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How speechwriters delve into a president’s mind: Lots of listening, studying and becoming a mirror

Speechwriting, in one sense, is essentially being someone else's mirror.

Nikki Haley suggests she’s no longer bound by RNC pledge to support GOP nominee

Nikki Haley questioned Sunday whether she should still be bound by a pledge to the Republican National Committee to support whoever is the eventual GOP nominee.

Attorney General Garland tells Alabama’s Bloody Sunday service that voting rights are under attack

Attorney General Merrick Garland told parishioners at a Selma church service commemorating the 59th anniversary of the attack by Alabama law officers on Civil Rights demonstrators that voting rights are endangered in much of the nation.

Malaysia signals it may revive search for missing flight MH370, a decade later 

Malaysia's Ministry of Transport said Sunday a Texas-based company could revive its search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), as the 10th anniversary of its mysterious disappearance approaches this week. Ocean Infinity has proposed another "no find, no fee" search of the seabeds in the southern Indian Ocean, five years after the company ended its...

Schumer on 6-bill minibus: Proud to keep government open ‘without cuts or poison pill riders’

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) hailed a package of six government funding bills on Sunday as “good news” that prevents a government shutdown “without cuts or poison pill riders.” Schumer and congressional leaders unveiled the long-awaited package Sunday afternoon, with hopes to get the set passed before a March 8 partial government shutdown deadline....

Montana Republican seeks to knit Trump, Senate GOP as campaign chief

Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) didn’t waste any time after the Alabama Supreme Court threatened to upend the political cycle by ruling that frozen embryos are people. Reproductive rights issues had given Democrats a big leg up in 2022 while Republicans struggled to communicate cohesively in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...

Harris calls Gaza ‘humanitarian catastrophe,’ urges Israel to increase aid

Vice President Harris pressured the Israeli government to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza on Sunday, calling the situation in the war-torn region a “humanitarian catastrophe.” “What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating,” Harris said in a Selma, Ala., speech on Sunday. “We have seen reports of families eating leaves or animal food....

Garland, Harris mark Alabama’s Bloody Sunday in Selma

Vice President Harris, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) were among the procession that marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., this weekend in remembrance of Bloody Sunday, when police attacked hundreds of civil rights protesters in 1965. In a speech early Sunday, Garland warned that the same voting rights...

Jen Psaki: ‘Real legacy’ of Mitch McConnell is ‘a cynic focused on power’

MSNBC’s Jen Psaki slammed Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) “real legacy” as that of a “cynic focused on power.” Psaki discussed McConnell’s announcement last week that he would be stepping down from his leadership role in the Senate Republican Conference next November. She said on “Inside with Jen Psaki” that his latest news is the “perfect...

The US must do more to hold the Taliban accountable

The United States should also lead initiatives that encourage international cooperation from ally and regional countries, institutions, and organizations, including support for independent media active in Afghanistan to fill current information vacuums.

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