The president’s visit was timed to mark the anniversary of the Good Friday accord, which the U.S. was key to striking.
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Former Twitter executives deny pressure to block Hunter Biden laptop story
The hearing continues a yearslong trend of the GOP calling tech company leaders to testify about alleged political bias.
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White House defends its delayed, limited disclosure about documents
The discovery complicates a federal probe into former President Donald Trump and is a political headache for President Biden.
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Justice Department reviewing potentially classified documents at Biden institute
Attorneys for Biden notified the White House, which alerted the National Archives, when a small number of papers with classified markings were found locked at the president’s former institute.
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Jared Golden off the rails again in opposing Biden’s plea for labor deal
The Lewiston Democrat said imposing railroad pact by legislation was ‘premature.’
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Russia ‘shamelessly violated’ UN charter in Ukraine, Biden tells world leaders
The president also pledges $2.9 billion in global food security aid to address shortages caused by the war and the effects of climate change, in a speech to the UN General Assembly.
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Biden at UN to call Russian war an affront to body’s charter
White House officials say the crux of President Joe Biden’s visit to the U.N. this year would be a full-throated condemnation of Russia as its brutal war nears the seven-month mark.
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Biden hopes ending cancer can be a ‘national purpose’ for U.S.
His speech comes as Biden seeks to rally the nation around developing treatments and therapeutics for the pervasive diseases that the CDC rank as the 2nd-highest killer of people in the U.S. after heart disease.
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Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan could help more than 40 million people
Borrowers who earn less than $125,000 a year, or families earning less than $250,000, would be eligible for the $10,000 loan forgiveness.
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Biden emerges from COVID isolation, tells public: Get shots
The president talks more about treatment than prevention, a sign of how the pandemic and his approach have evolved.