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President Biden is reportedly grumbling behind closed doors that Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t been mentioning him or “Bidenomics” enough in her recent campaign speeches. Biden, 81, has privately complained to allies that Harris and the Democratic Party appear to have “moved on from him” since his July exit from the 2024 race, and that his “accomplishments” are no longer being highlighted as Election Day nears, according to an NBC News report on Monday. The president was particularly upset at one instance in which the 59-year-old vice president did invoke his name — during her Sept. 10 debate against former...

Reporting from Washington - President Obama's appointment of "czars," or policy coordinators, is drawing new fire from lawmakers in both parties. The most prominent complaint is that Obama, by using his own authority to name people to these policy jobs, is circumventing the role of the Senate in considering and confirming important nominations to the president's administration. In a letter to the president this week, Sen. Susan Collins (R- Maine) and five other Republican lawmakers criticized the administration for encroaching on Congress' authority in establishing what it said were too many far-reaching czars. Collins identified 18 positions created by Obama...

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - Even before neuroscientist Zach Hall was formally given the job Tuesday to run California's $3 billion stem cell research institute, his salary came under fire. Charles Halpern, a Berkeley writer who filed a legal petition with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine protesting some of its activities, complained that Hall's $389,004 annual paycheck to serve as interim president was too lucrative. Halpern and other institute critics complained that the institute president should be paid a salary comparable to the head of the National Institutes of Health, which is roughly $100,000 less than Hall's pay. The language...