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Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, named George Floyd in his news conference, as well as Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, two other victims whose deaths have sparked national outrage. He asked Americans who are not black what they would do if their children were in danger every time they left the house. “Imagine if every time your husband or son, wife or daughter, left the house, you feared for their safety from bad actors and bad police,” Biden said....

Where Trump antagonized Mexico and Central American countries, leaning on them to increase enforcement along their borders, and overturning years of policy related to the asylum system while instituting a controversial Remain in Mexico policy, Biden has for years believed that the state of Latin American countries must first measurably improve for immigration to slow. Biden made his views clear in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed titled “The Border Won’t Be Secure Until Central America Is....

According to a new Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) survey, conducted by pollster TIPP, Biden’s approval rating has risen to 49.1 percent, only marginally lower than his disapproval rating of 50.9 percent, once undecided voters are excluded. This gives Biden a net approval rating of minus two, up from minus nine in December 2022 when the monthly survey was last conducted. The IBD/TIPP survey, of 1,200 American adults, was conducted online between January 4 and January 6....

A Gallup poll released last week found 57 percent of U.S. adults approved of Biden’s job performance—far exceeding Donald Trump’s 100-day historically low approval rating of 41 percent, but falling short of Barack Obama and George W. Bush, both of whom had approval ratings over 60 percent. Biden has been extremely consistent in his job approval score since entering office. Gallup found the Democrat averaged a 56 percent approval rating during his first quarter in office, from January 20 through April 19....

The poll, conducted by Morning Consult from March 5 to 8, showed Biden besting Trump by 7 points, 48 percent to 41 percent among all voters. That’s a 3 percent increase from February, when the gap was just 4 points. However, 11 percent of respondents still said they do not know or have no opinion on the potential match-up. Biden also beats Trump among independent voters. The Morning Consult data showed that 41 percent of the demographic currently back Biden, while just 35 percent said they back Trump....

Biden has also approved a major disaster declaration for Louisiana, which made federal funding available to affected individuals in several parishes across the state. In a speech Thursday addressing Hurricane Ida response efforts, the president said: “Tomorrow, I’ll be traveling to Louisiana to meet with Governor John Bel Edwards, as well as the parish presidents and mayors and the local officials representing the affected areas. Biden added: “My message to everyone affected is: We’re all in this together....

Under President Biden’s proposal, families with youngsters under 6 years of age will enjoy up to $3,600 in child tax credit, raised from $2,000 yearly. Low-income parents earning too little to pay income taxes will receive a cash refund from the IRS for the first time. Working parents would gain another $4,000 to defray the cost of child care for toddlers and preschoolers, also made refundable for low-wage workers under Mr....

The press pool accompanying Biden said Tuesday morning that the Democratic candidate and his wife Jill entered St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic church in Greenville, Delaware, at 7:10 a.m. After a service lasting around an hour, NPR political correspondent Scott Detrow—who is accompanying the vice president—said Biden visited his son Beau’s grave. “Joe Biden is beginning what could be the most important day of his life the way he’s begun many others: Mass at his parish,” Detrow wrote....

The executive actions will block new oil and natural gas leases on public land or offshore waters, designate climate change as a national security priority, and reestablish scientific and technological advisory committees, among other directives. The goal is to “help drive our nation toward a clean energy future, creating well-paying jobs with the opportunity to join a union, and delivering justice for communities who have been subjected to environmental harm,” according to a summary the administration provided to Newsweek....

Biden was interrupted by a male protester as he addressed his supporters at a Michigan campaign rally earlier today. As the vice president was giving his speech to the crowd, someone from the audience began chanting “Hey hey ho ho, Joe Biden has got to go!”, which prompted the candidate to stop and his supporters to begin chanting “Let’s go, Joe.” The protesters then unfurled banners, one of which said, “NAFTA killed our jobs,” referring to Biden’s 1994 vote in favor of the trade agreement between the U....

So, what’s going on? The answer is simple—the meme factory strikes again. But it’s worth looking more closely at how two ordinary videos were turned into instruments to undermine the president. One of the videos that has been widely shared in the past few days actually dates back to September 10, 2021, when Joe and Jill Biden visited Brookland Middle School in Washington, D.C. In the original clip posted on C-SPAN, the president can be seen walking away during the first lady’s speech about how to keep children safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, only to return to her side some 10 seconds later....

“He is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological and chemical weapons, because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming,” Biden said during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser in New York City on Thursday. “I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily use tactical nuclear weapons and not end up with armageddon.” Biden said Putin’s rhetoric had put the world at the highest risk of nuclear destruction since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, a tense period that nearly resulted in a war between the U....

Burrow suffered a gruesome-looking finger injury late in the first half of the contest. He scrambled for a touchdown to cut the Chargers’ lead to 11 but came up with the pinky finger in his throwing hand pointing in the wrong direction. NFL PLAYOFF PICTURE: Updates to standings, playoff picture for Week 13 Burrow spent the Chargers’ next drive on the sideline testing various tape jobs on his finger. He appeared to be in immense discomfort while dealing with the injury and attempting to grip and throw the ball....

Following a season in which he won the College Football Playoff with LSU and the Heisman Trophy by a landslide—only the 16th player in history to win both in the same year—Burrow is widely expected to be selected by the Bengals with the first overall pick in the NFL draft in April. For a team as starved of success as the Bengals have been in recent years, the prospect of picking the best quarterback in college football is enormously exciting, even more so given Burrow’s connection to Ohio....

Dirt, Sunday’s Grand Marshal, passed along some interesting knowledge to the two drivers on how to conquer “Dirt-ona.” Although Harvick is a former Daytona 500 and Coke Zero 400 winner, the star of the upcoming movie, “Joe Dirt 2,” told him its OK if he didn’t know what he was doing and not to be embarrassed because “we were all rookies once.” MORE: Drivers hoping Daytona sparks their season | NASCAR’s most eligible bachelors...

Exotic, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced to 22 years in prison after a 2019 conviction for paying a hitman $3,000 to kill his nemesis, animal rights activist Carole Baskin, as well as 17 counts of animal cruelty. After becoming a Netflix star via Tiger King last year, Exotic, who has maintained his innocence in the murder-for-hire plot, launched a campaign for Trump to pardon him before leaving office, though his efforts ultimately proved futile....

“Our strategy to reallocate our future marketing assets into new programs is strictly a business decision to align our priorities to better serve our customer in this rapidly changing retail environment,” the company said in a statement to ESPN. MORE: 2016 Sprint Cup winners | Complete Charlotte race week schedule According to the ESPN report, Dollar General has sponsored 30 races in each of the past two seasons with the 2003 Cup champion....

FAGAN: Even with ‘slow’ start, Ohtani still a top MVP candidate Maddon was in his third year at the helm of the Halos, but his term was largely three years of mediocrity (157-172 record), even with generational talents Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani doing a substantial number of impressive things, injuries and recent struggles notwithstanding. But the Angels’ failures do not lie solely at Maddon‘s feet. Just as the Phillies, who also recently fired a Joe after a few disappointing seasons, have plenty of blame to go around, the Angels as an organization have left a lot to be desired, having consistently failed to address its pitching needs and to add the right other pieces to surround its marquee players....

The Cubs manager offered up that solution during a postgame soliloquy Wednesday night, shortly after review officials upheld the final out of the game in a 5-2 Chicago loss to the Dodgers. MORE: Which NL teams will be buyers? Sellers? Maddon disagreed with the ruling, which let stand the on-field call that Scott Van Slyke had thrown out the Cubs’ Chris Denorfia at second base as he tried to stretch a ninth-inning hit into a double....

The Senate elected to block Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for businesses with over 100 employees by a vote of 52-48, with Manchin and Tester being the only members of the Democratic caucus to vote in favor of the legislation. The bill is virtually certain to never become law, as Democrats are unlikely to take it up in the House. In addition, even if the bill were somehow passed by Congress, Biden could still neutralize it with what would likely be an override-proof veto....