
Phillip M. Bailey
Chief Political Correspondent at USA Today
Writer. Acerbic. Reporter. Radical. Editor. Truculent. Thinker. Incisive. Citizen. Cynic. Agnostic. Militant. Black Man. Free. Pulitzer + Peabody. Winner.
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1 week ago |
usatoday.com | Phillip M. Bailey |Terry Collins
When George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer five blocks from her home, Nichole Subola visited the site of his death again and again, trying to wrap her mind around it. Police reform seemed within reach as she watched the global impact of the protests.
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1 week ago |
usatoday.com | Phillip M. Bailey
Sporting a "Make America Great Again" hat, President Donald Trump emphasized the need for the country to put its priorities above all else during his commencement addresses at West Point on Saturday. "Gone are the days where defending every nation but our own was the primary thought," he aid. "We are putting America first.
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3 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Phillip M. Bailey
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen was among the roughly half-dozen people yanked out of a May 14 Senate hearing for protesting Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. Within minutes of Kennedy's testimony, five people in the audience rose from their seats and began charging towards the front of the room near the member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet. "RFK kills people with AIDS," the group chanted.
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3 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Phillip M. Bailey
The first American pope in history voted in several U.S. elections out of his home state of Illinois, according to records obtained by USA TODAY on Friday, including an absentee ballot cast in last year's hotly contested presidential election. Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, has participated in seven separate contests since 2012, including three Republican primaries while living in Will County, a suburb just southwest of the Windy City.
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4 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Phillip M. Bailey
Former President Joe Biden rebuffed criticism that he waited too long to drop out of the 2024 campaign in a special live interview Thursday on "The View" and maintains he would have defeated President Donald Trump in a rematch last fall. Biden was peppered with several questions about his decision-making in the final months of his term, his relationship with major party leaders and if he takes responsibility for Trump's decisive victory in November.
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