President Joe Biden called a wave of new voting restrictions in Republican-led states the “most significant threat to our democracy since the Civil War.”
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President Joe Biden told reporters that the 22.5-year sentence handed down to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was “appropriate.”
“I don’t know all the circumstances that were considered but it seems to me, that under the guidelines, that seems to be appropriate,” Biden said in the Oval Office, where he was meeting with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani.
Chauvin was sentenced on Friday for the murder of George Floyd.
When the jury in Chauvin’s case handed down its verdict in April,
President Joe Biden called a wave of new voting restrictions in Republican-led states the “most significant threat to our democracy since the Civil War.”
President Joe Biden will do a town hall event on CNN next week in Cincinnati, as he passed the six month mark in office.
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will be nominated as U.S. Ambassador to India, as President Joe Biden made official the long-expected choice.
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President Joe Biden outlined a series of steps the administration is taking after the administration fell just short of its goal of having 70% of the country with at least one Covid-19 shot.
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Derek Chauvin’s sentence for the murder of George Floyd, describing it as “appropriate.” Reporters informed the president of the decision on Friday afternoon, asking for his thoughts on the former police officer’s 22-and-a-half-year sentence.“Well, I don’t know all of the circumstances that are considered,” Biden began.
Tina Knowles, Viola Davis, Cher, and more stars have weighed in on the conviction of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who killed George Floyd in the streets of Minneapolis last May. The disgraced officer, 46, was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison on June 25 after being found guilty on all counts, including second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter, back in April.
Rebecca Davis editorChina struck back at the U.S. on Friday for President Joe Biden’s condemnation of its shutdown of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper.
The White House said that the U.S. will fall short of Joe Biden’s goal of having 70% of adults with at least one Covid-19 shot by July 4, as officials expressed difficulty in getting younger people vaccinated.
President Joe Biden is mourning the death of his “beloved” dog Champ.
Joe Biden is mourning the death of his «beloved» dog Champ.The president and First Lady Jill Biden's German Shepherd died peacefully at their home. He was 13.
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have announced the devastating news that their beloved dog Champ has died at the age of 13.
President Joe Biden marked a milestone in combatting Covid-19 on Friday, with 300 shots administered within his 150 days in office.
Photos have been released from the White House’s East Room, where President Joe Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday.
passed the House on Wednesday and the Senate on Tuesday. Fourteen Republicans opposed the legislation in the House. «As we establish Juneteenth as our newest national holiday, let us be clear about what happened on June 19, 1865, the day we call Juneteenth,» Harris said, speaking of how the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, became free. «They learned that they were free.