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Biden pressures Senate Republicans to back Democrats’ ‘dark money’ bill

President Biden on Tuesday called on Senate Republicans to back the Democrats' push to root out "dark money" from politics with just weeks until the midterm votes.

September 20, 2022

Liz Cheney’s swan song: Defeated congresswoman offers up Electoral Count Act rewrite

Rep. Liz Cheney teamed up with a Democratic colleague on the House Jan. 6 committee to push a rewrite of the Electoral Count Act that they say will ensure "future efforts to attack the integrity of presidential elections can't succeed."

September 19, 2022

U.S. engineer freed by Taliban in exchange for convicted drug kingpin

The Biden administration on Monday secured the release of an American contractor who had been held hostage for more than two years in Afghanistan in exchange for a noted Taliban drug lord jailed in the U.S. for more than a decade.

September 19, 2022

White House pledges to hold Russia accountable amid new reports of mass graves in Ukraine

The White House is pledging to hold Russia accountable for potential war crimes as reports of hundreds of mass graves pour in from the recently liberated Ukrainian city of Izyum.

September 16, 2022

Kremlin ignoring Biden’s ‘serious offer’ to secure release of Griner, Whelan

The Biden administration has received no response from the Kremlin about its "serious offer" to secure the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.

September 16, 2022

Biden accuses Republican border-state governors of using migrants ‘as props’

President Biden accused Republicans on Thursday of "playing politics with human beings" after two busloads of immigrants sent by the governor of Texas arrived in front of the Naval Observatory, where Vice President Kamala Harris lives.

September 15, 2022

Biden says anti-hate forum attendees not ‘a bunch of wacko liberals’

President Biden told attendees Thursday at his summit to stamp out White supremacist violence not to be discouraged by those calling them "a bunch of wacko liberals."

September 15, 2022

Biden’s ‘semi-fascism’ rhetoric causing more Republicans to fly below polling radar

Robert Cahaly of the Trafalgar Group polling firm, which gained prominence after accurately predicting former President Donald Trump's 2016 surge, says judging the political landscape ahead of the midterms has just become harder.

September 15, 2022

Biden accused of pressuring FBI to fabricate ‘extremist’ and ‘White supremacist’ cases

Rank-and-file FBI agents are accusing the Biden administration of exaggerating the threat of White supremacists and pressuring agents to cook up domestic terrorist cases involving racist extremists.

September 15, 2022

FBI insiders say White supremacy threat overblown as Biden opens summit about racists, extremists

President Biden will convene a forum Thursday at the White House aimed at confronting what civil rights groups, local officials and academics say is an explosive rise in extremism and White supremacy that threatens the core of America's democracy.

September 14, 2022

White House to announce $2 billion in spending on biotechnology initiatives

The White House plans to lay out on Wednesday how it plans to spend more than $2 billion tied to President Biden's executive order aimed at boosting domestic biotechnology innovation and manufacturing unveiled earlier this week.

September 13, 2022

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says FBI seized his cellphone

Mike Lindell, the controversial CEO of MyPillow, said Tuesday that his cellphone had been seized by the FBI.

September 13, 2022

Biden jets to Delaware to vote in primary

President Biden boarded Air Force One late Tuesday on a last-minute trip to Delaware to vote in the state's Democratic primary.

September 13, 2022

Biden calls ‘cancer moonshot’ opportunity for Americans to rally around shared purpose

President Biden on Monday touted his vision for greatly reducing cancer deaths as a national cause that could inspire divided Americans to rally around a common goal.

September 12, 2022

Poll shows Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan is a liability for candidates

A majority of Americans say they are less likely to vote for candidates who support President Biden's student loan bailout, a new poll shows.

September 12, 2022

Biden to sign executive order to boost domestic biomanufacturing

President Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Monday aimed at boosting domestic biotechnology and reducing U.S. reliance on foreign biomanufacturing.

September 11, 2022

Biden, first lady to attend queen’s Sept. 19 funeral

President Biden formally accepted an invitation on Sunday to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

September 11, 2022

Biden stresses continued threat to democracy in 9/11 anniversary remarks

President Biden on Sunday underscored the duty all Americans have to "preserve and protect our democracy" while paying tribute to those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

September 11, 2022

Biden to attend Queen’s funeral

President Biden on Friday said he plans to attend Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.

September 9, 2022

Biden touts midwest manufacturing jobs at Intel groundbreaking in battleground Ohio

President Biden lauded the return of the "industrial Midwest" as semiconductor giant Intel broke ground on its $20 billion chip manufacturing facility in Ohio.

September 9, 2022