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BIDEN, UKRAINE, STATE, UNION
The following transcript is the prepared remarks for delivery by President Biden as provided to The Times by the White House.
Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme
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BIDEN, STATE, UNION, UKRAINE
President Biden in his State of the Union speech took a victory lap on reduced federal spending, saying the deficit will be down by more than $1 trillion at the end of the year.
Mr. Biden‘s touting of fiscal responsibility comes as he has proposed spending
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UKRAINE, RUSSIAN, KYIV, CONVOY
Russia pummels Ukraine's No. 2 city, convoy nears Kyiv
Russian attacks against Ukraine's largest cities continue around the clock, forcing many residents to remain in underground shelters. rescuers in ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, give inspect buildings
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TEXAS, PRIMARY, ABBOTT, ELECTION
Voters in Texas will set the tone for the beginning of the 2022 midterm election cycle with the first regularly scheduled primaries taking place Tuesday.
Voters will decide if GOP Gov. Greg Abbott will represent the party again, or if he will face a runoff
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MLB, DEADLINE, LOCKOUT, LABOR
An official MLB baseball sits on top of an MLB game-used base with a lock and chain around it to represent the lockout between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association on Jan. 28, 2022 in Lincroft, New Jersey. Icon Sportswire
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BIDEN, RUSSIAN, BAN, STATE
President Biden is expected to announce a ban on Russian planes in US airspace during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, sources told the Associated Press.
The US would join Canadian and European aviation authorities in the ban, which comes amid growing
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TEXAS, INVESTIGATING, PARENTS, ACLU
The battle around medical treatment for transgender kids in Texas continues The governor of Texas wants gender-affirming treatment for transgender kids classified as child abuse. The state's attorney general agrees. But some local prosecutors say they won't
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SINKS, SHIP, CARRYING, CARS
A large cargo vessel carrying cars from Germany to the United States sank Tuesday in the mid-Atlantic, 13 days after a fire broke out on board, the ship’s manager and the Portuguese navy said.
The Felicity Ace sank about 400 kilometers (250 miles) off Portugal’s
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MEMORIAL, HOLOCAUST, TV, TOWER
Jewish groups and institutions around the world condemned a strike in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, in the area of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, where tens of thousands of Jews were killed by the Nazis in a two-day massacre during World War II.
It was
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CHURCH, SACRAMENTO, KILLS, SHOOTING
The suspected gunman had a supervised court-ordered visit with his daughters.
Four people were killed, including three children, after a gunman opened fire at a church in Sacramento, California.
The shooting took place at The Church in Sacramento in the Arden-Arcade
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WISCONSIN, ELECTION, REPORT, RESULTS
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature could decertify President Joe Biden's electoral victory in the state and choose to change the results of the popular vote, according to a special investigator's report released on Tuesday, WISN reported.
Michael
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BREITBART, ANDREW, LEGACY, NASHVILLE
Today’s Breitbart News Daily Podcast is one we’ve been anticipating for months. We celebrate the life and legacy of Andrew Breitbart ten years since his sudden passing. Host Alex Marlow was Andrew’s first employee when Andrew began his media empire about 14
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QUEEN, ELIZABETH, VIRTUAL, COVID
Queen Elizabeth II held two virtual audiences on Tuesday, suggesting she is recovering from COVID-19.
Buckingham Palace said the British monarch held virtual sessions with the ambassadors of Chad and Andorra. The 95-year-old canceled several sessions last
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WOMEN, HARTZLER, UNIVERSITY, MISSOURI
Republican Vicky Hartzler currently represents Missouri’s Fourth Congressional District in Congress. A former high school home economics teacher, Hartzler has held the seat since 2011, but is leaving it to run for the US Senate seat Roy Blunt is vacating next
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MARDI, GRAS, NEW, ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS — Jeremy Stevenson didn’t know if he could do it this year.
Normally, Mr. Stevenson, a chief within the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian tradition, spends an entire year sewing an elaborate suit that pays homage to the Native American tribes who took
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UKRAINE, CHMERKOVSKIY, MAKSIM, FLEEING
(CNN) Maksim Chmerkovskiy has shared that he has made it safely to Poland from his native Ukraine.
In a note posted on his Instagram stories late Monday, Chmerkovskiy wrote that he had made it onto a train bound for Poland.
"We're heading to Warsaw, hopefully.
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Nearly half of the 500 million free COVID-19 tests the Biden administration recently made available to the public still have not been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test.
Wild demand swings have been a subplot in the pandemic,
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SOTU, BIDEN, DEMOCRATIC, PARTY
Far-left “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib will give one of two Democratic rebuttals to President Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, drawing the ire of centrists in her own party, including one who described it as “keying your own car.”
Tlaib
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PELOSI, CAPITOL, ISRAEL, ARRESTED
A U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officer was reprimanded after an alleged intoxicated physical altercation in Israel ahead of a visit by leading U.S. lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
An officer affiliated with the USCP’s Dignitary Protection
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RUSSIA, BATMAN, RELEASES, HOLLYWOOD
NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. is halting the release of “The Batman” in Russia, just days before it was to open in theaters there, as Hollywood moved to cease distribution plans in the country following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Warner Bros., the
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SARAH, PALIN, NEW, PROVE
New York (CNN Business) The federal judge who presided over Sarah Palin's defamation trial against the New York Times said in a new written opinion setting forth his decision to dismiss the case last month that the former Alaska governor "wholly failed" to
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BIDEN, SECURE, BORDER, CALLS
President Biden, during his State of the Union address, called to secure the border amid the historic crisis that has surged under his watch.
The president's call elicited applause from the assembled legislators.
"We need to secure the border and fix the
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UKRAINE, ZONE, HAPPEN, FLY
Senator Roger Wicker (R., Miss.,) listens to Governor Gina Raimondo during a hearing on her nomination to be Commerce secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 26, 2021. (Tom Williams/Pool via Reuters)
Republican Senator Roger Wicker is advocating
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