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Biden Scolds 'Distinct Minority of Americans'

President issues a sterner call for the unvaccinated to get the shots

(Newser) - President Biden made his frustration with the unvaccinated and those who encourage them clear Thursday. "We've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us," he said in a speech to the nation from the White House. The president's...

Trump Calls Speech 'an Interesting Experience'
Reviews Mixed for
'Low Energy' Trump
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Jan 9, 2019 7:10 AM CST

Reviews Mixed for 'Low Energy' Trump

He says speech was an 'interesting experience'

(Newser) - After addressing the nation from the Oval Office Tuesday night, President Trump tweeted video of his speech on border security and added : "Thank you for soooo many nice comments regarding my Oval Office speech. A very interesting experience!" The comments, however, were not universally nice. Raw Story reports...

Fact-Checkers Pounce on Trump Address
Fact-Checkers Pounce
on Trump Address
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Jan 9, 2019 3:33 AM CST

Fact-Checkers Pounce on Trump Address

Post calls address 'misleading and bleak'

(Newser) - President Trump delivered an address on the "crisis" at the US-Mexico border Tuesday night—and fact-checkers started work as soon as he got to the word "crisis." The Washington Post, which calls Trump's description of the situation "misleading and bleak," reports that while the...

Democrats Demand Equal Time After Trump Address

All major networks set to carry immigration talk

(Newser) - Major networks are not planning to avoid running President Trump's prime-time address Tuesday on what he calls a border "crisis" the way they did with a 2014 address by former President Obama on immigration deemed "overly political." ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and Fox...

President Obama's New Year's Resolution Is...
President Obama's New Year's Resolution Is...
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Jan 1, 2011 12:04 PM CST

President Obama's New Year's Resolution Is...

...well, it doesn't involve diet or exercise

(Newser) - President Obama's New Year's resolutions: Grow the economy, create jobs, and strengthen the middle class, though he warned today that the economic recovery is still fragile as the calendar turns to 2011. In his weekly radio and Internet address, taped from Hawaii, the president also said that Democrats and Republicans...

Obama: Let's Be Thankful... and Start Cooperating

President uses Thanksgiving address as a call for unity

(Newser) - President Obama gave his weekly address a few days early in order to wish the country Happy Thanksgiving—and call for bipartisan cooperation, CNN reports. Today, the first family will give thanks for “the God-given bounty of America and the blessings of one another,” he said, adding that...

Opposition to School Speech 'Silly': Gibbs

Obama press secretary also hints at possible racially-driven censorship

(Newser) - Robert Gibbs fired back today at critics of President Obama's planned address to school children, calling it "a little bit of the silly season," the Hill reports. Noting that that Ronald Reagan and the elder President Bush both made school addresses, he painted Obama's critics as censors,...

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