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The media desperately wanted to forget President Joe Biden's latest public gaffe magnifying yet another lapse in his mental acuity. Pictured: Biden addresses the media about the Trump Administration’s lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act on Nov. 10, 2020, at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Commentary By Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. At a March 8 White House event to announce the nomination of two female generals to lead U.S. military combatant commands...

The nominations of Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost, of the Air Force, and Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson, of the Army, will now be sent up to the Senate for approval.

The Department of Defense announced over the weekend the nomination of two female generals for four-star command positions just months after Pentagon officials delayed their nominations for fear that Trump might reject the two women and replace them outright before leaving office.  The Pentagon announced on Saturday that Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost will be promoted to Transportation Command, which oversees the U.S. military's transportation network. Van Ovost is the only active-duty, four-star female general officer in the country. She currently serves as the Air Mobility Command...

Biden Endorses Female Generals Whose Promotions Were Delayed Over Fears of Trump’s Reaction The unusual strategy to slow the promotions until after the election — intended to protect the officers’ accomplished careers — was devised by top Pentagon leaders. President Biden had endorsed the generals’ promotions, and the White House was formally submitting them to the Senate for approval, the Pentagon announced on Saturday.Credit...Yuri Gripas for The New York Times March 7, 2021 WASHINGTON — President Biden has nominated two female generals to elite, four-star comm...

US institutions after Trump Jan 23,2021 - Last updated at Jan 23,2021 BOSTON  —  The storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters on January 6 may be remembered as a turning point in American history. The insurrection, incited by the president himself, has raised profound questions about the kind of political institutions future generations will inherit. Two narratives have come to describe this nadir of an already-tumultuous presidential transition in the United States. The first frames the Capitol insurrection as a singular failure of US institutions, which implies that the...