Former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announces her presidential run in Charleston, S.C, on Feb. 15, 2023.
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Senators, governors, representatives and past presidents have to weigh multiple factors before declaring their 2024 run for president. Campaign financing is one of them.
Several oil projects are active in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
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Biden vowed ‘no more drilling on federal lands,’ but Russia’s war on Ukraine and pressures at home are hard to ignore.
President Joe Biden has held fewer press conferences than any president in recent memory.
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President Joe Biden may be nicer to reporters than his predecessor, but he’s not actually responsive to the press. He has held fewer press conferences than any president in recent memory.
Joe Biden during the 2020 election race, but will he stand in 2024?
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Joe Biden’s appeal to suburban and older voters will make him difficult to beat, some experts argue.
Data shows teacher pay never exceeds that of other college graduates.
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Teacher wages have risen little over the past few decades when adjusted for inflation.
Bed Bath & Beyond has spent billions in recent years on share buybacks.
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The retailer has spent nearly $12 billion buying back its own stock since 2005, money that could have been used to invest in its business.
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address.
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President Biden outlined his achievements in key policy areas and sketched out his plans for the rest of his term in office.
President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers his State of the Union address on February 07, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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How does a State of the Union speech get written? A former White House presidential speechwriter describes the many hands in this process.
Caucusgoers stand beneath the sign for the South Carolina delegation at the Democratic National Convention.
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The Democratic National Committee is shaking up its presidential nominating calendar to give people of color an earlier vote in the process.
Kevin McCarthy., left, Chuck Schumer, right, and President Joe Biden meet at the White House on May 9, 2023.
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As President Biden begins meeting with congressional leaders to resolve the debt ceiling showdown, an economist warns the consequences of a default could be dire.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy walks to the speaker’s ceremonial office at the Capitol on Jan. 9, 2023.
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The House GOP has announced a slew of investigations, including a review of the conduct of the Department of Justice and its investigations of Donald Trump.
Biden and Kishida: A relationship far from flagging.
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The meeting is the first between the leaders since Japan outlined a more assertive defense strategy in December.
What does it mean when a document is classified?
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What are classified documents? Who gets to see them? What happens if they are released? A former State Department and Department of Defense staffer who had top secret clearance provides the answers.
Donald Trump with Republican Kevin McCarthy who is attempting to get elected as speaker of the House of Representatives.
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House Republicans have finally elected a leader after 15 gruelling votes.
Rioters break windows and breach the Capitol building in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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The insights of an ancient historian show that the causes of civil unrest are often the same over time and across societies.
President Biden has moved the US back into a leadership position at COP.
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Joe Biden’s move away from Trump’s isolationist policy has won some support from the public, and Congress.
Merrick Garland, center, announcing on Nov. 18, 2022, that he will appoint a special counsel for the Department of Justice investigation into former President Donald Trump.
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Special counsels are not entirely independent, but they do still help administrations avoid the perception of bias.
The Agoa agreement provides eligible African countries with duty-free access to the US market.
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Africa should push for extension of AGOA rather than bilateral trade deals with the US.
NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems.
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As US-Africa leaders meet, it should be clear that aligning respective goals, priorities and actions is in the interests of the US and of African countries.
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The US-Australia Alliance is seen by many Australians as an incomplete project. Government rhetoric on climate cooperation must now become reality.