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The Bidens' White House cat should be the first of many new pets Major and Champ are getting a feline friend. But why stop there? Imagine if the Bidens bought a pony, like the Kennedy family also made room for a pony, Macaroni, seen here outside of the Oval Office in 1962PhotoQuest / Getty Images file April 30, 2021, 8:36 PM UTC The White House is launching a new diversity initiative: After almost 12 years, a kitty cat will finally stalk the halls of the Executive Mansion once more. First lady Jill Biden told NBC's "TODAY" show co-anchor Craig Melvin that the yet-to-be-named feline appointmen...

Friday, 26 February 2021, 1:59 pm As the cliché goes, every crisis is an opportunity. The pandemic seems no exception. To be clear though: at any time, it is quite OK to make money from working in, with or on behalf of the public health system. It is also OK to be making money after you’ve successfully lobbied health authorities to get saliva testing included in the arsenal of the government’s responses to the pandemic. The grey area begins if and when media campaigns that have righteously invoked public health goals end up stampeding the Ministry of Health into making decisions that (a...

Most presidents, though, have found the job demanding, perhaps too demanding. James K. Polk pretty much worked himself to exhaustion; he died less than four months after completing his single term in office. Zachary Taylor, the hero of the Mexican-American War, found being president harder than leading men into battle. Dwight Eisenhower had a heart attack from the stress of leading the Free World. And many presidents expressed relief once they could be called “former president.” This trend started early. John Adams told his wife Abigail that George Washington looked too happy wat...

Ron DeSantis Is TNR’s 2020 Scoundrel of the Year An heir to Trumpism, the Florida governor has concealed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and fomented a depraved indifference to human life. Drew Angerer/Getty For so many of us, the person of the year is Nothing. The thing that killed mom or laid out the elementary school teacher was Nothing. Nobody saw it. Either dad tracked nothing home from the grocery store or there was a fatal amount of Nothing smeared all over the produce. Maybe it was on the car door handle. Nothing got through the mask I wore to the drug store. Nothing is co...