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“People don’t have a job, people don’t know where to go, they don’t know what to do,” Biden said Thursday. “Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID.” According to a tracker provided by Johns Hopkins University, as of Friday, there are currently at least 124,424 deaths related to the novel coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19, as well as over 2.4 million confirmed cases. According to Fox News, Biden was able to correct himself shortly after, but the pool video of his comments cut off just before then....

The Biden campaign spent $1,063,053,521 between April 1, 2019 and November 23, 2020, according to its post-general election report submitted to the FEC on December 3. He formally announced his candidacy on April 25. This works out to a cost of just over $13 for each of Biden’s 81,271,129 votes. This is about the same amount that previous Democratic presidential candidates spent in recent cycles. The Biden campaign becomes the first in U....

While the news may have been floated in order to boost Biden’s appeal Republicans and independents, the rumor has results in some criticism from the left, who want Biden’s cabinet choices to reflect the recent leftward swing of the party and not include former C level executives. Either way, a GOP cabinet member should not be a surprise, nor should it be much cause for concern. Presidents have long taken a bipartisan approach to the cabinet....

Joe Biden and I both suffer from a stutter. I was diagnosed with a mild speech impediment at an early age; Biden said last year that he’s “worked [his] whole life to overcome a stutter.” While I obviously can not speak to the state of Biden’s cognitive abilities as a 77-year-old public figure (his doctor recently described him as “healthy” and “vigorous”), I can shed light on some of the shared experiences of people with a speech impediment....

The White House announced Biden would introduce a series of measures aimed at tackling the ongoing border issue, something Republicans and other critics, in their view, have lambasted the president for not taking seriously. During his visit, Biden is set to visit El Paso, Texas, a major port of entry for illegal immigration into the United States. While the president is not expected to reveal any new policy details, he is set to confirm plans to reduce pressure on Border agents....

In a Wednesday night interview with Biden, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell asked Biden what he thought about the fact that Cheney is one of the only congressional Republicans willing to publicly say that Republican former President Donald Trump didn’t win the 2020 election. “The Liz Cheney-McCarthy thing is above my paygrade,” Biden said. “I mean, I have enough trouble figuring out my own party all the time, let alone the Republicans....

Overall, the plan aims for a 65 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 by changing the source of electricity for government buildings and updating the fleet of US government vehicles to electric cars and trucks by 2035. All government buildings are supposed to use 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity like wind and solar by 2030 and be entirely carbon-free by 2045, and federal contracts purchasing goods and services are to be carbon-free by 2050....

Two sources familiar with the initiative told Newsweek the Biden campaign will spend $55 million on the campaign as part of an effort that includes targeting Hispanic men—a group President Donald Trump’s and his allies are already focusing on for the November 2020 election. Biden campaign officials confirmed the program is in the works and did not dispute the size of the program, but declined to give specific numbers before publication because they said they are in a transitional planning period....

“I know some wanted to see a larger number today, and so did I,” Biden told reporters at the White House Friday. “But what we’ve seen this year is continued growth, month after month, in job creation.” Biden was referring to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ August report, which showed that only 235,000 jobs were added last month, far fewer than the 728,000 economists had predicted. It’s the lowest monthly growth in jobs since Biden took office in January....

Boris Johnson’s British government has voted in favor of a bill that would give it powers to override parts of the Brexit agreement with the European Union (E.U.), which his own government negotiated and is legally binding. This amendment is to prevent, Johnson said, the E.U. being able to dictate where British borders were. Critics say that this harms the Good Friday Agreement which brokered peace between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland....

Per the Post, Buck’s stint as guest host — which typically have lasted two weeks — will air sometime in the summer and put him in contention to permanently take over the late Alex Trebek. The Post also reported that it would not affect his schedule calling MLB and NFL games for Fox. Assuming no other sports personality assumes the role of guest host before Buck, he would be just the second person from the sports world — following Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers — to host “Jeopardy!...

Hart was deemed surplus to requirements for the 2016-17 season, with Pep Guardiola bringing in Claudio Bravo as a replacement for the England international. Guardiola reveals his coaching icon The 29-year-old decided to make the perhaps surprise move to the Serie A club, completing a temporary switch back on deadline day of the summer transfer window. Hart has gone on to make 13 appearances for Sinisa Mihajlovic’s side and insists that he only concentrating on his loan spell with Torino rather than looking too far ahead....

Joyce (5-0, 5 KOs) came to the realization if he wanted to be part of the action instead of just dreaming about it, he would have to do something. So in July, the 33-year-old packed his bags and made the trek across the Atlantic to California to start a one-month trial with Abel Sanchez, the trainer of former unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin. It lasted a week before they came decided to work together there on out....

In a recent Statista survey of 1,473 U.S. adults, taken between February 19 to 22, 12 percent of respondents said they had a “very” unfavorable opinion of Manchin, while just 4 percent viewed him “very” favorably. An additional 17 percent had a “somewhat” favorable opinion of the Democrat and 20 percent said they viewed him “somewhat” favorably. Manchin’s overall favorability rating sat at negative 11 percent, with a further 47 percent indicating they had no opinion of him....

The West Virginia Democrat told WV News that he backed the next round of stimulus checks being handed to families with incomes not exceeding $100,000, and individuals with incomes of $50,000 at the top end. Manchin also said Americans on lower incomes were those who were “really hurting right now” and needed the most help from federal government. The moderate’s support for further targeting of stimulus checks aligns with proposals put forward 10 Republican senators earlier this week....

Speaking at a COVID press briefing, the Republican said he was proud of Sen. Manchin (D-WV) for holding “the line on what’s reasonable,” as he argued that Washington, D.C., had “tilted so far to the left” over the past year. He added that reforms to the Senate filibuster rule, which effectively allows a minority of at least 41 lawmakers to block legislation, would do grave damage to the country if they went ahead....

Pepitone, the former Yankee first baseman, is suing the Baseball Hall of Fame for failure to return a bat that he says belonged to him that has been displayed in Cooperstown for over 50 years. The former Yankee first baseman says in a lawsuit that the bat that Mickey Mantle used on May 14, 1967 — the day that Mantle hit his 500th career home run — was actually loaned to the Baseball Hall of Fame by a Yankee official — not donated, as the Baseball Hall claims it was....

Rogan told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta the story as proof he isn’t necessarily “anti-vaccine” during a three-hour interview on The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan told the neurosurgeon that he had an appointment to receive the shot in Las Vegas but never showed up. “I’m a healthy person, I exercise constantly, I’m always taking vitamins, I take care of myself,” Rogan said as his reasons for not getting the vaccine, believing that he would be largely unaffected if he contracted the virus....

The president is facing backlash over allegations he may have misplaced or mishandled multiple classified documents while he was vice president, with new and confirmed reports that he kept papers in his garage. During the recent episode of his popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, the host speculated that members of Biden’s team wanted him out of office. He was joined by fellow comedians Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis as Rogan aired his views....

In the six years since the acclaimed NBC sitcom came to an end, there has been ongoing speculation about the possibility of a big screen adaptation of the show. McHale, who portrayed the show’s resident narcissistic Lothario Jeff Winger, has now shared something of an update on the progress—albeit a rather vague update. During an interview on Access Daily, the screen star said: “It’s one of those things where we want to make it and people are like ‘OK....