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Jeffries warns about Republican cuts to Medicaid, slams Elon Musk for making $8 million per day

House Democratic leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., railed against Republicans after their party passed a budget bill that would extend President Donald Trump‘s 2017 tax cuts law and enact new tax cuts totaling more than $4 trillion. In an effort to pay for such massive tax cuts, the Republican budget calls for huge spending cuts. On Thursday, during his weekly press conference, Jeffries warned that Medicaid will be on the chopping block as a result. “Every single member of the […]

todayFebruary 28, 2025

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On National Girls & Women in Sports Day, Trump moves to ban trans athletes

While marking the 39th annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day, President Donald Trump chose a controversial way to recognize it. Since returning to office, Trump has signed a series of executive orders, his latest one taking direct aim at the transgender community and women’s sports. On Wednesday afternoon at the White House, Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” “The radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of […]

todayFebruary 5, 2025

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Biden urges Americans to ‘keep the faith’ as he spends final full day as president in South Carolina

 Joe Biden spent his final full day as president Sunday in South Carolina, urging Americans to “keep the faith in a better day to come” and reflecting on the influence of both the civil rights movement and the state itself in his political trajectory. On the eve of Monday’s inauguration of Republican President-elect Donald Trump, Biden delivered a final farewell from a state that holds special meaning after his commanding win in its 2020 Democratic primary set him up to achieve his life’s goal […]

todayJanuary 23, 2025

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We must resurrect the true ideals of Dr. King this MLK Day as we inaugurate a new president

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. On his last full day in office, President Joe Biden spoke at a South Carolina Black church about his vision for a just society one day before the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I first got involved in public life because of the Civil Rights Movement,” Biden said at the Royal Missionary Baptist Church in Charleston. […]

todayJanuary 19, 2025 2

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NAACP President: With two weeks until Inauguration Day, we’re calling on Biden to take urgent action

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio In 2020, when he was officially declared as the next president of the United States, Joe Biden sent a clear message to Black America: I have your back. Now, with less than two weeks to go until Inauguration Day, President Biden still has the opportunity to cement his progressive legacy, and deliver on three critical promises he made to our community. First, […]

todayJanuary 8, 2025

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Bernice King explains why she’s ‘glad’ Trump’s inauguration is on Martin Luther King Day

When Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States at his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, it will coincidentally fall on the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s Democratic opponent in the 2024 presidential election, had hoped that the day would instead mark a historic moment in Black history that would’ve seen Harris sworn in as the first Black female president and only the second […]

todayNovember 25, 2024

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Many in Gaza are eating just once a day, as hunger spreads amid aid issues

Yasmin Eid coughs and covers her face, cooking a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and scrap paper in the tent she shares with her husband and four young daughters in the Gaza Strip. It was their only meal Wednesday — it was all they could afford. “My girls suck on their thumbs because of how hungry they are, and I pat their backs until they sleep,” she said. After being displaced five times, the Eids reside […]

todayNovember 22, 2024

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These 2024 candidates could make Black history this Election Day

Election Day is upon us, and the entire country (and the globe) will be tuned in to determine its outcome. While there will be many winners and losers when it’s all said and done, some candidates stand to make Black history Tuesday night. Here are the races theGrio is tracking: Kamala Harris Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally on the Ellipse on October 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) […]

todayNovember 10, 2024

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Here’s what to watch as Election Day approaches in the U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day is nearly upon us. In a matter of hours, the final votes in the 2024 presidential election will be cast. In a deeply divided nation, the election is a true toss-up between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. We know there are seven battleground states that will decide the outcome, barring a major surprise. But major questions persist about the timing of the results, the makeup of the electorate, the influx of misinformation — even the possibility of political […]

todayNovember 5, 2024