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President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to 17 athletes, activists, sports stars, business leaders ...

Cindy McCain is now the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture. She was having lunch with her teammates between a weightlifting session and a practice when her phone rang. She is married to former astronaut and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who is up for reelection this year. She is also captain of OL Reign, a Seattle-based pro team in the National Women’s Soccer League. This is exactly the way that I’m supposed to be doing it.’ ” The screen flashed, “The White House.” McCain’s widow, Cindy, endorsed Biden in 2020 as the Democrat reversed the party’s fortunes in Arizona, winning the state. “I just think back to these incredible figures that I’ve been able to walk in their path,” Rapinoe said. Biden once joined her “Nuns on the Bus” tour. Rapinoe’s exploits on the soccer field are matched by her activism off it. ‘Oh, this is exactly what I’m supposed to be doing. “President Biden has long said that America can be defined by one word: possibilities.

Today, President Biden acknowledged that there are not enough votes in the Senate to make an exception in Senate filibuster rules so that Democrats could ...

His comments came at the outset of a virtual meeting with Democratic governors in which Biden said the focus now should be on electing more supporters of abortion rights this year. Under current rules, most legislation requires 60 votes to advance — a threshold Democrats cannot achieve in the evenly divided chamber. Today, President Biden acknowledged that there are not enough votes in the Senate to make an exception in Senate filibuster rules so that Democrats could write abortion protections into law with a simple majority in the chamber.

Among the recipients are Steve Jobs, Megan Rapinoe, Sister Simone Campbell, John McCain and Denzel Washington.

For more than two decades, Washington has served as the National Spokesman for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. When she retired in 1985, she was one of only seven women general in the Armed Forces. Khan is the founder of the Constitution Literacy and National Unity Center, as well as a Gold Star father. The first American to receive a COVID-19 vaccination outside of clinical trials, Sandra Lindsay is a well-known New York critical care nurse who has served along the frontlines of the pandemic. She was named one of Time magazine's best college presidents in 2009 and has dedicated her life to serving students from the Southwest Border region of the United States. Biles is the most decorated gymnast in the history of American sports.

Biden Administration will facilitate air shipment of approximately 6.2 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents of Reckitt Mead Johnson Enfamil Stage 1 infant.

By July 3, Operation Fly Formula will have transported more than 37.2 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents to the U.S. Details of our actions can be found at whitehouse.gov/formula. The product will be available at national and regional retailers. President Biden launched Operation Fly Formula to speed up the import of infant formula and start getting more formula to stores as soon as possible. In May, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the agency is exercising enforcement discretion so that Reckitt Mead Johnson can export additional infant formula into the U.S. By mid-July, Reckitt Mead Johnson plans to bring approximately 66 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents of Enfamil Stage 1 infant formula base powder into the U.S. market. Today, President Biden is announcing that his Administration is sourcing a flight, facilitated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for Operation Fly Formula to transport Reckitt Mead Johnson infant formula base powder from Singapore to Chicago, Illinois via flights on July 12, 14, and 19.This delivery will include over 418,000 pounds of Reckitt Mead Johnson Enfamil Stage 1 infant formula base, the equivalent of approximately 6.2 million 8-ounce bottles.

President Biden met with a group of Democratic governors on how to protect abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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Mohamed Hag Magid, Commissioner, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, Commission Member, United States ...

Weiss represents the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry at Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe meetings and numerous other international conferences throughout Europe, Central Asia, and Israel on the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and international religious freedom. She is Founder of the advocacy group Partners Ending Domestic Abuse and Founder and Member of Bayview Alliance. Lesley Weiss, Commission Member, United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad She also currently serves on the board of the IKAR Shul in Los Angeles and the RAND Corporation Center for Middle East Public Policy. In 2001, Lozman founded an organization to bring college students to Eastern Europe to restore Jewish cemeteries that were destroyed during the Nazi era. Michael Lozman, Commission Member, United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad Magid works with The United Nations Development Programme in training Imams to deal with violence and extremism against religious minorities in East and West Africa. The Commission’s mission is to identify, protect, and preserve cemeteries, monuments, and historic buildings in Eastern and Central Europe that are associated with U.S. heritage. USCIRF uses international standards to monitor religious freedom violations globally, and makes policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress. USCIRF Commissioners are appointed by the President and Congressional leaders of both political parties. Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, Commission Member, United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad - Lesley Weiss, Commission Member, United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad - Michael Lozman, Commission Member, United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad

President Joe Biden holds virtual meeting with governors on reproductive health care on Friday as the states continue to react to the overturning of Roe v.

Each state will now determine whether the procedure can be performed. At least two Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, have blocked efforts to sidestep the filibuster. Wade.

Steve Jobs has been awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden, the White House announced Friday. He helped launch many tech ...

In its statement, the White House praised Jobs’s creative approach to his various endeavors. “He’s having trouble leading because he’s reluctant to offend people or piss them off,” Jobs is quoted as saying. Jobs founded Apple in April 1976, and it’s since become one of the biggest companies in the world.

Friday, President Joe Biden told Democratic governors that he's looking at every available option to protect abortion access, after the Supreme Court ...

The medal, the nation's highest civilian award, will go to barrier-breaking figures as well as prominent political veterans.

The recipients, the first of his presidency, include a variety of barrier-breaking figures familiar to many Americans as well as prominent political veterans Mr. Biden has known over the years. The relationship between the two was strained in 2008 when they were both on their respective party tickets, Mr. McCain as the Republican presidential nominee and Mr. Biden as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee. He will honor Sandra Lindsay, a New York critical care nurse who was the first American vaccinated for the coronavirus outside of clinical trials. At times, presidents have used such medals to reach across the aisle, as Mr. Biden is attempting by honoring Mr. McCain, his longtime colleague and friend from their Senate days. Ms. Biles has become a vocal advocate for mental health, foster children and victims of sexual assault while Ms. Rapinoe has spoken out for gender pay equality, racial justice and gay rights. Mr. Biden’s list includes another prominent former Republican senator, Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a popular wisecracking moderate who worked across the aisle even as he zinged politicians and journalists with his sharp wit. “These 17 Americans demonstrate the power of possibilities and embody the soul of the nation — hard work, perseverance and faith,” a White House statement said. Mr. Biden attacked Mr. McCain at the time as an “angry man” who was taking “the low road to the highest office in the land.” But the two later made up, and Mr. Biden comforted Mr. McCain’s family when the Republican senator died of brain cancer in 2018. Mr. Biden singled out others who overcame obstacles, like Brig. Gen. Wilma L. Vaught, one of the few early women to serve as a general in the American military; and Julieta Garcia, the former president of the University of Texas at Brownsville and the first Hispanic woman to lead an American college. The medal, the nation’s highest civilian award, will go to barrier-breaking figures as well as prominent political veterans. The president will honor the recipients at the White House on Thursday. The medal is the nation’s highest civilian award, first established in its current form by President John F. Kennedy and meant to honor “any person who has made an especially meritorious contribution” to national security, world peace or “cultural or other significant public or private endeavors,” as the original executive order put it.

Biden Administration will facilitate air shipment of approximately 2 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents of Danone's Nutricia specialized medical infant.

By July 3, Operation Fly Formula will have transported more than 37.2 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents to the U.S. Danone plans to export approximately 38 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents into the U.S. market, which also includes their Aptamil baby formula from Ireland and New Zealand. The specialty formula will be mainly available through medical distributors.

This week, as President Biden showcased America's leadership on the world stage, Biden-Harris Cabinet members and administration officials led a.

U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh made his third stop in two days in the South on Thursday when he headlined a roundtable discussion on workers’ rights at Jackson State University. After stops in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Greenville, Walsh, the former mayor of Boston, spoke to a room of nearly 100 people on the struggles many in the Mid-South and across the nation are facing regarding workplace rights, compensation and conditions. Instead, in the Mississippi Delta, Walsh said farmers are using the program to bring in foreign workers at a lower wage to replace Black farm workers who have been in place for many years. They’re also about meeting the needs of the local labor markets, like here in Little Rock,” Walsh said. U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh visited Philander Smith College Wednesday to announce a $2 million grant for the Little Rock Workforce Development Board — one of 18 organizations to receive a grant nationwide. “Hopefully, working supporting people, continuing to fight for wage equity, gender equity, pay equity, and other issue pay equity,” says Walsh. “In this country, the fact that we pay women less than men, and make excuses for whey we do that, that’s just wrong. The Colorado Department of Transportation is celebrating the near completion of the Central 70 Project. The White House infrastructure coordinator was invited to see the major milestone. The Birmingham Xpress is set to start running in September, a 15-mile bus route between Five Points West and Woodlawn. Buttigieg was in the city to support the $20 million project funded through the ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Pilot Program that’s part of the bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, joined by Congresswoman Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, visited Birmingham on Thursday to announce the U.S. Department of Transportation’s new Reconnecting Communities program, a $1 billion plan designed to restore community contact to transportation and increase economic opportunity. “We stopped investing in chip manufacturing and chip R&D. And, in search of cheap labor, we watched a lot of our manufacturing leave our shores.” The Biden administration has for months sought the passage of a bill that would appropriate $52 billion for domestic semiconductor manufacturing. In Miami-Dade, HUD funding provides the bulk of the county’s $700 million budget for public housing, which includes complexes such as Liberty Square and rental vouchers under the federal Section 8 program, which subsidizes rents for low-income residents with requirements for stable rents and price caps. “This” was to become in March the first Black woman to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget, a federal agency that’s little known outside of Washington but that makes spending and regulatory decisions that affect all Americans. Young was speaking Friday after appearing on a panel at the Essence Festival with two other Biden administration cabinet officials – Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan. [….] Asked about the one Louisiana issue that captures her attention at OMB, Young replied, “Disaster, disaster, disaster response. “And we’ve proposed rules for methane emissions for the oil and gas industry that are the most stringent in history.” The agency is also curbing the use of hydrofluorocarbons, the climate-warming chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.

In the wake of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden met with a group of Democratic governors on Friday to discuss how to ...

Wade. It would upend lives and impact “the health and safety of millions of women,” he said to the portion of a July 1 videoconference open to the press. The Women’s Health Protection Act, defeated in May by a 49-51 U.S. Senate vote, is an expansive abortion bill that would declare abortion a human right, undercut existing state pro-life laws, and force objecting doctors to perform abortions. He told the governors that the Dobbs decision means “if you’ve got an 11-year-old child who’s a victim of incest who finds herself pregnant, she can’t get a choice. Though Biden backs what he says is a “codification” of the Roe v. The state has also increased funding for family planning and “abortion care services.” Her executive order will reject any cooperation with states investigating violations of their abortion laws, including investigations or extraditions. In a 1982 committee vote he supported a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. “This is a frightening time for women all across our nation; a lot of fear and anxiety out there,” she said. He said Planned Parenthood officials in North Carolina have told him they expect about 10,000 women seeking abortions from out of state in the next year. The New York governor said she has expanded an extraordinary session of the New York Legislature from its focus on gun legislation. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision a “terrible, extreme decision” and a “tragic reversal” of Roe v. In the wake of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. The administration would seek to protect women traveling interstate to seek an abortion if state governments intervene, though no legislatures has passed such laws.

With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross. CASPER, WY - MAY 28: Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a. The Jan. 6 committee's work is sowing ...

And their ranks are expected to grow in a midterm year.” Then came the love triangle, the allegations of fraud, and a mysterious death in Africa. Was it a tragic accident? … But the end goal of the ad is not to sink Cox. Instead, Democrats are hoping to boost him in the July 19 Republican primary for governor, which has turned into a tight battle for the nomination with former state Commerce Secretary KELLY SCHULZ — term-limited GOP Gov. LARRY HOGAN’s preferred successor.” “It gives power to a testimony that allows Americans to judge for themselves.” A hearing is scheduled for later this month.” — “There’s just too many people who don’t really like him,” [NICOLE] WOLTER said. — “You’d be hard-pressed to find people in this area who support the idea that people aren’t looking for someone else,” said DAVE VAN WYK, a transportation company owner. Because the more it burns, the more it burns.” — “Republican activists believed Donald Trump was the only candidate who could beat Hillary,” MARC SHORT said. — “If it looks like there’s a place for me next year, I’ve never lost a race, I’m not going to start now,” NIKKI HALEY told reporters. “If you’re in his shoes, you have to try to put that fire out. Two monumental storylines unfurled last month that will shape politics for the foreseeable future: the Supreme Court’s transformational decisions on guns, climate regulation and abortion and the Jan. 6 committee’s evidence of potential criminality by DONALD TRUMP.