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On the night of President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address, in which the president called for unity against both foreign and domestic threats, why would a fellow Democrat feel compelled to deliver a progressive response?Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke on behalf of not the Democratic Party but the Working Families Party, in…

Biden champions the rights of LGBTQ Americans and calls for the bipartisan Equality Act to pass Congress and to arrive at his desk for signature.Video TranscriptJOE BIDEN: And folks, for LGBTQ-plus Americans, let’s finally get the Bipartisan Equality Act to my desk. The onslaught of state laws targeting transgender Americans and their families is simply…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An eagle tops the U.S. Federal Reserve building’s facade in Washington, July 31, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst By Howard Schneider (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve’s plan to end the loose money policies used to fight the coronavirus pandemic is facing an unexpectedly early test as the Russian invasion of Ukraine poses new…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks from the Senate chamber to his office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 17, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo By David Morgan and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that Republicans largely support President Joe…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Within days, Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved what remained out of the grasp of the European Union for many decades — to jointly buy and send weapons to a war zone — and restored something that was broken for years — trans-Atlantic unity.For years, Putin could sit back and relish in…

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Sunday that “it just makes me ill” to see people inside of the Republican Party praise Russian President Vladimir Putin as he wages war against Ukraine. Romney even went as far as to describe it as “almost treasonous” to side with Putin.”A lot of those people are changing their stripes…

H.R. McMaster, who served as former President Trump’s national security adviser, said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “got a lot more than he bargained for” when he invaded Ukraine last week.Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” McMaster said Ukrainian forces have done a “tremendous” job.”I think Putin got a lot more than he…

The conservative commentator Monica Crowley, a former Trump administration aide, on Saturday said that a presidential run by former first lady Michelle Obama would put Republicans in “a very difficult position.””If they [Democrats] were to run Michelle Obama, that would put us in a very difficult position because they’d reach for a candidate who is…

© Reuters. Swift logo is seen in this illustration taken, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration (Reuters) – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Saturday French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had supported cutting off Russia from the global SWIFT payment system in a phone conversation with him. France was also ready…

Press secretary Jen Psaki said the White House is outraged over reports from Ukrainian officials that staff at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine have been taken hostage by Russian troops.Russian forces took over the remnants of Chernobyl earlier on Thursday during the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The move indicated Russia is likely to assault…