Vice President Kamala Harris is standing by her previous comments defending President Joe Biden’s mental acuity — even now as she’s running to replace him. The vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate was asked by CNN whether she has any regrets about defending Biden’s mental acuity amid a firestorm of skepticism following the first…
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News From debate catastrophe to standing down: Biden’s road to the exit
What started as a bad debate ended with the suspension of an incumbent’s presidential campaign. On Sunday, The president officially dropped out of the 2024 presidential race against former President Donald Trump. Here is a timeline of the downfall of Biden’s re-election campaign: THE DEBATE Biden participated in the first presidential debate against former President…
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News Abortion Ruling Is on Standing, Not Safety or Morality
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision ensuring access to an abortion pill took no position on its safety or morality. Instead, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, writing for the court, focused entirely on standing. That is the legal doctrine that requires plaintiffs to show that they have suffered direct and concrete injuries in order to sue. Justice…
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News Chicago crowd gives Chennedy Carter standing ovation in first game since hard foul on Caitlin Clark
Chennedy Carter has received a lot of criticism in the last few days after a hard foul on Caitlin Clark, but she found support on Tuesday. Carter gave Clark a hard hip-check in the third quarter Saturday, which saw Clark hit the deck. Social media erupted in fury over the play. Carter initially refused to…
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News Opinion | Indians Are Finally Standing Up to Modi’s Politics of Hate
For weeks, the announcement of India’s election results loomed as a moment of dread for millions of people who cherish the country’s commitment to secular democracy. Throughout the marathon voting process, it was considered a near inevitability that Prime Minister Narendra Modi — who has galvanized his right-wing Hindu base with assaults on India’s founding…
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News Iran’s supreme leader thanks US college students for ‘standing on the right side of history’
The Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, hailed American college students who have protested the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, applauding that they were “standing on the right side of history.” “Dear university students in the United States of America, you are standing on the right side of history,” Khamenei wrote in a…
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News Politico sparks outrage over framing Larry Hogan as standing in the way of Democrat making ‘history’
Politico changed a headline on Wednesday about the Maryland Senate race amid uproar from some conservatives about what they believed was a politically biased framing. The news site reported on the results of Tuesday’s primary where Republican Larry Hogan and Democrat Angela Alsobrooks emerged as the winners of the parties’ primaries. Politico’s update on the…
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News Cannes Film Festival explained: How juries, standing ovations, and the Palm Dog work
The Cannes Film Festival is hallowed ground in cinema but understanding its unique landscape can be confounding. The Côte d’Azur festival, which kicked off Tuesday, is a 10-day ballet of spectacle and film where even the photographers wear tuxedos, standing ovations are timed with stopwatches and movies tend to be referred to by the names…
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News Democratic congressman hits Super Bowl fans for not standing for ‘Negro National Anthem’
A Democratic congressman raised some eyebrows online Sunday when he took a shot at the Super Bowl crowd in Las Vegas, saying very few fans stood for the singing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” calling it “not a very pretty picture.” Known colloquially as the “Black National Anthem,” Grammy winner Andra Day performed the…
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News Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs’ Grammys performance of ‘Fast Car’ gets standing ovation
Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs performed a duet of “Fast Car” on Sunday at the 2024 Grammy Awards. Chapman, 59, and Combs, 33, took the stage to perform the song together for the first time since the country music star released his own cover. “Fast Car” was originally released by Chapman in 1988. The Grammys…
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