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UAW members continue to strike against the Big Three automakers. Last month, Joe Biden became the first sitting U.S. President to join a picket line outside a General Motors facility in Michigan. WAMC's Capital Region Bureau Chief Dave Lucas has reaction from union leaders in the Northeast.
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With states of emergency declared in Orange, Rockland, Rensselaer and Broome counties, leaders in other municipalities are weighing in on the prospect of admitting asylum seekers as Governor Kathy Hochul looks to Washington for assistance.
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President Biden has made it official: he’s running for re-election in 2024. Biden is hoping his legislative achievements and a call to work together will resonate with voters, who remain bitterly divided and dissatisfied with Washington. Biden would be 86 at the end of his second term, and faces a possible 2020 rematch against former President Donald Trump — or a matchup with a number of other ambitious Republicans. For analysis we’re joined by New York state Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs.
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Biden's speech will be carried live on WAMC at 9 p.m.
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In January of 2021, the Biden administration inherited the most daunting array of challenges since FDR’s presidency: a lethal pandemic, a plummeting economy, an unresolved twenty-year war, and the aftermath of an attack on the Capitol that polarized the country. Waves of crises followed, including the fallout from a divisive Supreme Court, raging inflation, and Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Now, in "The Fight of His Life," prizewinning journalist Chris Whipple takes us inside the Oval Office as the critical decisions of Biden’s presidency are being made.
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President Biden visited an IBM facility in Poughkeepsie Thursday to tout the CHIPS and Science Act he signed earlier this year. The Democrat’s visit comes weeks before the key November midterms.
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President Joe Biden will announce the new initiatives Thursday during a trip to New York City, where he’ll also showcase his plan on working with state and local law enforcement to get guns and repeat shooters off the streets
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Bless having an adult in the White House. I call Biden Uncle Joe, because I’m confident he’s working for us, not just for power. He’s human. He makes mistakes but he’s trying. I’m on his team and want him on mine.
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President Joe Biden argued that investments in child care and other social safety net programs are imperative to keep America competitive in the global economy during a visit to a child care center in Connecticut on Friday.
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The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. But as # 1 internationally bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis. Their book is "Peril."