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May

2023

Biden aims darts at Fox News, Donald Trump at correspondents’ dinner

U.S. President Joe Biden, in a possible preview of a 2024 presidential campaign theme, attacked news outlets he said used "lies told for profit and power" to stir up hatred, as he coupled his remarks with pointed jokes about Fox News. Speaking at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Biden referred to "truth buried by lies," in an apparent reference to false conspiracy theories that his 2020 election win was the result of massive voter fraud. "Lies told for profit and power. Lies of conspiracy and malice repeated over and over again designed to generate a cycle of anger…

Dec

2022

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Biden’s pardons show focus on easing drug punishments, and women’s rights

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TREVOR HUNNICUTT U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned six people who have already served time for crimes, including five convicted of drug or alcohol-related offences and a woman who killed her allegedly abusive husband nearly five decades ago. The latest pardons showed Biden nudging U.S. criminal justice policy away from the war-on-drugs ethos that he and other liberal lawmakers once championed. Now gearing up for a possible re-election bid in 2024, the Democratic president faces pressure to show progress on racial and criminal justice issues. The United States has less than 5% of the world's population but a fifth of its…

Nov

2022

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Biden says Twitter spews lies across the world

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U.S. President Joe Biden said that Elon Musk had purchased a social media platform in Twitter that spews lies across the world. Twitter laid off half its workforce on Friday but said cuts were smaller in the team responsible for preventing the spread of misinformation, as advertisers pulled spending amid concerns about content moderation. Biden said at a fundraiser: "And now what are we all worried about: Elon Musk goes out and buys an outfit that sends - that spews lies all across the world... There’s no editors anymore in America. There’s no editors. How do we expect kids to be…

Jun

2021

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In Memorial Day speech, Biden defends ‘imperfect’ democracy

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ANDREA SHALAL U.S. President Joe Biden used his Memorial Day speech to defend America's "imperfect" democracy, calling for more work to deliver the promise of what he said remained "the greatest experiment" in world history. In a speech at Arlington National Cemetery touching on voting rights, freedom of speech and efforts to rectify persistent economic and racial disparities, Biden warned that democracy was "in peril" in the United States and around the world in the face of autocratic forces he did not identify. "Democracy is more than a form of government, it's a way of being, a way of seeing…

Jan

2021

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Joe Biden sworn in as 46th U.S. president

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TREVOR HUNNICUTT, PATRICIA ZENGERLE and JARRETT RENSHAW DEMOCRAT Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States tonight, assuming the helm of a country reeling from deep political divides, a battered economy and a raging coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans. With his hand on an heirloom Bible that has been in his family for more than a century, Biden took the presidential oath of office administered by U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts just after noon (1700 GMT), vowing to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Biden, 78, became the oldest U.S.…