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Amid continued discussions surrounding post-release lyrical and compositional tweaks to what will surely go down as one of the biggest and most acclaimed albums of the year (i.e. Beyoncé’s Renaissance), Monica Lewinsky has entered the conversation. On Monday, Lewinsky tweeted out a Variety article focused on a lyric from the album some had considered to […]
One month since a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a landmark gun control bill into law. “Time is of the essence. Lives will be saved,” Biden said in an address to the nation. “From Columbine to Sandy Hook to Charleston, […]
A bipartisan group of senators have announced a new framework for gun reform legislation, which includes a major beef-up of school security. The legislation would include, “needed mental health resources, [improved] school safety and support for students,” and would help “ensure dangerous criminals and those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can’t purchase weapons,” the senators said in […]
The risk for monkeypox in the U.S. is low, according to a White House official. Dr. Raj Panjabi, Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the National Security Council, told NPR that the generally mild viral infection that causes flu-like symptoms has not been severe in the 10 or so assumed cases seen in the […]
The nation’s capital is abuzz this weekend, as some of the biggest names in politics, media, and entertainment gathered for the 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The annual event—hosted Hosted by the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA)—returned to D.C. Saturday night after a two-year hiatus due to the global pandemic. Launched in 1921, the black-tie dinner aims […]
Jill Biden initially opposed her husband picking Kamala Harris as his running mate, according to an excerpt from the new book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future, written by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns. Per the New York Post, the book quotes Dr. Biden as saying, “There are millions of people in […]
The presidential campaign of Donald Trump has been ordered by a court arbitrator to pay former Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault Newman 1.3 million in legal fees, The New York Times reports. Trump’s team sued Manigault Newman over her book “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.” The memoir, in which she called Trump “a racist,” documented Manigault Newman’s time working for the […]
The U.S. is expected to announce plans to welcome as many as 100,000 people from Ukraine who are fleeing the country amid Russia’s invasion. The Biden administration, per a source cited in an NBC News report, will allow for entry via a number of options, including the Refugee Admissions Program. Other avenues mentioned in the […]
President Joe Biden is soon set to sign an executive order on cryptocurrency, multiple reports claimed this week. According to Bloomberg, the order—which the publication’s sources said is expected to be signed by Biden this week—will see federal agencies being directed to examine possible regulatory changes in the crypto space. Notably, the order has been “in the works” […]
The White House will distribute hundreds of millions of free N95 masks, marking the implementation of something that most certainly should have occurred much earlier in the (still ongoing) pandemic. “This is the largest deployment of personal protective equipment in U.S. history,” a White House official was quoted as saying in a report from Reuters […]
