.S. The president intends to ask Congress for military aid totaling billions of dollars for both countries. Biden also said that...
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President Joe Biden has requested Congress appropriate $100 billion in funding to aid Israel, Ukraine and domestic issues including border funding and disaster aid. According to officials, once the funding level is finalized, it is expected to cover a year’s worth of aid. The Biden administration’s request will be sent to Congress Hill by Friday after Biden returns from his trip to Israel. After the Palestinian militant group Hamas executed their attack earlier this month, calls came from both parties for more aid to Israel. Some House Republicans have expressed concern over combining Israel a...
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Days after the resumption of federal student loan payments, the Biden administration okayed debt relief worth $9 billion for 125,000 more student loan seekers. Student loan payments resumed after a pause of more than three years under two administrations. Earlier, the Supreme Court set aside President Joe Biden‘s program under which student loans are forgiven. This program pledged up to $20,000 in debt relief. But despite the court’s decision against the program, the government has continued to grant loan forgiveness using other initiatives. For its part, the administration considers the stude...
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A shutdown of the federal government was narrowly averted on Saturday as President Joe Biden signed a stopgap plan to keep the government open after Congress hurriedly passed the bill. This bill would ensure that the government remains open until mid-November. The plan did not include new funding for United States’ assistance to Ukraine, which has been a priority for the Biden administration despite opposition from many Republican lawmakers. It increases federal disaster assistance by $16 billion, fulfilling Biden’s request. The House Democrats approved the plan despite the fact that it did no...
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On Tuesday afternoon, President Joe Biden arrived on the streets of suburban Detroit to support the United Auto Workers strike that has lasted 12 days. Biden encouraged auto workers to “stick with it” as they marched for their demands. With a bullhorn in hand, Biden told the strikers to continue pushing their demands for a 40% wage increase, especially with the rise in profits that car companies have seen in recent years. He argued that auto companies have yet to meet union demands, especially after UAW supported the automobile industry through the 2008 financial crisis by making huge wage c...
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President Joe Biden has always touted the benefits of state universities and questioned the superiority of Ivy League colleges. Now, the University of Delaware alum has instructed the Education Department to conduct a civil rights investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions process. While on his 2020 campaign trail, Biden acknowledged that he would be the first president without an Ivy League degree since Ronald Reagan, who attended Eureka College. “I went to the University of Delaware, and I was proud of it,” said Biden to a crowd in Toledo, Ohio. “Hard to get there, hard to get through in...
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President Joe Biden and his administration have banned funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. An investigation determined that the facility is not up to U.S. health and safety regulations. Theories about the institution have been spread around the world, as many believe that the lab is responsible for leaking Covid-19. Republican officials have claimed that China manufactured the virus in this facility, though the U.S. intelligence committee has yet to verify the origin of the pandemic. The Department of Health and Human Services told the institution that it is looking to permanently cut...
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Wesleyan University, an elite liberal arts college in Connecticut, has decided to end legacy admissions. The announcement came weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action. Legacy admissions have been a point of contention within higher education systems for decades. After the Supreme Court ruled that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s use of race-based admissions processes were unconstitutional, conversations resurfaced about legacy admissions as favoring white, wealthy applicants. Few highly selective colleges and universities have already dropped legacy admi...
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