A raging war in Ukraine and a smoldering Middle East did not stop outgoing president Joe Biden from touting his foreign policy successes in a farewell State Department speech on Monday. His administration, Biden said, successfully averted major conflicts across the globe and left the United States “more capable” and “better prepared” than ever before.
Jacob Soboroff has appeared on NBC more than 30 times since the outbreak of the California fires Jacob Soboroff (Monica Schipper/Getty Images for NYU Langone Medical Center) An NBC News reporter at the center of a defamation lawsuit is leading the network’s coverage of the California wildfires. Jacob Soboroff, a national correspondent for NBC News,
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Harvard president Alan Garber has said Trump’s threat to go after endowments ‘keeps me up at night’ R: Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi Andrew Harnik; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) L: Harvard President Alan Garber (harvard.edu) Harvard University has hired the former lobbying firm of Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles and Trump attorney general nominee Pam
Trump, Vance pointed to apartment complex as example of Biden-Harris ‘open border’ Donald Trump speaks in Aurora, Colo. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images) Months after President-elect Donald Trump drew attention to an illegal immigrant gang that has taken over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, the city is working to immediately shutter one of those complexes as gang