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The toll of police brutality in America was on painful display as family members of Black men and women killed in custody sit alongside lawmakers in the House to hear the president’s State of the Union address

WASHINGTON — President Biden is delivering his second State of the Union speech, and hoping to convince skeptical Americans that they are better off than they were when he took office two years ago.

Read President Biden’s full State of the Union address

Read President Biden's State of the Union speech delivered on Feb. 7, 2023, as prepared for delivery.

‘The people sent us a clear message. Fighting for the sake of fighting, power for the sake of power, conflict for the sake of conflict, gets us nowhere’

Scene 1: One day on Twitter Glenn Greenwald: Republicans criticizing Rep. Omar for saying Israel has hypnotized the world shows that members of Congress prefer Israel's interests to Americans' right to free speech. Rep. Omar: It's all about the Benjamins. Scene 2, later on Twitter< The crowd: That's antisemitic! You…

Cuban American icon Celia Cruz is being honored along with four other influential American women as part of the American Women Quarters Program.

What we can learn from the State of the Union addresses by Jimmy Carter in 1979, Richard Nixon in 1971, and JFK in 1963

President Biden will give Americans a progress report on his four-part Unity Agenda, which he announced at last year's State of the Union address.

Police have made a fresh call for information about a 20-year-old unsolved murder case

It might be comforting to think that American democracy has made it past the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. But our research shows that a wide range of the American people, of all political stripes, seek leaders who are fundamentally anti-democratic.