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Perdue previously served as a U.S. Senator from 2015-2021

For some, Joe Biden entering the White House has felt like a sigh of relief: The president who unabashedly led the country with hate and helped orchestrate the deaths of more than 410,000 Americans in a pandemic is finally gone. Biden signed 17 executive actions on his first day as the country’s chief executive, and has signed about another dozen since. He has made it his priority to reverse and reject much of Trump’s agenda. While his gestures so far spell hope, other Americans are holding...

Lessons Unlearned: Lanka’s Democrats Must Study The US Democrats  Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka A tougher, tropical Trump, President Gotabaya bragged thus in a speech in Ampara, shown on TV news on Saturday, January 9 th 2021:  “…However, Nandasena Gotabaya has two characters [personalities]. Sometimes the Buddhist clergy still says to me that ‘we don’t want President Gotabaya; we want the Secretary of Defense– you must be a little harsh’. That also can be done. If that is the approach,...

); The First Lady, the Second Gentleman and the other new White House faces to look out for There are several ‘firsts’ among the new residents of the 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. By Rónán Duffy Friday 22 Jan 2021, 12:05 PM Jan 22nd 2021, 12:05 PM 31,563 Views 39 Comments JOE BIDEN IS into his third day as US president and the new administrati...

Graphic Online BY: bbc.com 705 Joe Biden has arrived at the US Capitol in Washington, where he will be sworn in as 46 th US President just before 17:00 GMT. Vice- President-elect Kamala Harris will take the oath of office alongside him-the first woman to hold that position  The pair started their day with a church service at the Cathedral of St Matthew in Washington. Some 25,000 troops will guard the inauguration ceremony after a deadly riot at the Capitol earlier this month. Donald and Melan...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama says she hopes Americans are “finding joy in the smallest places” in a candid birthday post.

Late on Sunday, December 27 th, after initially raising concerns about the pandemic relief measure that had overwhelmingly passed Congress days before, President Trump signed the measure into law, ending a long political stalemate and beginning the process of sending financial relief to American families and small businesses, further aiding the American economy. As with the CARES Act enacted in March, this bill, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021,” passed the House and Senate overwh...

Trump’s Years Close with Insurrection at the Capitol Matty Mendez On Jan. 6, 2021, the top story should have been the victories of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossof of Georgia in a consequential Senate run-off, which awarded the Democratic Party with a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate. It should have been the news of President-Elect Biden’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Attorney General position, a gut-punch to newly-demoted Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.  On Wednes...

Women of color in Georgia showed up in record numbers to make their voices heard for 2020 Election The domestic worker movement reached Georgians by phone, doors, mail, and text a total of 5,856,426 times across the span of seven weeks. Author: 11Alive Staff Updated: 10:08 AM EST January 8, 2021 ATLANTA — Voter turnout from the 2020 Election proved to be record breaking with historic numbers of women of color voting. The domestic worker movement -- including Ca...

Q&A: Sen. Jack Reed on what Democratic control would mean for the Senate Published Wed Jan 06 2021 19:22:51 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by Ian Donnis U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, who has represented Rhode Island in the Senate since first winning election in 1996, is poised to become chairman of the Senates Armed Services Committee. Thats after Democrat Raphael Warnock and David Ossoff won run-off races in Georgia Tuesday; both Democrats and Republicans will have 50 seats, but Vice P...