Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015. | Carolyn Kaster / AP
Passing the 100-day mark of President Joe Biden’s administration, one word we hear often is “bold.” From the passage of the American Rescue Plan (to fight the coronavirus), to important changes proposed in the American Jobs Plan (on infrastructure), and his American Families Plan (expand paid family and medical leave, pre-school education, free community college, etc.), the president envisions important changes in several critical areas of daily life.
What we yet see are a lot of “bold” changes in U.S. foreign policy, especially in relations with four major nations China, Vietnam, Cuba, and North Korea. In many respects, the United States continues strategies forged during the Cold War. After four years of Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy, Biden is steering U.S. foreign policy back to its previous channels. In a speech at the State Department in February, he d
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Marlins P Paul Campbell issued 80-game PED ban
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04 May 2021, 06:19 GMT+10
Major League Baseball suspended Miami Marlins pitcher Paul Campbell 80 games without pay after he tested positive for a banned substance.
The 25-year-old right-hander tested positive for the performance-enhancing substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (DHCMT), according to Monday s announcement from the commissioner s office.
The suspension is effective immediately.
The Major League Baseball Players Association released a statement from Campbell saying he never knowingly, willingly or intentionally ingested this substance in any form. Due to the fact that I do not know the origin of how this substance has entered into my system, I currently have no viable defense in support of my innocence, Campbell said.
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These Corporate Executives Are Pushing Back on Voter Suppression Plan B
Apr 28, 2021
An organized mob of insurrectionists failed to overturn the 2020 presidential election by overtaking the U.S. Capitol and murdering Vice President Mike Pence last January 6. However, there is a Plan B, and voter suppression is central to this plan’s success.
Republican legislators in almost every state have introduced bills that could nullify the voice of millions of Democratic voters. These legislators may need to come up with a Plan C, though. U.S. business leaders helped to turn out record numbers of voters last year, and they are already gearing up for the crucial 2022 midterm elections. The big question is whether or not they choose to leverage the get-out-the-vote power of unions, too.