President Biden took the annual White House press corps’ gala as an opportunity to make light of the criticism he has faced in his 18 months in office.
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In convention speech, LePage seeks to tie Mills to pandemic, Biden
The former governor, running for a third, non-consecutive term, spoke for 35 minutes at the Republican Convention on Saturday.
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Maine Republicans adopt platform to ban sexually based material, transgender identity in schools
The Maine Republican Party kicked off its two-day convention in Augusta by also rejecting an effort to remove the party’s one woman-one man definition of marriage.
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Biden taking ‘hard look’ at student loan forgiveness
The president says he’s considering forgiving some federal student debt, a step that would help him fulfill a campaign promise and provide relief to borrowers.
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Drop in U.S. GDP challenges Biden’s pitch to voters about the economy
The drop clearly put the president on the defensive after he has said repeatedly that the booming job market means the U.S. can withstand inflation at a 40-year high.
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Russia releases U.S. Marine veteran as part of prisoner exchange
The U.S. returned Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot who’d been serving a 20-year federal prison sentence in Connecticut for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the U.S.
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Sen. Collins says she’d support reinstatement of Trump’s Twitter account
Collins’ comments come a day after Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who describes himself as a ‘free-speech absolutist,’ reached an agreement to purchase Twitter for $44 billion.
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Supreme Court could free Biden to end Trump asylum border policy
The heart of the fight is whether, with far less detention capacity than needed, immigration authorities must send people to Mexico or have the discretion to release asylum-seekers into the United States while they await their hearings.
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U.S. presses allies to send more weapons to Ukraine over fear of an expanding war
Russian advances and heavy fighting were reported in the Donbas, with one town, Kreminna, apparently falling, while in the gutted southern city of Mariupol, Russia hit the Azovstal steel plant with 35 airstrikes over 24 hours.
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House Republican leader downplays secretly recorded remarks about Trump
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy initially called the report – before the recording surfaced – ‘totally false and wrong.’