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….

U.S. to Deploy ‘Extraordinary Measures’ to Avoid Default on Jan. 21
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U.S. to Deploy ‘Extraordinary Measures’ to Avoid Default on Jan. 21

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen told Congress on Friday that on Jan. 21 the Treasury Department will have to begin using so-called “extraordinary measures” to prevent the United States from defaulting on its debt. The warning was likely one of Ms. Yellen’s final…

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Is Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges
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Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Is Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Sheng Thao, who was ousted as the mayor of Oakland, Calif., just two months ago amid persistent frustrations with crime, has been indicted on federal corruption charges, prosecutors announced on Friday. Ms. Thao is among four people being charged. The federal indictment also…

Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prices for Weight-Loss Drugs
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Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prices for Weight-Loss Drugs

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines That would slow the growth of the government’s spending on obesity drugs even as more people on Medicare started using them. New prices for the 10 drugs in the first round of price negotiations were announced last summer. Those prices will go into…

‘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…

Eric Adams Heads to Mar-a-Lago to Meet With Trump
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Eric Adams Heads to Mar-a-Lago to Meet With Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, his re-election chances in doubt and a federal indictment looming over him, flew to Florida on Thursday to meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago just four days before the inauguration. The mayor, a Democrat,…

Biden Tightens Cybersecurity Rules, Forcing Trump to Make a Choice
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Biden Tightens Cybersecurity Rules, Forcing Trump to Make a Choice

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Biden issued an executive order on Thursday requiring software companies selling their product to the federal government to prove they included ironclad security features that can thwart Chinese intelligence agencies, Russian ransomware gangs, North Korean cryptocurrency thieves and Iranian spies. But it…

Lee Zeldin, Trump’s E.P.A. Nominee, Is Short on Environmental Experience
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Lee Zeldin, Trump’s E.P.A. Nominee, Is Short on Environmental Experience

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Of all the government agencies that President-elect Donald J. Trump has threatened to shrink or eliminate, perhaps none has been a greater target than the Environmental Protection Agency. During the first Trump administration, the nation’s top regulator of air and water pollution and…