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Nov 17, 2024 | 
nbcdfw.com | Gabriela Sá Pessoa |Colleen Long |Aamer Madhani |Colleen Long
Joe Biden will become the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in the Amazon rainforest during a brief stop Sunday in the Brazilian city of Manaus, coming as the U.S. is expected to scale back its commitment to combating climate change under the incoming administration of Donald Trump. The massive Amazon — it’s about the size of Australia — stores huge amounts of the world’s carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas driving climate change, even as it's rapidly deforested.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Colleen Long |Erin Logan |Will Weissert |Colleen Long |Erin B. Logan
Vice President Kamala Harris used a joint campaign appearance with President Joe Biden in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania on Monday to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned — concurring with the White House's monthslong opposition to the company's planned sale to Japan's Nippon Steel.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
nbcdfw.com | Colleen Long |Colleen Long
President Joe Biden, who belatedly opted against seeking reelection, on Monday will pay a visit to the library of the last president to make the same difficult choice, more than a half-century ago. Biden's speech Monday at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, is designed to mark the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, enacted under President Lyndon Johnson.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Jill Colvin |Colleen Long |Michael Balsamo |Eric Tucker |Colleen Long |Eric Tucker | +1 more
Former President Donald Trump called for unity and resilience Sunday after an attempt on his life added fresh uncertainty to an already tumultuous presidential campaign and raised sharp questions about how a gunman was able to open fire from a rooftop near a Pennsylvania campaign rally.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
nbcchicago.com | Colleen Long
More than 500 people — some linked to transnational cartels and organized crime rings — have been charged with gun trafficking and other crimes under the landmark gun safety legislation President Joe Biden signed two years ago Tuesday.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
nbcdfw.com | Randall Chase |Michael Kunzelman |Colleen Long |Claudia Lauer |Colleen Long
Federal prosecutors are wrapping up their gun case against Hunter Biden, with two more witnesses expected Friday in their effort to prove to jurors that the president's son lied on a mandatory gun purchase form when he said he wasn’t “an unlawful user of, or addicted to” drugs.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Jennifer Peltz |Michael R. Sisak |Colleen Long |Jake Offenhartz |Colleen Long
A reluctant Donald Trump will be back in a New York City courtroom Thursday as his hush money trial resumes at the same time that the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Washington over whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions he took during his time as president. Jurors will hear more witness testimony from a veteran tabloid publisher, and Trump faces a looming decision over whether he violated a gag order imposed by the judge.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Colleen Long |Kevin Freking |Mary Clare Jalonick |Colleen Long
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after Congress had passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown. The White House said Biden signed the legislation at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was spending the weekend. It had cleared the Senate by a 74-24 vote shortly after funding had expired for the agencies at midnight.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
nbcdfw.com | Colleen Long |Kevin Freking |Mary Clare Jalonick |Colleen Long
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after Congress had passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown. The White House said Biden signed the legislation at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was spending the weekend. It had cleared the Senate by a 74-24 vote shortly after funding had expired for the agencies at midnight.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Zeke Miller |Colleen Long |Farnoush Amiri |Colleen Long
Lawmakers turned a Tuesday hearing on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents into a proxy battle between the Democratic president and Republican front-runner Donald Trump, as a newly-released transcript of Biden’s testimony last fall showed that he repeatedly insisted he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency.
