While supportive of vaccines, some business leaders say too many key questions remain about the Biden administration’s requirement.
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Key parts of Biden’s ‘action plan’ to confront delta variant surge
WASHINGTON — President Biden has unveiled a new “action plan” plan to confront the COVID-19 surge that’s being driven by the spread of the delta variant. It mandates vaccines for federal workers and contractors and certain health care workers, requires employees at companies with 100 or more workers to be vaccinated or tested weekly, lays […]
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Biden requiring federal workers to get COVID vaccine
The step comes ahead of the president’s speech Thursday afternoon outlining a six-pronged plan to address the latest rise in coronavirus cases.
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Maine Voices: Twenty years after 9/11, ‘unthinkable’ looks a lot different
President Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan has redefined what our greatest threat is.
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White House asks Congress to pass emergency funding for disaster aid
The White House is asking for $14 billion in aid to respond to natural disasters that occurred before Hurricane Ida, as well as $6.4 billion to pay for the ongoing relocation of tens of thousands of Afghans who partnered with the U.S. during the war in Afghanistan.
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In New Jersey, New York Biden calls climate change ‘everybody’s crisis’
Biden said the threat from wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding and other extreme weather must be dealt with in ways that will lessen the devastating effects of climate change.
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Biden blasts Supreme Court’s decision to let Texas’ ban on most abortions stand
The court voted 5-4 to deny an emergency appeal from abortion providers and others but suggested that its order likely isn’t the last word and other challenges can be brought.
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Insight: ‘Forever war’ started long before Afghanistan
The era of American military intervention in the Middle East and Central Asia to support undemocratic and corrupt regimes started with Lebanon in 1958.
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Jim Fossel: Biden at fault for Afghan chaos
You can both agree with the president’s decision to withdraw and strongly oppose the way he did it.
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Drone kills member of group blamed in Kabul bombing, U.S. says
The airstrike fulfilled a vow President Biden made to the nation Thursday when he said, ‘We will hunt you down and make you pay.’