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18.05.2023 / 13:03

World leaders in Japan for G-7 meeting, with Ukraine war high on agenda

FILE - US President Joe Biden (L) and Fumio Kishida, Japans prime minister, shake hands prior to a bilateral meeting ahead of the Group of Seven (G7) leaders summit on May 18, 2023 in Hiroshima, Japan. The G7 summit will be held in Hiroshima from 19- HIROSHIMA, Japan - World leaders landed Thursday for a Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with Russia’s war in Ukraine expected to be high on the agenda.Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida kicked off his summit diplomacy by meeting with U.S.

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Debt ceiling talks progress as Biden, McCarthy name top negotiators

an encouraging new phase Tuesday as President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy named top emissaries to negotiate a deal to avert an unprecedented national default. Biden cut short an upcoming overseas trip in hopes of closing an agreement before a June 1 deadline.The fresh set of negotiators means discussions are now largely narrowed to what the White House and McCarthy will accept in order to allow lawmakers to raise the debt limit in the coming days.

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Debt ceiling: Biden, congressional leaders to meet as McCarthy pushes for faster deal

FILE - U.S. President Joe Biden gives remarks to reporters alongside Spains Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez before a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on May 12, 2023 in Washington, DC.

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Biden endorses Democrat in special election with Pennsylvania House control at stake

US President Joe Biden speaks during an event at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, US, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Biden and congressional Republicans made little tangible progress Tuesday toward averting a first-ever US defau HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Democrat running for a vacant seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives received President Joe Biden's endorsement Monday in a race likely to determine control of the legislative chamber, with implications for abortion rights, the 2024 presidential contest and Gov.

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Biden likely to resume debt limit talks on Tuesday

President Joe Biden and congressional leaders will likely resume talks on Tuesday at the White House over the debt limit, the president said Sunday, as the nation continues to edge closer to its legal borrowing authority with no agreement in sight.The meeting was initially supposed to be Friday, but was abruptly postponed so staff-level talks could continue before Biden and the four congressional leaders huddled for a second time. Administration and congressional officials said Sunday that a meeting has not been finalized, although Tuesday was the likeliest option as Biden returns to Washington on Monday and is scheduled to leave for the Group of 7 summit in Japan on Wednesday.Biden did not detail much progress in the talks, but said he remained hopeful that an agreement could be reached with Republicans to avoid what would be an unprecedented debt default, which could trigger a financial catastrophe."I remain optimistic because I’m a congenital optimist," Biden told reporters while out for a bike ride in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

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Buffalo remembers supermarket mass shooting victims 1 year after massacre

BUFFALO, N.Y. - The city of Buffalo will pause Sunday to mark the passing of one year since a gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others in a racist attack that targeted Black people at a city supermarket.A moment of silence followed by the chiming of church bells at 2:28 p.m. will honor victims of the massacre at the Tops Friendly Market on May 14, 2022."The racially motivated mass shooting shook our community to its core.

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Debt ceiling standoff: Spending on Covid gives way to new focus on deficit

debt ceiling standoff: The ambitious COVID-19 era of government spending to cope with the pandemic and rebuild is giving way to a new focus on tailored investments and stemming deficits. President Joe Biden has said recouping unspent coronavirus money is “on the table" in budget talks with Congress. While the White House has threatened to veto Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill with its “devastating cuts" to federal programs, the administration has signaled a willingness to consider other budget caps.

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Migrants to US face new border reality as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire

Title 42 expired, migrants along the border were still wading into the Rio Grande to take their chances getting into the country, defying officials shouting for them to turn back. Others hunched over cellphones trying to access an appointment app, a centerpiece of the new measures, while others with appointments walked across a bridge hoping for a new life. And lawsuits sought to stop some of the measures.

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VP Kamala Harris to become 1st woman to deliver West Point commencement speech

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris will be the first woman to deliver a commencement speech at a West Point graduation ceremony, White House officials said.Harris will deliver the keynote address on May 27 at the U.S. Military Academy for the Class of 2023."We are honored to have the Vice President as our commencement speaker," Lt.

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Kamala Harris Reportedly Postpones MTV Special On Mental Health Over Hollywood Writers’ Strike

The Hollywood writers’ strike that’s snarling the television and movie industries has now scrambled the White House schedule.

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What is Title 42 and how has the US used it to curb migration?

WASHINGTON - This week marks the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly expel migrants at the southern border for the last three years.The restrictions are often referred to as Title 42, because the authority comes from Title 42 of a 1944 public health law that allows curbs on migration in the name of protecting public health.The end of Title 42's use has raised questions about what will happen with migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Biden administration is preparing for an increase in migrants.A look at what Title 42 is and why it matters:In March 2020, the U.S.

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Joe Biden revokes COVID vaccination requirements for international visitors and federal employees

Joe Biden on Tuesday revoked requirements that most international visitors to the United States be vaccinated against COVID-19 as well as similar rules for federal employees and contractors. Biden's orders take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET May 12 with the expiration of the U.S.

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Covid-19 is no longer global health emergency - WHO

Covid-19 no longer represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization has said, a major step towards the end of the pandemic that has killed more than 6.9 million people, disrupted the global economy and ravaged communities.

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King Charles III coronation: Watch live coverage of this historic event

LONDON - After months of anticipation, the coronation of King Charles III is finally set to happen Saturday. The momentous event, which hasn’t taken place in 70 years, is expected to be one of the largest and most elaborate royal ceremonies in recent history, drawing in crowds from all around the world. The coronation of King Charles has been in the works for several years, with preparations beginning well before the passing of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died last September.According to palace officials, the coronation will be held on May 6, 2023 at Westminster Abbey in London. The ceremony will be presided over by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who will crown King Charles with the famous St.

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COVID Is No Longer a Global Health Emergency, World Health Organization Says

COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, the World Health Organization said Friday, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.«It's with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency,» WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.«That does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health threat,» he said, adding he wouldn't hesitate to reconvene experts to reassess the situation should COVID-19 «put our world in peril.»The U.N. health agency says that thousands of people are still dying from the virus every week, and there have been recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. COVID was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S.

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Covid-19 is no longer global health emergency - WHO

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Trudeau tells Poilievre to ‘wake up,’ urges Liberal convention to reject populism

Canadians chose hope over fear and anger in 2015 and they will be faced with that choice again the next time they go to the polls, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday as he delivered an opening night keynote speech to Liberal faithful at the party’s policy convention in Ottawa.

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Muslim NJ mayor blocked from White House decries 'watch list'

PROSPECT PARK, N.J. - Prospect Park, New Jersey Mayor Mohamed Khairullah said he was not allowed to attend a celebration with President Joe Biden at the White House to belatedly mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Mayor Khairullah is now calling for the administration to end the federal "watch list" he said illegally targets Muslims and others."I have no reason to believe I am an unsafe person to any elected official," Khairullah said.During a news conference held Tuesday in South Plainfield by the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ), Mayor Khairullah and several other speakers condemned the list as illegal, discriminatory and unconstitutional."Our crimes are our names, ethnicities and religion," Khairullah said. "I call on President Biden to correct the injustices of the previous administrations by disbanding this secret list ill-advised racist policies." They also called on the U.S.

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US to end international travellers' vaccine requirement

The White House has announced an end to Covid-19 vaccine requirements for travellers to the United States and for government employees across the world's biggest economy.

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President Joe Biden expected to announce 2024 reelection campaign next week

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will formally announce his 2024 reelection campaign as soon as next week, three people briefed on the discussions said Thursday.The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said they were not aware that a final decision on timing had been made, but that Biden had been eyeing Tuesday, April 25, four years to the day since the Democrat entered the 2020 race.

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Toddler crawls through White House fence

WASHINGTON - A toddler on Tuesday earned the title of one of the tiniest White House intruders after he squeezed through the metal fencing on the north side of the executive mansion.U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers, who are responsible for security at the White House, walked across the North Lawn to retrieve the tot and reunite him with his parents on Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Biden's latest executive order to improve access to child care

US President Joe Biden speaks to the crowd during a celebration event at St. Muredachs Cathedral on April 14, 2023 in Ballina, Ireland.

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GOP leader Mitch McConnell returns to Senate after head injury

WASHINGTON - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is back at work in the U.S. Capitol on Monday, almost six weeks after a fall at a Washington-area hotel and extended treatment for a concussion.The longtime Kentucky senator, 81, has been recovering at home since he was released from a rehabilitation facility March 25.

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House Speaker McCarthy rounds 100 days in office, faces tough road ahead

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 24: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during a news conference outside of his office at the U.S. Capitol on January 24, 2023 in Washington, DC.

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Biden urges Northern Ireland to sustain peace, reap gains

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - APRIL 12: President Joe Biden is pictured at Ulster University on April 12, 2023 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. US President Joe Biden spends the day in Belfast meeting with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and delivering a sp BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Northern Ireland must "not go back" to the violence that scarred it for years before a U.S.-brokered peace deal 25 years ago, nudging politicians to resolve a political crisis that has left this part of the United Kingdom without a functioning government.Speaking of the economic growth Northern Ireland has experienced since the Good Friday Agreement ended 30 years of sectarian bloodshed, Biden said: "It’s up to us to keep this going."On his first presidential visit to Northern Ireland, Biden dangled the prospect of more American investment to help fuel economic growth — especially if Belfast’s fractious politicians resolve a stalemate that has put their government on pause."The simple truth is that peace and economic opportunity go together," Biden said during a speech at Ulster University’s new campus in Belfast.

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US ends Covid-19 emergency status

US President Joe Biden has officially ended the Covid national health emergency that for more than three years underpinned extraordinary efforts to provide care for a country where more than a million people died from the disease.

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US President Joe Biden signs legislation ending Covid national emergency

Also Read: Biden won't veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency The Covid-19 virus was declared a public health emergency by the health secretary of the Trump administration on 31 January 2020, whereas former US President Donald Trump declared it a national emergency in March of that year. President Joe Biden has broadened the use of emergency powers since he took office in January 2021. The national emergency response to covid has allowed the U.S.

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Expelled Tennessee lawmakers may get their seats back

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Two former Black Democratic lawmakers who were expelled by Republican colleagues in Tennessee say they want to be reappointed, then elected back to their seats, following their ouster for a protest on the House floor urging passage of gun-control measures in the wake of a deadly school shooting.Nashville's metro council is likely to reappoint Justin Jones to the seat during a specially called Monday meeting. The Shelby County Commission plans to announce soon when it will meet to fill the vacancy left by Justin Pearson's expulsion. Likewise, commissioners can reinstall Pearson, who is from Memphis.Both former lawmakers told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that they want to return to their positions as lawmakers.

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US review on chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan largely blames Trump administration

WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. review led by the National Security Council of the chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S.

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Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. challenging Biden in 2024

File: Attorney Robert Kennedy Jr. speaks as hundreds gather in Times Square to protest vaccination mandate during a "Freedom Rally" in New York City on October 16, 2021.

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Biden to visit Mississippi town ravaged by deadly tornado

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Friday will visit a Mississippi town ravaged by a deadly tornado even as a new series of severe storms threatens to rip across the Midwest and the South.Last week's twister destroyed roughly 300 homes and businesses in Rolling Fork and the nearby town of Silver City, leaving mounds of wreckage full of lumber, bricks and twisted metal. Hundreds of additional structures were badly damaged. The death toll in Mississippi stood at 21, based on deaths confirmed by coroners.

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Can Donald Trump still run for president despite indictment?

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, a person who has engaged in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States, cannot hold office unless overcome with a two-thirds vote from Congress. Minutes after the indictment was announced Thursday, Trump released a lengthy statement calling it the next step in a campaign from the left "to destroy the Make America Great Again movement.""The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable - indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant Election Interference," Trump's statement said.Trump accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of "doing Joe Biden’s dirty work, ignoring the murders and burglaries and assaults he should be focused on."Alina Habba, an attorney for Trump, said the former president is a victim "of a corrupt and distorted version of the American justice system and history. He will be vindicated."An indictment wouldn’t stop Trump from continuing his campaign.

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Trump releases statement after being indicted by NY grand jury

WASHINGTON - In the first ever criminal case against a former president, Donald Trump has been indicted on charges involving payments made during his 2016 campaign to quash claims of two extramarital affairs.Minutes after the indictment was announced Thursday, Trump released a lengthy statement calling it the next step in a "witch-hunt to destroy the Make America Great Again movement.""The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable - indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant Election Interference," Trump's statement said.Trump accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of "doing Joe Biden’s dirty work, ignoring the murders and burglaries and assaults he should be focused on."Alina Habba, an attorney for Trump, said the former president is a victim "of a corrupt and distorted version of the American justice system and history. He will be vindicated."Former President Donald Trump has been indicted, possibly as part of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office's years-long investigation into hush-money payments.

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Biden won't veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency

Also Read: ‘I like ice cream’: Joe Biden's first statement on US school shooting | Watch Just weeks ago, Biden stunned many fellow Democrats when he declined to veto a Republican-led bill to upend a new criminal code for the District of Columbia he and others in the president's party opposed, allowing the GOP's tough-on-crime push into the local government to become law. Republicans celebrated the turn of events Wednesday as a sign of their newfound influence in divided Washington, while Democrats quietly complained that the Biden administration had shifted its views.

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Capitol riot: FBI informant testifies for Proud Boys defense

WASHINGTON - An FBI informant who marched to the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members on Jan.

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Nauseatingly nice ‘Ted Lasso’ doesn’t work without COVID

hit Apple TV+ comedy series about a doofy college football coach who becomes an unlikely Premier League soccer club manager in the UK debuted during the first, trying year of the pandemic — in August 2020. And the initially excellent show, starring Jason Sudeikis, proved a cathartic break from the onslaught of bleak news and our 3 a.m.

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Mississippi tornado: Biden declares emergency for storm-battered towns

President Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration for Mississippi early Sunday, making federal funding available to the areas hardest hit Friday night by a deadly tornado that ripped through the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions of the U.S.At least 25 people were killed and dozens of others were injured in Mississippi as the massive storm ripped through several towns on its hour-long path. One man was killed after his trailer home flipped several times in Alabama.Search and recovery crews on Sunday resumed the daunting task of digging through the debris of flattened and battered homes, commercial buildings and municipal offices after hundreds of people were displaced, even as the National Weather Service warned of a risk of more severe weather Sunday — including high winds, large hail and possible tornadoes — in eastern Louisiana, south central Mississippi and south central Alabama.A view of damage after a tornado tore through the US state of Mississippi, United States on March 25, 2023.

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Roxham Road is now closed. Advocates call the move ‘rushed,’ ‘inhumane’

The closure of the Roxham Road crossing at the Canada-U.S. border was “rushed” and will only further endanger the lives of asylum seekers, immigration advocates say.

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Biden’s chocolate gift an ‘unbelievable’ moment for its Syrian-Canadian creator

Joe Biden’s visit to Canada on Friday involving the gifting of a chocolate bar meant so much more to the Syrian-Canadian whose company created the treat.Tareq Hadhad, CEO of Peace By Chocolate in Antigonish, N.S., told Global News he was in disbelief after watching Green Party Leader Elizabeth May give Biden a “Peace Bar” during a welcoming ceremony in Ottawa.“This is absolutely unbelievable. Totally unbelievable,” said Hadhad, who was invited to Friday night’s state dinner at the Ottawa Aviation Museum as a guest of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.“This is a moment for the history books for our family and we are incredibly honoured.” Read more: Dinner with the Bidens: What’s cooking as U.S.

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Major Canada-U.S. border rules change to take effect within hours

Canada and the United States have agreed to implement the Safe Third Country Agreement across the entire shared land border, in an effort to deter irregular migrant crossings at unofficial entryways like Roxham Road.

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Dinner with the Bidens: What’s cooking as U.S. president visits Canada

Joe Biden is getting a coast-to-coast taste of Canada on his first official visit as U.S. president.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie will host a dinner Friday night in honour of the Bidens at the Ottawa Aviation Museum that will also feature a number of musical performances.Before they get to the dinner, Biden will spend the day in meetings with Trudeau and senior Canadian officials, with his speech to Parliament at 2 p.m.

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Pennsylvania woman charged in Pelosi laptop theft sentenced to prison

Riley June Williams, 22, of Harrisburg, is accused of theft, obstruction and trespassing, as well as violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. WASHINGTON - A Pennsylvania woman linked to a far-right extremist movement was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison for storming the U.S.

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Biden signs law declassifying US intel on Covid origin

US President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

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Springsteen, Louis-Dreyfus, Kaling among 22 honored by Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden welcomed a high-wattage collection of singers, authors, artists and humanitarians to the White House on Tuesday to present them with medals — and then stole the show himself with a quip about seeking reelection.Bruce Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling and Gladys Knight were among the 22 people and organizations being honored. When author Colson Whitehead’s award was announced, Biden noted that the author of "The Underground Railroad" and "The Nickel Boys" has already won back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes.The president, who is expected to announce for reelection this spring, quickly picked up on that and joked that he was looking "for a back-to-back myself," drawing a laugh from the audience.It was a feel-good event in the East Room, as the honorees stepped forward to receive their awards one by one.

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Biden designating national monuments in Nevada, Texas

Pastor Moses Borjas of Por La Creación speaks as Castner Range activists deliver over 137,000 petitions calling on President Biden to designate Castner Range the next national monument at the Department of Interior on July 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is establishing national monuments in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary in U.S.

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Jason Sudeikis slammed for preaching on mental health at White House

Jason Sudeikis is coming under fire for preaching about mental health less than a year after publicly humiliating his ex-fiancée Olivia Wilde by having his lawyers serve her custody papers while on stage in front of industry executives. Sudeikis, 47, along with other Ted Lasso cast members, were meeting with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden to talk about how mental health contributes to overall well-being. The comedian said he wanted to encourage people, even in politically divided Washington DC, to make it a point to check in often with friends, family and co-workers to 'ask how they're doing, and listen, sincerely.

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Biden signs bill to declassify information on COVID-19 origins

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill Monday that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19 more than three years after the start of the pandemic.The legislation, which passed both the House and Senate without dissent, directs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. It cites "potential links" between the research that was done there and the outbreak of COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

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Biden signs law declassifying US intel on Covid origin

'We need to get to the bottom of Covid-19's origins..., including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,' Biden said in a statement US President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. "We need to get to the bottom of Covid-19's origins..., including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology," Biden said in a statement. "In implementing this legislation, my administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible," he added.

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