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Politics Jan 28

WATCH: Biden visits collapsed bridge in Pennsylvania, touts infrastructure law

President Joe Biden is heading to Pittsburgh to promote the benefits of his infrastructure package — and he's set to appear just two miles from the site of an early-morning bridge collapse that underscores his frequent calls to do more…

Politics Jan 11

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President Joe Biden says that he supports changing Senate rules in order to pass voting rights legislation, declaring that changing the rules would be to protect the “heart and soul of our democracy.”…

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Politics Dec 16

WATCH: Biden awards Medal of Honor to three soldiers for actions in Iraq, Afghanistan

President Joe Biden on Thursday presented the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award for valor in combat, to three soldiers who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. Two were recognized posthumously.

Nation Dec 15

WATCH: Biden pledges ‘whatever it takes’ to assist tornado victims

“The scope and scale of this destruction is almost beyond belief,” he said as he stood before a home reduced to a few walls and piles of rubble in Dawson Springs, one of two Kentucky towns he visited.

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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — For the fifth time since taking office less than a year ago, President Joe Biden is taking on the grim task of visiting an area ravaged by natural disaster to offer comfort and condolences. Biden…

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WATCH: President Biden gives remarks on COVID-19 at the National Institute of Health

Biden on Thursday unveiled a winter plan to combat the coronavirus and its omicron variant with enhanced availability of shots and vaccines but without major new restrictions.

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WATCH: Biden salutes troops as ‘spine of America’ on Veterans Day

President Joe Biden is saluting the nation's military veterans as "the spine of America" as he marks his first Veterans Day as president in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.

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WATCH: Biden speaks on infrastructure, funding bills

With his agenda in jeopardy on Capitol Hill, Biden on Tuesday visited the Michigan district of Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a moderate Democratic lawmaker who has urged him to promote his proposals more aggressively to the public.

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