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George Santos drama, balloon stunt popped, and a fired-up Biden: Big moments from a testy State of the Union

American politics can be a brutal business, but the State of the Union is almost always a respectful affair. This year's speech was marked by heckling, boos, and snide comments from the gallery.

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Biden Promises To Stop Waiving His Own Terrible 'Buy American' Mandates

The president's State of the Union address re-upped a tired, old promise to spend more tax dollars on less infrastructure.

Reason

Biden vows 'to protect' country in State of the Union speech, refers to China balloon

U.S. President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that he would cooperate with great power rival China, but vowed "to protect our country," a reference to a Chinese spy balloon that traveled across America last week.

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Transcript: Biden's second State of the Union address

Transcript of President Joe Biden's second State of the Union address, as prepared for delivery and as provided by the White House:

The Independent UK

Toll of police brutality on display at State of the Union

The toll of police brutality in America was on painful display as family members of Black men and women killed in custody sit alongside lawmakers in the House to hear the president’s State of the Union address

The Independent UK

Biden pitches optimism to skeptical Americans in State of the Union address

WASHINGTON — President Biden is delivering his second State of the Union speech, and hoping to convince skeptical Americans that they are better off than they were when he took office two years ago.

Los Angeles Times

State of the Union: Read Joe Biden’s full address

Read President Biden’s full State of the Union address

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Read President Biden's State of the Union speech

Read President Biden's State of the Union speech delivered on Feb. 7, 2023, as prepared for delivery.

WEKU

Biden State of the Union will urge Congress to ‘finish the job’ with a ‘blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America’

‘The people sent us a clear message. Fighting for the sake of fighting, power for the sake of power, conflict for the sake of conflict, gets us nowhere’

The Independent UK

Ilhan Omar and Joe Rogan, A Short Play

Scene 1: One day on Twitter Glenn Greenwald: Republicans criticizing Rep. Omar for saying Israel has hypnotized the world shows that members of Congress prefer Israel's interests to Americans' right to free speech. Rep. Omar: It's all about the Benjamins. Scene 2, later on Twitter< The crowd: That's antisemitic! You…

Reason

Queen of salsa Celia Cruz will be the first Afro Latina to appear on a U.S. quarter

Cuban American icon Celia Cruz is being honored along with four other influential American women as part of the American Women Quarters Program.

WEKU

Biden May Dream of 6 More Years, but His Three Closest Comps Never Got There

What we can learn from the State of the Union addresses by Jimmy Carter in 1979, Richard Nixon in 1971, and JFK in 1963

Reason

Here's what you can expect Biden to say at tonight's State of the Union address

President Biden will give Americans a progress report on his four-part Unity Agenda, which he announced at last year's State of the Union address.

WEKU

New appeal over murder of American student stabbed to death while jogging in London 20 years ago

Police have made a fresh call for information about a 20-year-old unsolved murder case

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The Conversation

Large numbers of Americans want a strong, rough, anti-democratic leader

It might be comforting to think that American democracy has made it past the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. But our research shows that a wide range of the American people, of all political stripes, seek leaders who are fundamentally anti-democratic.

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the importance of African American studies

The opening days of Black History Month 2023 have coincided with controversy about the teaching and broader meaning of African American studies.

Daily Mirror

Homeless man makes £10.5 million mansion his home after owners abandon it

A homeless man has been seeking shelter inside a $12.5 million (£10.5 million) mansion in Northeast America after its owners left it abandoned, as he would otherwise have to sleep rough on the streets

Tribune News Service

Transgender people in rural America struggle to find doctors willing or able to provide care

For Tammy Rainey, finding a health care provider who knows about gender-affirming care has been a challenge in the rural northern Mississippi town where she lives.

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Fortune

‘Hope is not a strategy’: BofA CEO warns corporate America must prepare for the worst around debt ceiling

Bank of America CEO, Brian Moynihan, said now is not the time to start tweaking the 250-year-old Constitution.

The Guardian - US

Yes, Black officers killed Tyre Nichols. What is the correct response to that?

The hierarchy of racial terror has never been enforced only by white people. Nor has it harmed only Black people

The Guardian - US

‘A long time coming’: Central Park Five’s Yusef Salaam runs for office

Salaam, who was falsely accused at age 15 of gang rape and incarcerated for seven years, is hoping to use his experience to create a positive change

Salon

Florida is now a laboratory for fascism

There is a very specific reason why Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted African-American history for erasure

Chicago Sun-Times

Change to Democrats’ 2024 presidential primary schedule benefits Biden, not voters

An NPR analysis in 2016 of which state best represents America found that Illinois is the clear winner, with demographic diversity and a broad cultural and geographic balance of rural, small-town, suburban and urban America.

The Conversation

QAnon is spreading outside the US – a conspiracy theory expert explains what that could mean

The name crops up all over the place, but many people have no real understanding of what QAnon is, or why an estimated 22% of Americans accept one of its core beliefs: that some kind of political “storm” is coming and that violence could be necessary to achieve it.

ABC News

US Congress suggests sending B-21 stealth bombers to Australia under AUKUS partnership

America's next-generation B-21 bomber could be sent to Australia to "accelerate" national security under a Congressional proposal put to the US Defence Secretary.

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