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Infrastructure: White House defends hiking taxes on corporations to pay for plans, but signals it’s open to compromise
“I’m wide open, but we’ve got to pay for this,” Biden told reporters following his remarks about the American Jobs Plan. “There are many other ways we can do it. I’ve come forward with the best, most rational way in my view, the fairest way to pay for it. But there are many other ways …
White House staffers asked to resign after revealing past marijuana use
Five people are no longer employed at the White House, while additional staffers are working remotely while their “suitability clearance” is pending, a senior White House official said. In many of the cases involving staffers who are no longer employed, additional security factors were in play, including for some hard drug use, the official said. …
White heat – Britain’s foreign and defence policy shake-up focuses on technology | Britain
Mar 20th 2021 THE SLOGAN “Global Britain” first gained currency in the months after the country’s vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Theresa May deployed the phrase five times when she addressed the Conservative Party conference for the first time as prime minister. Days later it was the title of Boris Johnson’s first …
Testing wristbands, masks signs of a new boss at White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — Testing wristbands are in. Mask-wearing is mandatory. Desks are socially distanced. The clearest sign that there’s a new boss at the White House is the deference being paid to coronavirus public health guidlines. It’s a striking contrast to Donald Trump’s White House, which was the epicenter of no less than three separate …
White House pressed on Biden’s unity message amid Trump impeachment push
President Biden began his term in office with a message of unity, expressing a desire to move past the rancorous division in the United States and bring people together, while Congress remains set to carry out an impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump. During her first press briefing after Biden’s inauguration, White House press secretary …
US flag White House lowered honor dead capitol police officer
In a proclamation Sunday, President Trump says the show of respect will take place at the White House and all federal buildings through sunset on Wednesday. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is ordering the U.S. flag to be flown at half-staff as a sign of respect for two U.S. Capitol Police officers who have died …
As the White House changes hands, so will Fox News’ support of the presidency | Fox News
When Joe Biden is sworn in as president on 20 January, cable news viewers may witness one of the most dramatic 180-degree turns in history. After four years of slavishly promoting the president, Fox News is expected to pump on the brakes within seconds of the inauguration ceremony. All of a sudden, the person in …
The Trump White House has entered its final stage: complete meltdown | Donald Trump
The last days of the Trump presidency increasingly resemble the fictional presidency in the movie Monsters vs Aliens. In case you missed this 2009 animated masterpiece, President Hathaway (voiced by Stephen Colbert) responds to an alien invasion with a team of unlikely heroes, among them a giant-sized TV reporter from Modesto, a cockroach-turned-mad-scientist, and an …
BREAKING: Whitney Witt resigns – The Brown and White
Whitney Witt, the inaugural dean of Lehigh’s College of Health, has stepped down effective today, Provost Nathan Urban announced in an email earlier this afternoon. Urban said Witt plans to return to Lehigh’s faculty following a sabbatical. Witt was hired to lead Lehigh’s newest college in January 2019. Urban did not give a reason for …
Coronavirus live updates: Trump reverses course on plan to have White House staff be among first to get vaccine
Covid’s U.S. toll: Nearly 300,000 dead and a stalemate between fatalism and hope By Marc Fisher, Scott Wilson and Arelis R. Hernández In April, the deadliest month of the pandemic, an elderly New Yorker in assisted living couldn’t grasp why she was suddenly forbidden to see her friends. In May, two sisters in Michigan, one …
