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“Gun violence in this country is an epidemic,” President Biden says. “And it’s an international embarrassment.”
A behind-the-scenes look at the decision-making that led to Biden health officials pausing Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, including a Monday night Zoom call. @lauriemcginley2 @bylenasun @FrancesSSellers
Close to 2,500 American troops have died over the past 20 years in Afghanistan, serving their country in the nation’s longest war. Close to 2,500 Americans have died from covid over just the past four days, in a pandemic of unimaginable proportions.
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President Trump, who has said Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States and Ted Cruz’s father was behind JFK assassination, says laws should make it harder to say things that are false.
NEW: The lawyer who oversaw the vetting of Joe Biden for Obama tells us: “This kind of complaint — not just Tara Reade, but any kind of complaint about Senator Biden on sexual harassment — never came up...we found no such accusation.”
Police have charged Anthony Brennan III, age 60 of Kensington, Maryland, with three counts of second-degree assault for the incident on the Capital Crescent Trail.
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