Biden Admin: Docs must offer abortion if mom’s life at risk
The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk.
Topic: Joe Biden
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July 2022
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May 2022
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Kustoff addresses national concerns, midterm elections
The congressman told local business leaders the midterms could be a “wave election.” He believes Republicans could gain control of the nation’s House and Senate.
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September 2021
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Biden declares sweeping new vaccine mandate for 100M Americans
The rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require them to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans. And the roughly 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid also will have to be fully vaccinated.
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August 2021
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Memphis near the eye of national mask debate storm
Tennessee finds itself at the center of a national debate over whether mask mandates promote public health at the expense of citizens’ liberty.
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July 2021
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MPD chief meets with Biden to talk violent crime
During the Monday meeting at the White House with Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis and other police chiefs, President Biden said federal, state and local coordination is essential to his violent crime strategy.
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March 2021
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Biden sets May 1 target to have all adults vaccine eligible
President Joe Biden used his first prime-time address Thursday night to announce his plan to make all adults vaccine eligible by May 1 and “begin to mark our independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July.
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Biden to follow virus-aid bill with national address
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law the $1.9 trillion relief package. The signing came hours before Biden delivers his first prime-time address since taking office.
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February 2021
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TennCare explainer: A look at what changes
What do the changes to the state’s TennCare program mean? Here’s a breakdown of the changes.
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Lee to deliver State of the State, with focus on economic recovery
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January 2021
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State’s COVID vaccine supply increases under Biden plan
Tennesseans will be vaccinated against COVID-19 faster beginning early next week after President Joe Biden announced a massive purchase of doses, an increased weekly allocation to states and other moves to manage the pandemic.
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Herrington: Goodbye to all that, as the Trump years end
The new president’s inaugural address called for unity and a lowering of the political temperature while still drawing some firm lines. Joe Biden said that “politics need not be a raging fire” and called for an end to an “uncivil war.”
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Sanford: Tennesseans, politicians and others must answer for insurrection
As we look ahead with hope, we must also look back and demand accountability.
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At Celtic Crossing, they’ll celebrate a hometown hero on Inauguration Day
Celtic Crossing hosts a party on Jan. 20 to raise a pint to the new president, one a little town in Ireland claims as its own.
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Sanford: At this swearing-in, unity is missing, replaced by anxiety
On Jan. 20, 2009, there was remarkable unity and mutual respect among those in an inauguration crowd estimated at 1.8 million. Now, 12 years later, Jan. 20 promises to be a day of anticipation mixed with anxiety.
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Opinion: Cries of election fraud are less about facts, more about race
At the heart of claims by Trump and his horde of conspiracy theorists is that it was statistically and historically impossible for Trump to lose the election, other than through fraud. How could they believe such grand-scale treachery occurred? The answer, sadly, is rooted in race.
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November 2020
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Regime change could benefit Memphis economy
A Democrat in the White House and divided control of Congress may be good for the city: relaxed trade and immigration policies, more stimulus spending, status quo on taxes.
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Opinion: Black men supporting Trump chose policy over character
One of the major side stories to the 2020 presidential election is the noticeable shift of more African American men to Trump and his brand of politics.
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President-elect Joe Biden calls for unity
“I sought this office to restore the soul of America,” 77-year-old Biden said in a Saturday night victory speech not far from his Delaware home.
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Biden says he’s prepping for White House
While neither presidential candidate has reached the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the White House, Joe Biden is on the verge and told Americans in a Friday night address that he and running mate Kamala Harris are taking meetings on assuming leadership.
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Biden expresses optimism as vote count continues
The fate of the presidency hangs in the balance as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden fight for the last handful of battleground states.
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In a year of uncertainty, presidential outcome fits the pattern
Millions of voters put aside worries about the virus — and some long lines — to turn out in person, joining 102 million fellow Americans who voted days or weeks earlier, a record number that represented 73% of the total vote in the 2016 presidential election.
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Opinion: Tennessee feels rural/urban divide
The Trump presidency has accelerated preexisting rural/urban divides and Tennessee, while not a “battleground” state, is one of the states where those divisions are most deeply felt.
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August 2020
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Akbari to give keynote speech at Democratic National Convention
State Sen. Raumesh Akbari will give a keynote speech Tuesday, Aug. 18, with 16 other “rising stars” at the Democratic National Convention.
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Sanford: Biden’s bet on Harris is backed by the numbers
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is counting on his choice of running mate Kamala Harris to bring in new and reenergized voters in key battleground states.
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May 2020
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Nelson: Who casts Tennessee’s electoral votes, and why it matters now
“Faithless electors” – those who were elected to support the nominee of their party, then voted for someone else – have been rare. In the 13 presidential elections from 1964 to 2012 there were six. But in 2016 alone, there were seven faithless electors.
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March 2020
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Conaway: The reality of old white men
A collection of old white men may sound like a Cabinet meeting in Washington or a Senate vote, but it was just another Tuesday and the regular meeting of my “and I’ll tell you another damn thing” lunch group.
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