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President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci declared Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the United States had “done worse than most any other country” in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “Five hundred thousand Americans, families grieving all across the country. Did this have to be?”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned fellow Democrats in an exclusive CNN interview that the party "must be unified" to defeat President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential race, while noting that any of the candidates running to face him "would be a better president." "I can't even envision a situation where he would be reelected. But we are not, we don't take anything for granted. As I say, we have to have our own vision for the future. But everybody knows that we must be unified in making sure that he does not have a second term," Pelosi told CNN's...

Yet another student has been suspended for having something that represents a gun, but isn’t actually anything like a real gun. This time, Daniel McClaine, Jr., a freshman at Poston Butte High School in Tan Valley, Arizona, made the mistake of setting a picture of a gun as the desktop background on his school-issued computer. The picture shows an AK-47 lying on a flag, reports KNXV-TV. The gun isn’t his, McClaine assured the ABC affiliate in Phoenix. He found it on the Internet and liked it, partly because he is interested in serving in the military after graduation. A teacher...

August 28, 2012 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: See, I understand it, but then on the other hand I don't understand. They had a unified convention. Everybody showing up in Tampa was unified, get rid of Obama, let's turn this country around, and now, whoever -- Romney, the party, the RNC -- whoever's doing it started this rules fight that's gonna tear everything apart. Like I say, on the one hand I understand it. On the other hand, it doesn't make any sense. Not that I agree. I know what they're trying to do, folks. And if you're just joining us, I...

A unified Korea would be closely allied to the US. That's why China won't support it By Praveen Swami “Like lips and teeth,” Mao Zedong said, in response to a question about his country’s relationship with North Korea. Yesterday morning, the Guardian revealed that the Wikileaks cables said China was “ready to abandon North Korea.” In a separate report, the newspaper quoted Chinese diplomats as backing the revelation, saying they wanted an “independent and peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.” It’s an odd claim, because the cable doesn’t say anything of the kind. The text of the cable – a...

"Survival" of Belgium as a unified country was called into question last night after a row between French and Dutch speakers brought the government to the verge of collapse. The wrangle has already brought down the government four times in the past three years but the latest spat is the gravest yet and threatens to split the country into Flemish areas and French-speaking areas. King Albert II warned politicians that the political crisis "seriously threatens" the country's role in Europe, after the Prime Minister, Yves Leterme tendered his resignation. Mr Leterme stepped down after talks broke down over plants to...

Photo #1, 23 January 2010: Aerial photo of Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Photo #2, 23 January 2010: Combat controllers from the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Florida, USA Photo #3, 23 January 2010 Photo #4, 23 January 2010 Photo #5, 23 January 2010 Photo #6, 23 January 2010: Aerial photograph of Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti The Photographer: Staff Sgt. Desiree N. Palacios, United States Air ForcePhotos Via: http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-201001.htm (photos 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54) 

Baghdad.Australian Defense Minister Brendan Nelson arrived in Baghdad Saturday on an unannounced visit to Iraq and met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss the coalition's efforts to improve security in cities such as Baghdad, the government said. Australia, a staunch supporter of the U.S.-led Iraq war, has about 1,400 troops in and around the country. Al-Maliki and Nelson met at the prime minister's office in the capital's heavily fortified Green Zone, and al-Maliki "underlined that Iraqi forces are unified in battling terrorists and outlaws, and are now fighting shoulder to shoulder throughout Iraq" Source: AP

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006 -- Today’s meeting between President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Amman, Jordan, was historic and demonstrated the two leaders’ accord on how to move forward in Iraq, a senior U.S. military officer told reporters at a Baghdad news conference today. The two senior leaders had a very productive talk on how to best address the current security situation in Iraq, Army Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, told Ali al-Dabbagh, a senior Iraqi government official who accompanied the general to the briefing. Iraq has experienced escalating Sunni-vs.-Shiite sectarian violence...

WASHINGTON, May 22, 2006 – Defense Department officials are weighing the potential benefits of merging the three military medical commands into one, unified command that would oversee all military health care as well as the training of military medical professionals. The concept, if adopted, would bring together the Army, Air Force and Navy medical commands, enabling DoD to provide better care while keeping costs in check, Dr. David Tornberg, deputy assistant secretary of defense for clinical and program policy, told American Forces Press Service. The DoD medical community is generally supportive of such a realignment, which Tornberg said would ensure...

San Jose Unified School District trustees will discuss the potential closing of Cory and Randol elementary schools tonight at what is expected to be a highly emotional meeting. --snip-- Many Randol parents are outraged Randol -- a National Blue Ribbon school with high test scores -- is on the closing list. A committee ranked Randol and Hacienda equally when it reviewed a list of schools considered for closing, and that has spawned conspiracy theories. District staff members broke the tie and decided to keep Hacienda open because of its commitment to school choice at the elementary level. But others are...

The Los Angeles Board of Education has chosen a Pasadena assistant city attorney as its new special counsel, a lawyer with the backing of union leaders and the school board president but far less experience than others seeking the job. According to several sources familiar with the selection process, the school board voted 4-3 in a closed session to offer Maribel S. Medina the position, which could pay up to $240,000 a year. Medina specializes in land-use, environmental and real estate law. The vote to hire Medina is the latest in a series of board decisions that have caused some...

It's that time again, folks. This is our time to send all the liberals searching for their Prozac. It's time we extract our pound of retribution from each of their socialist hides. And the best way to do that is to vote straight Republican. Unfortunately, we rejected some of the most Constitutionally oriented candidates in the primary process. No matter, though. We can still work with those we have running. The Republicans are, after all, an electable bunch. Sure, I can nit-pick and find problems with most of them. Nevertheless, collectively, the Republicans are fielding a pretty good group --...

Things did not look good for President George W. Bush in the summer of 2003, but he has entered the New Year with many happy returns indeed. He has rebounded nicely in most of the areas that bedeviled him during the troubled months and now appears poised to win reelection. But it is still a long way to November and in politics, like life, there are no guarantees. Yet there is no question that the president’s team is heading into 2004 breathing easier than just a few months ago. President Bush’s job approval ratings are on the upswing, he leads...