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Thu, January 28, 2021 | 23:45

Congress has to seize moment to fix immigration

Amid his first wave of actions after his inauguration Wednesday, President Joe Biden took direct aim at the nation's dysfunctional immigration system by rescinding some of the Trump administration's more extreme approaches to enforcement and pushing Congress to finally adopt comprehensive reforms. That's a refreshing - and responsible - change from his predecessor's unconscio...

2021-01-28 16:45

Biden erases Trump's racism

President Joe Biden issued a flurry of executive orders last week, and some represent positive steps toward history education, anti-discrimination and racial reconciliation.

2021-01-28 16:37

War on free speech

In the wake of the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, Twitter has permanently banned the former commander in chief.Facebook blocked Trump from posting at least until after President Joe Biden took office. Trump's account is still suspended. Reddit, Shopify, Snapchat and others followed suit in banning the former president and his supporte...

2021-01-28 16:27

Biden gets symbolism right

One of Donald Trump's first acts on moving into the White House in January 2017 was to hang a portrait of Andrew Jackson, the former U.S. president and known racist, in the Oval Office.

2021-01-27 17:36

Larry King's greatest on-air highlight

Larry King's greatest on-air highlight

Election night 1988 had lasted almost 'til sunrise. Now it was almost midnight on the night after - and Larry King was about to have his greatest, or at least most astonishing, on-air moment.

2021-01-27 17:35

Finally, president with COVID-19 plan

If there is a single day that marks the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, it would be Jan. 21, 2020, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that it had confirmed the first case of the novel coronavirus on American soil.

2021-01-26 16:26

Joe Biden gave speech America needed

Joe Biden gave speech America needed

Joe Biden gave the speech we needed after the trauma of an insurrectionist attack on the Capitol building before which he stood. With plain language, it was just right for the place and moment. And it drew some sharp lines in calling on American values.

2021-01-25 17:00

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny risks it all for democracy. Will GOP senators do the same?

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny risks it all for democracy. Will GOP senators do the same?

Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading fighter for democracy, returned home last week, after recuperating in Germany from a Kremlin attempt to murder him by poison as he campaigned in Siberia.

2021-01-24 18:03

People's trust needed to heal nation

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. - what a relief it is to write those words - was unstintingly candid in acknowledging the drastic circumstances that made his inauguration so unlike any other. His appeal for the necessary unity to overcome those shadows recalled John F. Kennedy's speech of 60 years ago.

2021-01-24 17:00

46th president: familiar problems, a new beginning

Wednesday at noon, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took their respective oaths of office to become the nation's next president and vice president. Many Americans will surely breathe some collective sigh of relief.

2021-01-21 17:01

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