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Biden received a third shot of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at the White House on Monday. Biden completed his first two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine before being sworn into the Oval Office in January. “Let me be clear, boosters are important,” Biden said on Monday. “But the most important thing we need to do is get more people vaccinated.” As he was getting the jab live on-camera, the president was asked by a reporter about the recommendation from World Health Organization (WHO) and other foreign leaders that wealthy nations should donate vaccines before providing boosters....

On Saturday, Biden will participate in “bilateral engagements with the leadership of Egypt, the UAE, and Iraq,” after which he will be part of the GCC+3 Summit, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters on Friday. At the summit, Biden will “lay out clearly and substantively his vision and his strategy for America’s engagement in the Middle East.” Biden is “intent on ensuring that there is not a vacuum in the Middle East for China and Russia to fill, that American leadership and an American engagement will be a feature of U....

In this latest poll, Biden leads the pack with 28 percent, ahead of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders at 24 percent. With 16 percent, billionaire Tom Steyer took third place in the poll, surpassing Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Warren garnered 12 percent of the support of those surveyed while Buttigieg rounded out the top five with 11 percent. Newsweek reached out to Biden’s campaign for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication....

Biden has referred to the recent high cost of gas as “Putin’s price hike,” and he again blamed the Russian leader for the pain Americans are experiencing at the pump during a speech that called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months. The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline hit $5 for the first time on June 11. Though gas prices have dipped slightly in recent days, the average was still at $4....

Three conversations between the leaders help plot the descent from “concerns” to the real possibility of conflict. Biden warned Putin during an hourlong call on Saturday that the U.S. and its allies will “respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs” on Russia if it invades Ukraine, according to a readout shared by the White House. The West wanted to “engage in diplomacy,” it said, but warned “we are equally prepared for other scenarios....

While a May 2021 survey conducted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the University of Georgia found Biden had an approval rating of about 51 percent in the state, the latest AJC poll that was published on Wednesday found that number had dropped to around 34 percent. Among respondents who identified as independents, that number fell from about 46 percent to just over 33 percent. Among Democrats, 74.4 percent said they either strongly or somewhat approve of the way that Biden is handling his job as president....

There may well be considerable differences between the Biden and Trump cases, but the headline is the same: Biden and Trump both mishandled classified information. That is the way the public will perceive the two cases, regardless of what the special prosecutors and investigators may find. If Garland treats the two cases significantly differently—if he allows the prosecution of Trump without allowing prosecution of Biden—many in the public will perceive a double standard....

The moderator, Fox News’ Chris Wallace, asked Trump to condemn white supremacists, but instead the president pivoted to Antifa and spoke directly to far-right group the Proud Boys. Biden’s Twitter account shared a video on Wednesday morning featuring footage of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a woman was killed when a white nationalist drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters. The president caused major controversy at the time for saying there were “very fine people, on both sides....

Biden defended the decision Tuesday, telling reporters at the White House that there is a “growing risk of an attack” by ISIS-K—an Afghanistan affiliate of the terrorist organization. “Every day we’re on the ground is another day we know that ISIS-K is seeking to target the airport and attack both U.S. and allied forces and innocent civilians,” the president said. The president’s comments came after he met with G7 leaders to discuss the crisis in Afghanistan....

Biden will take “decisive” action to address four overlapping and compounding crises facing the nation—COVID-19, the economy, climate change and racial inequity—in his first 10 days in office, Ron Klain wrote in a memo to senior staff. On the day of his inauguration, Biden will reverse Trump’s “Muslim Ban” and end restrictions on immigration from some Muslim-majority countries, rejoin the Paris climate accord and ask the Department of Education to extend the existing pause on student loan payments and interest for millions of Americans....

According to several media reports, Biden will select Yellen as his nominee for the Treasury Department, a move that would make her the country’s first female Treasury secretary. If the former Federal Reserve boss is confirmed by the Senate, she will be charged with steering the U.S. economy back on track and curbing the increase in unemployment triggered by the coronavirus outbreak. Yellen has a mixed record when it comes to fiscal policy....

The Bears will once again go with true freshman Jarrett Stidham at quarterback. He played well last week against Oklahoma, but two late turnovers ultimately cost Baylor. MORE: Baylor-Oklahoma State matchup page Line: Pick’em, Total: 78 Line movement: The Wynn opened Oklahoma State -1, moved to a pick’em, then back to Ok. State -1. Most books sit at a pick ’em after opening the Cowboys -1. Check out our odds page for updated college football spreads and totals from Las Vegas....

That’s wonderful, and we wish you the best. But for those taking on the process of planning a fall wedding, there’s an important question to answer. MORE: SN early Top 20 for 2016 | Best Week 1 matchups “Who are we playing that weekend?” Sporting News is here to help with its second annual college football wedding planner. We expanded this year’s edition. Today, we’ll look at the Big 12....

Running back Cross Patton, son of OutKast rapper Big Boi, became the fifth child of a rap star to commit to a Pac-12 football program in recent memory. He announced Saturday his intention to join the University of Oregon as a preferred walk-on. MORE: Sporting News midseason All-Americans Whether Patton has the conference’s best musical family to date is a matter of personal taste. After all, there are four platinum albums between the five rapper dads....

There was nothing extraordinary about J.T. Barrett’s performance, except that it happened. MORE: Three takeaways from Ohio State’s win vs. Wisconsin Seven days prior to the Big Ten Championship game, Barrett left Ohio State’s still-at-stake rivalry game against Michigan with an injured right knee. Six days prior to the Big Ten Championship game, Barrett had arthroscopic surgery to shave off a dangling piece of cartilage. Saturday, Barrett quarterbacked OSU to the Big Ten Championship for the first time, the Buckeyes surviving previously undefeated Wisconsin by a 27-21 final....

There has been outside pressure on the conference to get the season ramped back up. First, there was pressure from players, coaches and athletic directors in the conference. Secondly, there are other major conferences that have begun play. Big Ten teams like Ohio State are currently out of the mix for a potential playoff appearance. (Note: Ohio State was No. 2 in most national preseason polls) Then there was President Donald Trump, who said the Big Ten should play football....

“On Tuesday evening, President Clinton was admitted to [University of California Irvine] Medical Center to receive treatment for a non-Covid-related infection. He is on the mend, in good spirits, and is incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses, and staff providing him with excellent care,” Clinton’s spokesperson Angel Ureña said in a statement released Thursday evening. An additional statement from Drs. Alpesh Amin and Lisa Bardack said Clinton was admitted “for close monitoring and administered IV antibiotics and fluids,” NPR reported....

The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft did acknowledge that he “shouldn’t have had dinners with him,” during an exchange part-way through a wide-ranging sit-down with ABC Australia. Gates told presenter Sarah Ferguson: “You’re going way back in time, but yeah I will say it for the over 100th time, yeah, I shouldn’t have had dinners with him.” Asked whether ex-wife Melinda French Gates had warned him about Epstein sexually compromising people, he replied: “No, I had dinner with him, that’s all....