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President Joe Biden's new climate commitment leaves some wondering whether the U.S. will stick to the plan this time.
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The House is expected to take up the legislation next month. President Biden has vowed to sign it when it reaches his desk.
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Participants on the first of a two-day summit included Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, among many others.
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The chaos has disappointed the Biden team, which once argued that the company's one-dose vaccine would be central to turning the tide of the pandemic.
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 Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina will deliver the GOP response following President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress on April 28.
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The action is a stark change in policy at HUD, where then-Secretary Ben Carson once expressed concerns about "big, hairy men" gaining access to women's shelters.
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Global leaders convened in a virtual summit as the new administration tried to reassert U.S. leadership on the climate crisis.
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Biden wants to slash emissions by the end of the decade, but his administration is treading lightly when it comes to the farm industry.
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Biden plans to highlight the push to revamp policing in his speech to Congress next week, while Sen. Tim Scott takes the lead among Republicans in trying to craft a bill.
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 President Biden urged world leaders to act quickly and together to confront the consequences of Earth's changing climate, but notably did not specifically address heavy polluters like China.
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 Leila Navidi/APMinnesota employs roughly 11,000 police officers. Fewer than 250 are Black—or barely 2 percent in a state where 7 percent of the people are Black. Of the 417 law enforcement agencies and departments in the state, only four police chiefs are Black—less than 1 percent.
One of them is Blair Anderson, the chief in St. Cloud, Minnesota, who acknowledges the disparities and his own fear of unknown police officers but also says that he has seen white officers serve communities of color with compassion. It frustrates him, he says through tears as we speak just after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts for the murder of George Floyd, that "they get lumped in with the dumbass who does something so abhorrent that we all get painted with that same broad brush. I see them every day, and they feel like shit. They're like, ‘I didn't kill anybody.' All I've done was try to serve." He adds, "We are aware there are bad people in our profession that don't need to be there. But the vast
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A bipartisan effort to change policing practices collapsed last summer after George Floyd's murder by a white officer. Can a "guilty" verdict and President Biden's call for action resurrect it?
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President Joe Biden's ability to galvanize global momentum faces its first major test this week when he convenes 40 of his foreign counterparts for talks on combating the climate crisis.
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