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Today, President Biden is traveling to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 58th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. In 1965, John Lewis and other civil rights leaders led peaceful protestors demanding voting rights in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they were brutally beaten by state troopers. The Nation’s reaction to Bloody Sunday helped produce…
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Fifty-eight years ago, six hundred brave souls set out from Selma, Alabama to secure one of our most sacred freedoms: the right to vote. On the Edmund Pettus Bridge, their peaceful march was met with crushing violence. The late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, then only twenty-five, was beaten and suffered a fractured…
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Chinatown Him Mark Lai LibrarySan Francisco, California THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Well, I want to thank all of the elected officials and community leaders who are here to join me for this very important conversation, which is about our small businesses and what we can do to support them, what we can do to support the…
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On Wednesday, the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and the Office of Public Engagement hosted over 50 state and local elected officials and community leaders from across Minnesota at a “Communities in Action: Building a Better Minnesota” event. This was the thirteenth state highlighted in a series of “Communities in Action” events that the White House…
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President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. welcomed Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany to the White House today to reaffirm the strong bilateral relationship between the United States and Germany.  At the one-year mark of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the leaders discussed ongoing efforts to provide security, humanitarian, economic, and political assistance to Ukraine and the…
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James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:09 P.M. EST   (Reporters laughing.) MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Why are you guys happy? Q    Because it’s all ladies in the front row! MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  The ladies in the front row! Q    And it’s Friday. MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Oh, my gosh.  So, then I’ll just start in the back, then.  (Laughter.) Q   …
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Online harassment and abuse is increasingly widespread in today’s digitally connected world.   This can include online threats and intimidation as well as various forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (GBV), such as the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, cyberstalking, and sextortion. Women, girls, and LGBTQI+ individuals are disproportionately affected.  Survivors of online harassment and abuse—especially image-based…
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Oval Office 2:02 P.M. EST PRESIDENT BIDEN:  Well, Chancellor, welcome back to the Oval Office.  Welcome back to the White House. Olaf, we’ve — there’s been a lot changing since the last year you were here.  Matter of fact, if I’m not mistaken, you were here in February of 2022, and Russia was amassing its…
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WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve in key roles: Adams Memorial Commission The Adams Memorial Commission was enacted with the purpose of establishing a permanent memorial to honor John Adams and his legacy located in Washington, DC. The bi-partisan Commission shall consider and formulate plans for…
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To view the letter from the Physician to the President, visit: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Letter-3.3.23.pdf ###
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