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On Cuba, Biden should learn from Obama

Barack Obama's historic 2015 handshake with Raúl Castro signaled a new day. Was Joe Biden paying attention?

Salon

Fabiola Santiago: Cuba blackmails the US with exodus. Biden responds with ill-timed, mostly weak policy

After promising voters he would take a fresh look at U,S,-Cuba policy, President Joe Biden has delivered, 16 months into his term, ill-timed, mostly mediocre change that portends to help the Cuban people.

Miami Herald

How the war in Ukraine is challenging the long-sought pivot to Asia

President Biden is traveling to Japan and South Korea this week — his first trip to Asia since taking office. Like presidents before him, he's seeking to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward Asia.

WEKU

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U.S. adviser tries to talk Mexican president out of skipping Summit of the Americas

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador threatened to skip this year's summit in the United States if Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are excluded.

WEKU

The Christian leader trying to break America’s link between faith and guns

Peter Cook says in the aftermath of the Buffalo racist shooting white Christian denominations have a duty to act

The Guardian - US

Defeated GOP primary candidate blames Sean Hannity for her loss accusing him of ‘flat out lies’

‘Almost single-handedly, Sean Hannity sowed seeds of disinformation, flat-out lies every night for the past five days’

The Independent UK

Editorial: Biden administration has just propped up Cuba’s failing dictatorship. Thanks, Mr. President

In a single move, President Joe Biden just gave Cuba’s aging, creaky regime new oxygen to continue to exist, living on to oppress those who oppose it on the island.

Miami Herald

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Book explores Sandy Hook, Alex Jones, and why modern conspiracy theories have been so contagious

In late April, one week before a trial began that would decide how much Alex Jones should pay the families of first-graders murdered in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, the conspiracy theorist filed a motion in federal bankruptcy court. Jones, at the helm of a multi-million…

Chicago Tribune

Analysis: Condolence calls from elite show UAE ruler's power

The United Arab Emirates' newly appointed president has been receiving condolence visits from the world's leaders for days now in Abu Dhabi

The Independent UK

Cuba brands U.S. rollback of curbs as light on detail, heavy on hostility

By Dave Sherwood

Reuters

White House moves to loosen remittance, flight rules on Cuba

The Biden administration says it will expand flights to Cuba and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island

The Independent UK

Press secretary hopes her rise helps kids 'dream bigger'

President Joe Biden's new spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, says she hopes kids will “dream big and dream bigger” because she's now the White House press secretary

The Independent UK

Biden eases restrictions on Cuban travel and remittances

The White House plans to make it easier for families to visit relatives in Cuba and increase visa processing on the island, reversing some of former President Trump's policies.

WEKU

Obama, Airbnb's Brian Chesky launch $100M in scholarships

The co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, has donated $100 million to the Obama Foundation to fund scholarships for students pursuing careers in public service and includes multiple stipends for travel

The Independent UK

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Los Angeles Times

Karine Jean-Pierre steps into the bright White House spotlight

WASHINGTON — As a young staffer working in the Obama White House, Karine Jean-Pierre was surprised the first time she struck up a conversation with then-Vice President Joe Biden.

The Independent UK

GOP Senate candidate defends falsely claiming Obama was Muslim because he was taking in refugees from Syria

During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Kathy Barnette was asked about several of the offensive tweets

Reason

Brickbat: Class Discussion

In Roswell, Georgia, Centennial High School said in a statement that a substitute teacher caught on video in an expletive-filled classroom rant has been fired. The teacher, who wasn't named, told students that "When I was in high school, I was learning about Obama increasing drone strikes in my [expletive]…

Tribune News Service

Barnette deflects past comments in Pennsylvania GOP Senate race

Political commentator Kathy Barnette, who has surged into a three-way tie in Pennsylvania’s closely watched Republican U.S. Senate primary, defended most of her previous incendiary comments as taken out of context as she faces new scrutiny.

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The Independent UK

Buffalo shooting: Anti-racism experts condemn ‘great replacement’ conspiracy pushed by Tucker Carlson and GOP

Attack that killed 10 people at grocery store on Saturday was latest example of attacker espousing the far-right conspiracy theory

The Guardian - US

‘A history maker’: Karine Jean-Pierre set for White House press secretary role

She will be the first Black openly gay woman to step into the role, a symbol of change after the Donald Trump era

The New Daily

Melania Trump accuses Vogue of bias for not giving her a cover

Former first lady Melania Trump has accused fashion magazine Vogue of bias for not putting her on the cover during her time in the White House.

Salon

How Democrats found God — and doomed Roe

Democrats' slide into Christian nationalism may have gotten Clinton and Obama elected. But it came at a big price

The Independent UK

As Musk buyout looms, Twitter searches for its soul

A toxic cesspool

The Independent UK

As Musk buyout looms, Twitter searches for its soul

A toxic cesspool

Reuters

UAE's newly elected ruler sees Iran, Islamists as threat to Gulf safe haven

United Arab Emirates strongman Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who was formally elected president on Saturday, led a realignment of the Middle East that created a new anti-Iran axis with Israel and fought a rising tide of political Islam in the region.

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