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On the south side, Bill Clinton and John McCain are taking part in City Year’s “Convention of Idealism” at the University of Chicago. City Year, which is now in 13 cities, is a high-energy, well-run national-service program that puts a group of 17- to 24-year-olds to work for a year in after-school programs, senior centers and other community-building activities. The highly diverse corps, wearing their trademark sport shirts, khakis and Timberlands, has attracted strong corporate and philanthropic support for its boot camp-meets-Peace Corps mix of camaraderie and service....

They are coming for us, for our stadiums, for our sports and likely very soon. PHOTOS: The Paris attacks aftermath | Sports world recognizing tragedy Many of you do not want to hear this. You will say I am being purposefully incendiary, or overly reactionary, an alarmist, a hawk. I assure you I am not. This is why I have meandered these past few days in writing this, as my editor will attest....

The Homecoming artist made her Disney debut with 2019’s The Lion King reboot and she looks set to expand her resume with the entertainment giant further. According to a rumor from The Sun newspaper, Beyoncé is reportedly in talks to sign an £80 million ($100 million) deal for three major projects. The U.K. newspaper’s source said: “Beyoncé has become a major player for Disney and is the perfect fit for their brand....

Most Americans see the terrible events in Los Angeles as an unwanted flashback to the 1960s-to the civil-rights movement, the riots of 1965 and 1968 and to what we then saw, accurately, as the inevitable crisis of race in America. Once again, young blacks are taking to the streets to express their outrage at perceived injustice, and once again, whites are fearful that The Fire Next Time will consume them....

“I respect the governor’s decision—the decision he made,” Biden told reporters Tuesday just hours after Cuomo made his announcement in a televised address. But he also praised the governor for his three terms leading the nation’s fourth most populous state. “He’s done a hell of a job—both on everything from access to voting to infrastructure to a whole range of things,” Biden said when asked about Cuomo’s record of work....

Since March, the ACLU has acted as an intermediary for the advocacy groups working to get the most vulnerable migrants past the border, forwarding requests of up to 35 families a day in the camp in Tijuana and elsewhere along the border. There is no established list of advocacy groups that submit the requests, nor is there an explanation of what makes certain migrants qualify for asylum more than others....

Ukraine formally applied to join NATO as a military partner on Friday, coinciding with Putin’s announcement that Russia would be formally annexing four occupied regions within Ukraine’s borders. If accepted, NATO-aligned forces would formally be drawn into the war, pitting forces in the West against the Russian military and, potentially, escalating the conflict. NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said earlier Friday that while it supports Ukraine’s right to pursue an alliance with NATO, all 30 allies need to reach a consensus on membership....

There is no doubt that the Fed must raise rates several times this year to protect the economy from rising inflation. But to keep Fed Chair Jerome Powell from having to slam the brakes too hard on the current economic recovery, it’s important that the president and Congress use fiscal policy to combat high inflation as well. The Federal Reserve has taken some initial steps to pull back the reins on the monetary stimulus issued to help the economy rebound from the onset of COVID-19....

For one, Iranian officials see no room for renegotiation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the historic agreement they struck with the U.S. in 2015 alongside leading powers China, France, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom (P5+1). Instead, Iran is eager to pressure Washington to be held accountable for billions of dollars in lost revenue due to the unilateral U.S. sanctions imposed by the Trump administration after the U....

In his first public address since becoming president 50 days ago, Biden said that he directed states, tribes and territories to make all adults eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by May 1. His hope is to get the nation closer to “normal” by July 4, Independence Day, he said. “We’re going to go from the million shots a day that I promised in December, before I was sworn in, to beating our current pace of 2 million shots a day, outpacing the rest of the world,” Biden said....

Biden made the remarks during a virtual campaign fundraiser with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence and in contradiction to Biden’s own statements, that the former vice president is in favor of defunding the police, a proposal that has become a popular rallying cry for some amid ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. “I don’t want to defund police,” Biden said. “I want to get police more money in order to deal with the things they badly need from making sure they have access to community policing, that they have also in the department’s social workers, psychologists, people who in fact can handle those god awful problems that a cop has to have four degrees to handle....

Biden remarked on the matter during a Q&A session with reporters following his Wednesday address on the authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Biden about a report that said his administration was planning to pay $450,000 to $1,000,000 each to undocumented immigrants who had been separated from their families at the border under the Trump Administration....

Biden addressed the Russian invasion of Ukraine during his speech by praising Ukrainian resistance before prompting a standing ovation from both sides of the aisle after asking the lawmakers in attendance to “send an unmistakable signal to the world and Ukraine.” While the president went on to deviate from his prepared speech many times, some of his gaffes changed the meaning of the speech. “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he’ll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people,” Biden said during his address, mirroring a prepared version of the speech supplied by the White House while substituting “Ukrainian....

The poll, which was conducted by Morning Consult/Political Intelligence, finds that since May, Biden has leaped over Trump as the preferred choice of presidential candidate among likely voters in Arizona, Florida and Texas. The poll has a graph that reflects a 10-day moving average of vote share across the three different states from May 6 to July 26. The graph shows Biden leading 49–42 percent in Arizona, 49–46 percent in Florida and 47–45 percent in Texas....

Snowden’s tweet came after former President Donald Trump repeatedly slammed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for contributing to what he believes is a stolen election. A raid was conducted on Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate in August, when classified documents were discovered, and now people are wondering if the Obama-era classified documents discovered at an office used by Biden should lead to a similar investigation into the president. Snowden, a former contractor with the CIA who leaked classified information of internet and phone surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA), targeted the DOJ’s role in the suppressing the information release about the Biden documents....

In an NBC interview airing ahead of the Super Bowl LVI matchup between the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals, Biden called for greater diversity in the coaching ranks of NFL teams. The president noted the disparity against the number of players from communities of color and called the need for more diversity a matter “generic decency.” Biden made similar comments during a Super Bowl interview in 2021. “The whole idea that a league that is made up of so many athletes of color as well as so diverse, that there’s not enough African American qualified coaches to manage these NFL teams, it just seems to me that it’s a standard that that they’d want to live up to,” Biden explained....

The poll, which was conducted by The New York Times and Sienna College, surveyed 3,870 registered voters from six swing states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, Arizona, Wisconsin and North Carolina between June 8 and June 18. The poll has a margin of error ranging from plus or minus 4.1 to 4.6 percentage points. According to the poll, Biden holds a lead in each of the states, with 11 point leads in Michigan (47-36) and Wisconsin (49-38)....

The latest polling from CNBC/Change Research, which was carried out from August 21 to 23 and published Wednesday, shows Biden ahead of Trump in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. At the same time, Trump’s overall approval in the six states has increased since the same survey was conducted two weeks earlier. Biden’s biggest leads over Trump are in Michigan and Wisconsin, where the Democratic nominee is ahead by 6 percentage points and 5 percentage points, respectively....

Votes fell largely along party lines with all 48 Democrats and the two independents that caucus with them supporting the package and 49 Republicans objecting. (GOP Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska was absent due to a family emergency.) If the House passes the revised package, Americans would see another round of stimulus checks, increased weekly unemployment payments and additional direct payments as part of the Child Tax Credit. On Wednesday, Democrats agreed to reduce eligibility for $1,400 stimulus checks....

“These are high-value investments,” a senior administration official told Newsweek. “We think these are investments that we, as a country, cannot afford not to make.” Infrastructure upgrades consistently poll well among the public. A Monmouth University poll released in January found 61 percent of the people surveyed rated transportation and infrastructure as “very important” or “extremely important.” Similar polls also have found the issue to win high marks publicly, even if it’s not the top pressing issue for many....