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The United States Senate has unanimously passed a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. According to ABC News, the bipartisan legislation was approved Tuesday afternoon, just hours after Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) announced he would drop his objection to the bill. The GOP lawmaker blocked a similar resolution in 2020, citing concerns over the measure’s cost. […]
On the fifth anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting, President Joe Biden pledged to sign a bill designating the site as a national memorial. “Five years ago today in Orlando in the middle of Pride Month, our nation suffered the deadliest attack affecting the LGBTQ+ community in American history, and axat the time, the deadliest mass shooting by […]
At the G-7 summit in southwest England this week, G-7 nation leaders including Joe Biden came together and pledged to donate at least 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to other countries around the world. The Associated Press reports that both Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have committed to leading efforts to help out countries struggling amid […]
Joe Biden has issued an executive order that will invalidate the Trump administration’s efforts to ban TikTok, WeChat, and eight more communications and financial technology apps linked to China. According to CNN, Biden’s new order requests the Commerce Department to conduct a broad review of the applications, with the secretary of commerce, director of national […]
The U.S. managing to meet President Biden’s July 4 vaccine goal is now a “very unlikely” outcome, per a new report detailing the current patterns in vaccination data nationwide. Per the results of a week-long analysis from the Washington Post, the U.S. is currently averaging less than one million shots each day, which marks a decline […]
Joe Biden made history Tuesday by becoming the first sitting president to participate in the commemoration events for the Tulsa Race Massacre. The attack, which took place 100 years ago, is considered one of the bloodiest episodes of racist violence in American history. Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob descended on the affluent […]
President Biden’s latest budget will reportedly not include forgiveness for student loan debt. In previous news on the combination of Biden and student loans, the then-presidential-candidate had campaigned on his support of wiping out $10,000 of undergrad/grad student debt per year of national or community service, up to five years and $50K. After winning the election […]
Joe Biden will mark the anniversary of George Floyd’s death by hosting his family at the White House. Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the meeting while speaking to reporters this week, but declined to provide details on what the administration had planned. “Well, I don’t have anything to preview yet in terms of the President’s schedule next week,” she said. […]
In a meeting with the South Korean President on Friday, President Joe Biden revealed himself to be a lover of K-pop. As reported by Variety, President Biden highlighted the genre in a meeting with Moon Jae-In, calling K-pop fans “universal.” “Our people share a long history. Our soldiers have fought alongside one another. Our scientists […]
CNN reports the White House released the 2020 tax returns of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tax Day, a level of transparency that was abandoned throughout Donald Trump’s one-term in office. Joe and wife Jill Biden, who filed jointly, owed $157,414 in federal income tax after reporting an adjusted gross income of $607,336. They paid $162,063, […]
