How Antony Blinken, America’s Top Diplomat, Became the Secretary of War
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How Antony Blinken, America’s Top Diplomat, Became the Secretary of War

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Making his final trip as America’s top diplomat last week, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arrived in Paris, his former hometown, to a hero’s welcome. France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, proclaimed Mr. Blinken “an eminent servant of peace” at a ceremony at the…

Health Secretary Defends Biden’s Covid Vaccine Mandates and Social Media Efforts
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Health Secretary Defends Biden’s Covid Vaccine Mandates and Social Media Efforts

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Xavier Becerra, the man President Biden chose to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, does not want to talk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man President-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen to “go wild” in reshaping it. Nor does he…

What Border Crisis? Mexican Migrant Shelters Are Quiet Ahead of Trump
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What Border Crisis? Mexican Migrant Shelters Are Quiet Ahead of Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Migrants used to gather by the hundreds in encampments in Ciudad Juárez, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, waiting for a chance to cross into the United States. But as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to take office on Monday, few…

Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for Trump
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Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Many Americans who otherwise dislike President-elect Donald J. Trump share his bleak assessment of the country’s problems and support some of his most contentious prescriptions to fix them, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Ipsos. A little more…

Opinion | Trump Brings a Chill to Washington
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Opinion | Trump Brings a Chill to Washington

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For many moons over the Potomac, the protocol for inaugurations has been as immutable and dignified as the words of presidents engraved on their monuments. Leaders and luminaries would put aside their grudges and come together to celebrate democracy. This day marks the…

‘La Migra!’ A Glimpse of Trump’s Promised Deportation Storm
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‘La Migra!’ A Glimpse of Trump’s Promised Deportation Storm

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office on Monday, the U.S. Border Patrol is poised to play a central role in his promised immigration crackdown. On Thursday, Californians got a preview of the tensions likely to play out as undocumented migrants get rounded…

Biden Says Equal Rights Amendment Has Passed, but Does Not Force Certification
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Biden Says Equal Rights Amendment Has Passed, but Does Not Force Certification

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Biden declared on Friday that he believes that the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements of ratification and therefore is now part of the Constitution, but he declined to order the government to finalize the process by officially publishing it. “In…

How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President
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How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The people closest to President Biden were well aware that he had changed. He talked more slowly than he had just a few years before, needed to hoist himself out of his seat in the presidential limousine and walked with a halting gait….

‘I’m Urging You Not to Run’: How Schumer Pushed Biden to Drop Out
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‘I’m Urging You Not to Run’: How Schumer Pushed Biden to Drop Out

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Senator Chuck Schumer of New York sat in the foyer of President Biden’s Rehoboth Beach house, tired and tense. He had not slept the night before, and on the four-hour drive from Brooklyn to Delaware, he had rehearsed out loud what he planned…

Biden to Commute Drug Offender Sentences
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Biden to Commute Drug Offender Sentences

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Biden announced on Friday that he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates serving long prison terms for nonviolent drug offenses, the broadest commutation of individual sentences ever issued by a U.S. president. The commutations are for offenders who received harsher…