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War Powers Reform Bill Far Better Than Feared The Capitol Dome provides the background as U.S. servicemembers prepare for the 56th presidential inauguration rehearsal Jan. 11 in Washington, D.C. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform are providing military ceremonial support to the inauguration. (U.S. Air Force) (Image by Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo) In recent months, we’ve seen efforts to repeal some but not other AUMFs (Authorizations for the Use of Military Force), plus talk of creating ...

Bipartisan defections continue on how to fund the massive spending bill. jillian: content recovers when james comeer will join us with reaction to all of that later in the show. todd: the military car somali is the first strike in the country since president biden took office. the pentagon says it targeted how shabab fight is linked to al qaeda, responsible for a number of high profile bombings and other attacks in so molly. unclear whether anyone died in that strike. jillian: a bipartisan group...

Tom Udall. Photo: AFP The decision comes as Biden works to shore up alliances in the Asia-Pacific to present a united front on what he has described as Washingtons key foreign policy challenge: China. Biden officials have had little high-level, face-to-face contact with Beijing since a first senior diplomatic meeting in March in Alaska, where the Chinese side expressed anger at US sanctions announced just ahead of the talks. New Zealand has been an important ally in the region, and on Friday h...

Undeclared conflict? Americas battles with Iran-backed militia escalate, again FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: U.S. Army soldiers look at an F-16 fighter jet during an official ceremony to receive four such aircraft from the United States, at a military base in Balad, Iraq, July 20, 2015. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo/File Photo reuters_tickers This content was published on June 29, 2021 - 05:05 June 29, 2021 - 05:05 By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Bidens ...

Biden faces blowback from progressives over airstrikes against Iran-backed militias on Iraq-Syria border John HaltiwangerJun 29, 2021, 02:58 IST President Joe Biden Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images Progressives are raising questions about Bidens latest airstrikes against Iran-backed militias. Rep. Ro Khanna told Insider the strikes show "the need for a broader strategy to bring our troops home." The Pentagon said the strikes were in response to drone attacks on US troops in Iraq. Progressive Demo...

>> 38% of african-american families having no net worth. this is important for helping families with babies to develop a net worth, have assets to move into the middle class. >> sean and merrill, thank you both. appreciate it. coming up, everybody -- >> today congress has a historic opportunity to repeal this outdated authorization and reassert its proper authority over the solemn matters of war and peace. the house votes to repeal a house passed in the wake of 9/11, moving to take back some...

  By Dr Alison Broinowski AM. She is Vice-President of Australians for War Powers Reform. She joined the Australian Foreign Service in 1963, lived in Japan for a total of six years, and for shorter periods in Burma, Iran, the Philippines, Jordan, South Korea, the United States of America and Mexico, working alternately as an author and Australian diplomat. Since leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, she has received a PhD in Asian Studies from ANU, and has continued to lecture, ...

April 30, 2021 Human Rights First Calls on Biden Administration to Center Justice and Accountability in Next 100 Days NEW YORK -- Today marks one hundred days of President Biden’s administration. While the Biden presidency has brought some needed progress, the administration has considerable work ahead to re-establish justice as the guiding force for American leadership around the globe. At the 100-day milestone, Human Rights First calls on the ...

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: President Biden is addressing a joint session of Congress tonight for the first time. It comes on the eve of his 100th day in the White House. Biden is expected to unveil his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan to expand educational opportunities, child care and paid family leave. He’s proposing to fund the plan in part by raising the capital gains tax for the nation’s wealthiest households and cracking down on weal...

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