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Bloomberg
an hour ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Trump Tariffs Face Threat at Supreme Court — Over Rulings That Blocked Biden
A legal argument that the US Supreme Court used to foil Joe Biden on climate change and student debt now looms as a threat to President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs. During Biden's presidency, the court's conservative majority ruled that federal agencies can't decide sweeping political and economic matters without clear congressional authorization. That blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from setting deep limits on power-plant pollution and the Education Department from slashing student loans for 40 million people.
The Independent
an hour ago
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- The Independent
Joe Biden delivers first public remarks since prostate cancer diagnosis, says he has ‘no regrets' about not running
Participating in a Memorial Day commemoration, Joe Biden made his first public address since the announcement of his Stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis at a Biden family event in his home state of Delaware on Friday. Speaking to reporters after the event, Biden said he had 'no regrets' about not running for re-election in 2024. At the same time, he dismissed any concerns about his cognitive and physical fitness. 'You can see that I'm mentally incompetent and I can't walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them,' he quipped in response to a reporter noting there's been a 'lot of discussion' about his health while he was in office. That feisty answer sparked speculation online that the former commander-in-chief was referencing the two authors of the recent book Original Sin, which alleges that Biden was in an advanced state of mental decline in the last years of his presidency and the White House covered it up. 'Do you want to reply to any of those reports, and also to the fact that there are some Democrats who are now questioning whether you should have run for reelection in the first place?' the reporter followed up, prompting Biden to reply: 'Why didn't they run against me then? Because I'd have beaten them.' Still, when asked if he had any regrets about dropping out of the race, Biden said he did not and that 'we're in a really difficult moment, not only in American history and world history.' As for his current prognosis, he said he was already undergoing treatment and that his doctors are 'very optimistic' about his chances. 'It's all a matter of taking a pill, one particular pill,' he said. 'And for the next six weeks, and then another one. And the expectation is we're going to be able to beat this. There's no it's not in any organ. My bones are strong. It hasn't penetrated. So I'm feeling good.' Furthermore, he defended his record as president, saying he was 'very proud' of his administration's accomplishments and he'd put his 'record as president against any president at all.' 'My friends, Memorial Day is about something profound,' a somewhat fired-up Biden declared during the speech. 'Our politics have become so divided and bitter. All the years I have been doing this, I never thought we would get to this point, but we are.' He added: 'Our troops do not wear a uniform that says I'm a Democrat or a Republican. It says, I am an American!' While the 82-year-old former commander-in-chief did cough a couple of times during the short speech, it appeared he was just trying to clear his throat as he attempted to deliver an energized address to the audience, which was filled with his family, friends and state officials. He also used the speech to acknowledge his deceased son Beau, who died 10 years ago to the day from brain cancer and served in the Iraq War. Biden has said he believes Beau got the cancer from exposure to toxic burn pits in Iraq. 'I know for many of you, Memorial Day is deeply personal. For the Bidens, this day is the 10th anniversary of the loss of my son Beau, who served in Iraq,' he said. 'It is a hard day.' Much of the speech, of course, centered on honoring veterans and those who have given their lives fighting for the country. 'Because of them, American democracy has endured for nearly 250 years. Every generation, every generation has to fight to maintain that democracy every time, every generation,' the former president exclaimed. 'Because of them, our government is still of the people, by the people, and for the people. They are we, and we are still free. Now, we must make sure that sacrifice has never been in vain.' At the end of the speech, Biden walked off to applause while a man towards the back repeatedly shouted something towards the former president, though it wasn't clear if he was heckling Biden or cheering him on. The former president's office announced last week that he had been diagnosed with an 'aggressive' form of cancer after doctors found a small nodule on his prostate, resulting in further evaluations. Eventually, it was discovered that Biden had prostate cancer that was 'characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.' 'While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,' a Biden spokesperson added. 'The president and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.' Though Biden only took veiled shots at the current administration, and his successor, Donald Trump, couldn't resist directly attacking the former president during his own Memorial Day speech, which was meant to honor America's fallen heroes. 'That was a hard four years we went through — who would let that happen?' Trump grumbled. 'People pouring through our borders, unchecked, people doing things that are indescribable.' Meanwhile, the ex-president's cancer diagnosis comes as he and his close aides and family have come under renewed fire over Biden's cognitive and physical decline during his time in the White House, largely due to the release of the Robert Hur tapes and the publication of several recent books. Specifically, the recently published Original Sin, co-authored by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson, alleges that there was a White House 'cover-up' to conceal Biden's flailing health as the 2024 election approached. With Tapper and Thompson doing an extensive media tour to promote the book, Republicans and conservative media have called for a congressional investigation into the former administration's handling of Biden's declining health.
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Democrats grapple with Biden cover-up fallout ahead of 2028
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The 2024 elections were defined for many by damning allegations that then-President Joe Biden was not only experiencing mental and physical decline, but that his inner circle was obfuscating the true severity of his health challenges. As Democrats eye a return to the White House in 2028, those allegations have resurfaced — this time haunting a party split over how to regain voters' trust. While some have advocated for a full postmortem to enable the party to move on once and for all, others insist the Democrats should focus on the future without relitigating the past. Democrats face a "fresh reckoning" over Biden's health, with "potential presidential contenders" avoiding debate on whether the party should have "forcefully called on him to abandon his reelection bid earlier," said Politico. Whether or not to criticize Biden or to address his camp's insistence that he was fit for campaigning is "fast becoming the first real litmus test of the 2028" race, given how many Democrats "with 2028 ambitions" were "defending him at the time." The upcoming publication of "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson has contributed to the "renewed questions" about who knew what about Biden's health when, which are "sending shivers" through the party, said The Washington Post. To "regain the trust of voters," some have argued that party leaders must "state openly that Biden should never have sought reelection" last year. That Democratic Party leadership has been "unwilling to reckon publicly" with supporting Biden's campaign "for as long as it did" suggests a "lasting fear of speaking out," said The New York Times. There is an awareness among some that by speaking out against Biden's 2024 fitness now, they have exposed themselves to "questions about why they said nothing when it mattered." "We're not looking backward," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said of rehashing Biden's health at a press conference last week. "We're looking forward at this moment in time." While backward-looking "self-flagellations" by Democrats are often "excessive and pointless," in this case they are "needed," said Michael Tomasky at The New Republic. It's necessary not only for unpacking who may have inappropriately protected Biden's candidacy, but also for the "automatic anointing of Kamala Harris after Biden dropped out," which Democrats should "examine and learn from." Mainstream political media is also implicated in questions about knowledge of Biden's health. There is an "unhealthy confluence of interests" between White House staff and White House reporters, said John Fund at the National Review. By failing to recognize "how powerful a motivation their sources had to deceive them," the political media "failed in their duty to probe more deeply and question the official White House line." Fallout from questions about Biden's health may also affect other future candidates for office who played roles in his administration. Such potential candidates may find their campaigns "forced to address what they knew and what they did," USA Today said. Conversely, high-profile Democrats with "some distance" from the Biden 2024 team (people like Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker or New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) could see their careers "boosted as the sort of fresh faces the party needs."
Yahoo
2 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office said Sunday. Biden, 82, received the diagnosis on Friday and he and his family are "reviewing treatment options." Biden's office said his cancer was given a Gleason score of 9, with 10 being the most malignant. "While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management," the statement said. Once it has metastasized to the bones, "it's very treatable, but not curable," Dr. Matthew Smith of Massachusetts General Brigham Cancer Center told The Associated Press. Cancer and tragedy have been a "recurring part of Biden's personal and political life," The Washington Post said. He "dedicated much of his later career to cancer research after losing his son Beau to brain cancer in 2015." When launching his 2022 "cancer moonshot" to halve the U.S. cancer death rate over 25 years, Biden said it could be an "American moment to prove to ourselves and, quite frankly, the world that we can do really big things." Thanks to prostate cancer treatments developed in the past few years, "life is measured in years now, not months," University of Washington specialist Dr. Daniel Lin told The New York Times. People with metastatic prostate cancer "can live 5, 7, 10 or more years," said Dr. Judd Moul at Duke University. So an octagenarian like Biden "could hopefully pass away from natural causes and not from prostate cancer."
Arab News
3 hours ago
- Business
- Arab News
US judge prevents Trump from invalidating 5,000 Venezuelans' legal documents
NEW YORK: A federal judge prevented the Trump administration from invalidating work permits and other documents granting lawful status to about 5,000 Venezuelans, a subset of the nearly 350,000 whose temporary legal protections the US Supreme Court last week allowed to be terminated. US District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco in a Friday night ruling concluded that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem likely exceeded her authority when she in February invalidated those documents while more broadly ending the temporary protected status granted to the Venezuelans. The US Supreme Court on May 19 lifted an earlier order Chen issued that prevented the administration as part of President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration agenda from terminating deportation protection conferred to Venezuelans under the Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, program. But the high court stated specifically it was not preventing any Venezuelans from still challenging Noem's related decision to invalidate documents they were issued pursuant to that program that allowed them to work and live in the United States. Such documents were issued after the US Department of Homeland Security in the final days of Democratic President Joe Biden's tenure extended the TPS program for the Venezuelans by 18 months to October 2026, an action Noem then moved to reverse. TPS is available to people whose home country has experienced a natural disaster, armed conflict or other extraordinary event. Lawyers for several Venezuelans and the advocacy group National TPS Alliance asked Chen to recognize the continuing validity of those documents, saying without them thousands of migrants could lose their jobs or be deported. Chen in siding with them said nothing in the statute that authorized the Temporary Protected Status program allowed Noem to invalidate the documents. Chen, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, noted the administration estimated only about 5,000 of the 350,000 Venezuelans held such documents. 'This smaller number cuts against any contention that the continued presence of these TPS holders who were granted TPS-related documents by the Secretary would be a toll on the national or local economies or a threat to national security,' Chen wrote. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment on Saturday. Chen ruled hours after the US Supreme Court in a different case allowed Trump's administration to end the temporary immigration 'parole' granted to 532,000 Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants under a different Biden-era program.
