It was all very polite. Ambassadors, billionaires, a few members of the Biden family and even a former president were all in attendance at the fifth state dinner held by President Biden and Jill Biden, the first lady, since taking office. The gauzy celebration relied heavily on Japanese fans, cherry blossoms and other signs of…
A spirited President Joe Biden delivered a fiery, partisan State of the Union address Thursday, fitting for an election year with enormous stakes in a divided nation. “Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy here at home been under such attack as they are today,” Biden said at the start…
In her rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night, Sen. Katie Britt, Republican of Alabama, told a story about a Mexican woman who was a victim of sex trafficking at age 12 and blamed it on the current administration. “President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace,” she said. The story, while…
President Biden delivered a spirited speech that at times clashed with Republicans and addressed concerns about his age. Source link 2024-03-08 13:35:45 www.nytimes.com
The first thing Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez told donors gathered at a recent wine and cheese fundraiser was the role she played in securing $600 million in federal funding to rebuild one of the region’s main arteries, the aging Route I-5, played bridge. “Bringing this grant home was a dogfight,” said Ms. Perez, 35, a…
Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, who has complained that his state’s higher education “isn’t working,” proposed Friday a sweeping overhaul of the state’s sprawling system that would cut tuition for many students and shift some of the schools’ funding to them Basis would determine performance. The plan would bring 10 of Pennsylvania’s public universities and…
