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Former President Joe Biden speaks after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute’s 10th Anniversary Celebration, on October 26, 2025, in Boston. | Photo Credit: AP Former President Joe Biden called these “dark days” as he urged Americans to stay optimistic and not to check out in response to what he…
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Former White House national security adviser John Bolton arrives at U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, in Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S., | Photo Credit: Reuters John Bolton, the national security hawk and former adviser to Donald Trump who has become one of the U.S. President’s biggest critics, surrendered on Friday (October 17, 2025) morning…
I began practicing psychotherapy during the Reagan administration. Thirty years went by before distress about politics became a clinical issue for any of my clients. I remember the moment it first happened: There was a long voicemail from a distraught woman requesting therapy for anxiety and depression in reaction to the 2016 presidential election of Donald…
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Washington: Facing questions about an alleged sexual assault and medieval-themed tattoos linked to extremist groups, Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth would struggle to be confirmed for the job under normal circumstances. But these are not normal times in Washington. Hegseth, a Fox News host, was picked by Trump on Tuesday in one of…
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Antony Blinken said he had a very constructive meeting with the Israel PM on Monday. Israel: Top US diplomat Antony Blinken was due to travel to Egypt on Tuesday for talks on a Gaza ceasefire after saying Israel had accepted a US “bridging proposal” for a deal and urging Hamas to do the same. Blinken,…
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U.S. President Joe Biden addresses at an election fundraising event hosted by Indian American billionaire and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla at his residence, in Washington on May 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Taking a dig at his predecessor, U.S. President Joe Biden has said that Donald Trump should have injected himself with a little…
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and threw the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. McCarthy’s chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, forced the vote on the “motion to vacate,” drawing…
The special grand jury that investigated efforts by Donald Trump and others to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results recommended indictments against twice as many people as the 19 ultimately charged by prosecutors, leaving South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham among those not indicted. The grand jurors’ report released Friday showed they recommended charges against 39 people,…