‘The Interview’: Antony Blinken Insists He and Biden Made the Right Calls
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‘The Interview’: Antony Blinken Insists He and Biden Made the Right Calls

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines – Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. – Four years ago, President Biden came into office with the world still wracked by the coronavirus pandemic, and the biggest global challenge was to save lives and get economies back on their…

Biden to Dole Out 19 Medals of Freedom, and One Unmistakable Message
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Biden to Dole Out 19 Medals of Freedom, and One Unmistakable Message

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines With 16 days left in a political career that spanned a half-century, President Biden is expected on Saturday to confer one of the nation’s highest honors on core members of the political, financial and celebrity establishment of which he has long been a…

State Dept. Tells Congress It Plans to Send  Billion in Arms to Israel
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State Dept. Tells Congress It Plans to Send $8 Billion in Arms to Israel

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The State Department has told Congress that it intends to approve $8 billion in purchases of U.S.-made arms by Israel, the department’s office in charge of arms transfers said on Friday. It could be the final set of arms transfers to Israel by…

Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Jeff Bezos Cartoon Is Killed
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Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Jeff Bezos Cartoon Is Killed

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald J. Trump. In a…

Johnson’s Reward as Speaker: An Impossible Job Delivering for Trump
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Johnson’s Reward as Speaker: An Impossible Job Delivering for Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Just minutes after Speaker Mike Johnson could exhale, having put down a short-lived conservative revolt and won re-election to his post on Friday, hard-right lawmakers sent him a letter. It was not congratulatory. They had only voted for him, they wrote, “because of…

Justice Dept. Reaches Deal to Monitor Troubled Atlanta Jail
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Justice Dept. Reaches Deal to Monitor Troubled Atlanta Jail

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Justice Department has struck a deal with officials in Fulton County, Georgia, to appoint a monitor to try to ensure its troubled jail addresses long-running problems with safety, staffing and sanitation. The tentative agreement, which was announced Friday, must still be approved…