Author: Matt Viser

Washington Post – Politics:

Biden’s trip next month, his first to the Middle East as president, includes a stop in Saudi Arabia despite the country’s record of human rights abuses.

Washington Post – Politics:

Biden has long pressed for an assault weapons ban, successfully negotiating a 10-year ban as a senator in 1994. Nearly three decades later, he is confronting the realities of a Congress that operates much differently and a landscape that makes the goal almost impossible to achieve.

Washington Post – Politics:

President Biden’s brother James is known in the family as the one who’s always ready to help. But he also has a history of business dealings that resulted in recriminations and lawsuits.

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Biden orders a national accreditation system for police departments and a database of offending officers. Seeking to balance the concerns of police groups and Black activists, Biden acts two years after the killing of George Floyd.

Washington Post – Politics:

Biden addresses the nation on the killing of 14 kids in Texas, just days after massacre of 10 people in Buffalo. A president who has lost two of his own children looks for words to console a country reeling from tragedy.

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Tucker Carlson and his wife were looking to get their son a leg up on his application to Georgetown University when they turned to a well-connected Washington friend who had an even better-connected father.

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Biden ran for president blasting the Charlottesville march and pledging to “restore the soul of America.” The racist massacre in Buffalo is a sharp challenge to that promise.

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Biden has long described a tension between his faith and his politics. As president, the potential end of Roe v. Wade makes him the nation’s highest-profile champion of abortion rights.

Washington Post – Politics:

Biden took office determined to shift the nation’s course on climate change. Now that legacy could be threatened by the political urgency to cut gas prices.