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‘The world needs you’: Why Javed Akhtar urged Michelle Obama to join the White House

Madame please take my words seriously , not only US but the world needs you in White House: Akhtar wrote…

Livemint

Biden Goes to Pot

Ahead of the midterm elections, the president issues a blanket pardon for those convicted of the federal offense of simple…

The Atlantic

U.S. announces new sanctions on Iran, even as it seeks a new nuclear deal

Thursday's announcement of new U.S. sanctions follows pressure from activists for the U.S. to support the protests, following the death…

WEKU

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Why does the Nobel Peace Prize often stir controversy?

With winner from 343 candidates set to be announced on Friday, a look at an award won by Obama, Gorbachev…

Al Jazeera

Commentary: The illegitimate attacks on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy

Legitimacy. The word has dominated discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court for years. Some, mostly on the left, claim that…

Chicago Tribune

VIEWPOINT 2: Immigration may play a more important role in the midterms than you think

After Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election, many political experts expected increasing immigration would hand Democrats consistent electoral…

Tribune News Service

Trump repeats false claim Obama mishandled ‘33 million pages’ of official papers

One-time president also calls FBI secret documents probe a ‘hoax’

The Independent UK

Appeals court rules against program that protects ‘Dreamers’

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled against a decade-old program that protects hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants…

Tribune News Service

DACA remains intact as appeals court sends case challenging its legality back to lower court in Texas

The latest ruling in the long-running legal fight over the program doesn’t change the status quo for the program, which…

The Texas Tribune

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Biden juggles Iran nuke talks as Iranian repression grows

President Joe Biden has hit back at Iran over the government’s brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests and he's signaled that…

The Independent UK

Democrats scored a huge win: Now what?

For more than a decade, Republicans riled up their base with vows to repeal Obamacare. Today, nothing but crickets

Salon

Memo to Biden and DeSantis: Watch Your (Body) Language

The optics of their Florida meeting will be impossible to ignore.

Politico

Commentary: Democrats’ midterm chances are better partly because of one person: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

What a difference six months make. Earlier this year, it was generally conceded that Republicans would sweep to victories in…

Chicago Tribune

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Biden and DeSantis will test their accord during Florida visit

It will be a rare moment of bipartisan calm just a month ahead of Election Day — and two years…

Politico

Air Force One log: Obama, Trump outflew Biden in midterms

Two bouts of COVID and underwater poll ratings took tolls on the president's domestic and campaign travel.

Axios

High court seems chilly to ‘race neutral’ reading of Voting Rights Act

Lower federal courts agreed and ordered a redraw of the maps ahead of the November elections. But the nation’s highest…

Politico

Maggie Haberman’s new Trump book: How Rod Blagojevich got really lucky

Haberman is the New York Times reporter who, as she writes, spent her career at “news outlets Trump cares most…

Chicago Sun-Times

Trump correspondence with Kim Jong Un missing, attorney for National Archives told ex-president's lawyers in May 2021

The top attorney at the National Archives emailed former White House lawyers in May 2021 alerting them that the administration…

Tribune News Service

Barack and Michelle Obama share sweet tributes in honour of their 30th wedding anniversary

‘These last 30 years have been an adventure, and I’m grateful to have you by my side’

The Independent UK

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Election deniers are a threat to democracy. The midterms could be the last chance to stop them.

The Atlantic

Republicans’ lawless leaders at odds with midterm law and order message

Republicans running in next month’s elections cast their party as tough on crime, despite top party names’ legal scrapes

The Guardian - US

MAGA woman calls Obama "Antichrist"

"I went from blue to red to MAGA!" said the Trump supporter at Saturday's rally in Michigan

Salon

KCR asks intellectuals to raise voice on attempts to divide society

CM pays tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, unveils 16-ft-tall statue at Gandhi Hospital

The Hindu

Students scammed by for-profit schools will benefit most from Biden’s loan forgiveness plan

For-profit colleges enroll only 8% of college students, yet they account for 30% of all student loan defaults. These schools…

Chicago Sun-Times

DeSantis shifts from provocateur to crisis manager after Ian

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has whipsawed his way through the national conversation this month, first by putting migrants on planes…

The Independent UK