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Biden confirms Jeff Zients will be chief of staff

Ron Klain is expected to leave the White House after the State of the Union address in February.

Axios

Meet the Justice Department attorney who'll square off in House GOP investigations

WASHINGTON — Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte has spent months preparing to face off against House Republicans as they unleash a gantlet of congressional investigations into the Justice Department.

Los Angeles Times

Cuban American named US ambassador to the OAS wants to champion democracy in the region

MIAMI — Frank Mora, a Miami native and the new U.S. ambassador to the Organization of Americas States, wants to make the organization “even more relevant” amid the “increasing erosion” of the democratic system in Latin America and the Caribbean, he told journalists on Thursday, discarding the possibility that the…

Miami Herald

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National Archives asks former presidents to double check for unauthorised records

Classified documents controversy now envelops two presidents and one vice president

The Independent UK

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Debt ceiling showdown is probably not what Congress imagined in 1917

It began as a way to make it easier for the federal government to sell bonds to finance the U.S. role in World War I.

Tribune News Service

With only a simple yes or no vote available in the referendum, scenes on Invasion Day expose the problem Labor faces

Objections to the date of Australia Day persist, but this year opposition to the voice bubbled to the fore

The Guardian - AU

He’s a corporate executive worth $150m. Can Jeff Zients keep progressives happy and Biden White House on track?

Jeff Zients made a fortune in the private sector before leading the government’s Covid response. Andrew Feinberg reports on the former management consultant’s next big assignment: White House chief of staff

The Independent UK

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Pence discovery raises fresh questions over US handling of classified papers

Biden, Trump and Pence cases prompt calls to tighten government procedures as Republican congressman says ‘the process is broken’

The Guardian - US

Classified records pose conundrum stretching back to Carter

The mishandling of classified documents is not a problem unique to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Jacinda Ardern, Barack Obama and the limits of civility in a polarised age

Could New Zealand descend into right-wing unreason after Ardern, like the US did after 2016?

Newsroom.co.nz

Learning to lie: AI tools adept at creating disinformation

The Independent UK

Commentary: Democrats are now united, and it’s likely to last

This month’s extended fight over the House speakership confirms once again that America’s two major parties don’t operate as mirror images of each other. While Republicans engaged in a dramatic intramural battle — complete with threats, name-calling, and even an attempted physical confrontation — Democrats behaved with relative serenity, electing…

Tribune News Service

Leonard Greene: If Congressman Pants on Fire can get elected, then so can I

As much as I’ve enjoyed my career in journalism, and the perks that have gone along with it, like playing basketball with Barack Obama, or exclusive interviews with the last three popes, I find myself thinking about the next chapter and how best to serve the public.

Tribune News Service

Debt ceiling: 2011 showdown leaves lessons for Biden, GOP

Lessons learned from the debt ceiling standoff more than a decade ago are rippling through Washington

The Independent UK

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn’s Biden Center provided a landing spot for many of the president’s top aides

PHILADELPHIA — When the University of Pennsylvania launched a think tank named for Joe Biden in 2017, it didn’t just create a prestige institution tied to the man who had just left the vice president’s office.

Reason

Biden's Housing Equity Plan Is More Likely To Waste Resources Than Curtail Zoning

Plus: How credit card companies became the porn police, the failure of the FDA's ban on flavored vaping products, and more...

Tribune News Service

Dan Rodricks: An end to racism? Ben Jealous believes it will happen

Since his unsuccessful run for Maryland governor against Larry Hogan in 2018, Benjamin Todd Jealous, former president of the NAACP, has kept up the pace he established as a scholar, activist and entrepreneur before trying politics. He served as president of People for the American Way, has a professorship at…

The Independent UK

Biden’s next climate hurdle: enticing Americans to buy green

President Joe Biden persuaded Democrats in Congress to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to fight climate change

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Biden 2020 campaign chief to stay at White House amid aide swaps

Joe Biden’s deputy chief of staff, Jen O’Malley Dillon, has ruled out returning as campaign manager for the president’s planned 2024 reelection bid, people familiar with the matter say.

The Guardian - US

Biden to name Jeff Zients as new chief of staff after Ron Klain exit – reports

Zients had worked at the White House before as the top official for coordinating the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic

WEKU

Biden is getting a new chief of staff. Jeff Zients will replace Ron Klain

Jeff Zients will take over as the White House faces a slew of congressional investigations. Also looming: the special counsel probe into classified documents found in Biden's files.

The Guardian - UK

And Then What? by Catherine Ashton review – colourful insider account of European diplomacy

The first and presumably last Briton ever to lead European foreign policy gives us a glimpse of a collaborative approach now sadly lost

The Independent UK

Key dates in discovery of classified records tied to Biden

It was early last November when President Joe Biden's personal lawyers first came across Obama-Biden administration documents, including classified material, in an office that Biden had used in Washington after his time as vice president

WEKU

Why we have a debt ceiling, and why this trip to the brink may be different

We have been here before. But this time the House's new Republican majority is largely driven by a faction that says it will hold the debt limit vote as a hostage to win policy changes.

The Guardian - US

‘Joe Biden has been constantly underestimated’: Chris Whipple on his White House book

Fight of His Life author on Kamala Harris’s struggles and growth, Afghanistan, a strong second year … and if Biden will run again

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