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All Federal Workers Must Get Vaccinations
All Federal
Workers 
Must Get
Vaccinations
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Sep 9, 2021 2:23 PM CDT

All Federal Workers Must Get Vaccinations

President Biden putting new rules into effect

(Newser) - The details of an aggressive new push by the White House on COVID are emerging, with new rules affecting federal employees, larger businesses, and health care workers.
  • Federal workers: Biden will sign an executive order requiring all of the estimated 2.1 million federal employees to get their shots, reports
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Trump Is Calling Families of Troops Killed in Kabul

'He was awesome,' says father of one Marine

(Newser) - Some of the families of the 13 American service members killed in a blast at Kabul's airport last month have refused to speak to President Biden—but they have welcomed calls from former President Trump. Trump has reached out to several families over the last week and some of...

Biden Has New Plans to Take on COVID

Six-step strategy likely to put pressure on the unvaccinated

(Newser) - At the start of summer, President Biden was heralding a season of "freedom" from coronavirus. At its end, he'll unveil a "robust plan to stop the spread of the delta variant and boost covid-19 vaccinations," as daily case numbers and the seven-day average of deaths are...

Biden Surveys Hurricane Damage in NY, NJ

Climate change is 'everybody's crisis,' he says

(Newser) - President Biden declared climate change has become "everybody's crisis" on Tuesday as he toured neighborhoods flooded by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, warning it's time for America to get serious about the "code red" danger or face ever worse loss of life and property. Biden spoke...

Afghanistan, Virus Take Toll on Biden's Ratings

For the first time, president's approval numbers fall below 50%

(Newser) - The delta variant of the coronavirus appears to be having an effect on President Biden's popularity. His overall approval rating in a Washington Post-ABC News poll, taken early last week, fell to 44% from 50% from June, while his disapproval rating hit 51%. At the same time, concern about...

Three Presidents to Mark Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks

Biden will go to each site, while Obama and Bush also plan to take part in commemorations

(Newser) - President Biden will visit all three 9/11 memorial sites to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and pay his respects to the nearly 3,000 people killed that day. Biden will visit Ground Zero in New York City, the Pentagon, and the memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where...

Biden Releases 9/11 Files After Dispute With Families

Victims' relatives are looking for a connection between the attack and the Saudi government

(Newser) - President Biden signed an executive order Friday directing the declassification of certain documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a supportive gesture to victims' families who have long sought the records in hopes of implicating the Saudi government. The order, coming just before the 20th anniversary of the...

Biden Defends Abortion Rights as Texas Limits Become Law

With the Supreme Court watching from the sidelines, Democrats renew talk of adding members

(Newser) - On the day that new restrictions became law in Texas, President Biden promised to "protect and defend" a woman's right to an abortion. "This extreme Texas law blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade and upheld as precedent for nearly half a century,"...

McConnell: 'There Isn't Going to Be an Impeachment'

'The way these behaviors get adjusted in this country is at the ballot box'

(Newser) - Some Republicans are calling for President Biden to be impeached over his handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan—but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says it's not going to happen. For starters, he noted at an event in Kentucky on Wednesday, Republicans do not control Congress. "The president...

He Helped Rescue Biden in 2008. Now He's Stuck in Afghanistan

Interpreter raced to save Biden after then-senator's helicopter made emergency landing

(Newser) - Update: After the Wall Street Journal published the story of an Afghan interpreter who helped get then-Sen. Joe Biden out of Afghanistan in 2008, White House officials pledged to now get the interpreter out too. Politico quotes White House chief of staff Ron Klain as saying that he "read...

Biden: 'I Was Not Going to Extend a Forever Exit'

He calls airlift an 'extraordinary success'

(Newser) - Addressing the nation, a defensive President Biden on Tuesday called the US military airlift to extract more than 120,000 Afghans, Americans, and other allies to end a 20-year war an "extraordinary success," though more than 100 Americans and thousands of Afghans looking to leave remain in the...

A Defense of Biden&#39;s Moves on Afghanistan
Biden's Critics Are
Wrong on Afghanistan
OPINION
Aug 30, 2021 2:41 PM CDT

Biden's Critics Are Wrong on Afghanistan

In the 'Atlantic,' David Rothkopf writes that the president deserves credit instead of blame

(Newser) - President Biden has been on the receiving end of nearly universal criticism over his handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, but David Rothkopf sounds a note contrary to all that in the Atlantic . Biden, he writes in his essay, "deserves credit, not blame." Biden's three predecessors all...

Bidens Mourn With Families at Dover
Bidens Mourn With
Families at Dover 
updated
Aug 29, 2021 1:30 PM CDT

Bidens Mourn With Families at Dover

President meets with troops' families privately

(Newser) - President Biden and his wife, Jill, traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Sunday to honor the 13 US troops killed in the Kabul airport bombing last week. The Bidens met privately with the troops' families, CNN reports, then watched the transfer of the troops' remains from the...

Biden Promises More Attacks on ISIS
Biden Promises More
Attacks on ISIS
Aug 28, 2021 5:45 PM CDT

Biden Promises More Attacks on ISIS

Britain ends Kabul evacuations, saying it couldn't 'bring everybody out'

(Newser) - There will be more violence in Afghanistan before US forces are out, President Biden said Saturday. In a statement, Biden said that the situation there remains dangerous and that another terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul is "highly likely" in the next day or two, the Washington Post ...

Biden Tells Attackers: 'We Will Hunt You Down'

President suggests he might send more troops to Afghanistan

(Newser) - In addressing the nation on Thursday, President Biden expressed his resolve to not let the airport attack in Afghanistan stop evacuations even as US troops track down and punish the forces responsible. "To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this:...

Facing Death, Evacuation Race on for Afghan Women Judges

Tens of thousands could be left behind in Kabul as Taliban says no more Afghans can evacuate

(Newser) - A retired US judge working 20 hours a day to evacuate some 250 female judges and their families from Afghanistan says her network is quickly running out of time. President Biden said Tuesday that he would stick to the Aug. 31 deadline for removing Americans and endangered Afghans from the...

Results Are In on Biden's COVID Origin Report

Intel assessment is inconclusive on whether virus came from lab or jumped from animal to human

(Newser) - In June, Director of National Intelligence chief Avril Haines warned that sussing out the "smoking gun" on the origins of the novel coronavirus might not ever happen. Now, a report commissioned by President Biden three months ago from the intelligence community to figure out that mystery has brought her...

Biden: We're Sticking to Aug. 31 Afghanistan Deadline

He warns of terror attacks if evacuation mission extends past withdrawal date

(Newser) - President Biden declared Tuesday he is sticking to his Aug. 31 deadline for completing a risky airlift of Americans, endangered Afghans and others seeking to escape Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The decision defies allied leaders who want to give the evacuation more time and opens Biden to criticism that he caved to...

This Is Going to Be a Tough Week for Biden

Democratic standoff threatens his agenda

(Newser) - Last week, Joe Biden faced the biggest crisis of his presidency so far after the collapse of Afghanistan's government and military—and this week is unlikely to be any easier. Top administration officials will face tough questions about Afghanistan in congressional hearings , and a standoff has developed among House...

Latest Polls Are Not Good News for Biden

His approval rating has hit its lowest point since he took office

(Newser) - Two new polls show President Biden's approval rating declining as COVID surges and bad news related to Afghanistan abounds:
  • NBC News: The poll found Biden's approval rating hit 49%, the first time it has dipped below 50%, and his disapproval rating hit 48%. In April, NBC's polling
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