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Saudi is swinging again, but for how long?

Fluctuating Chinese demand has contributed to this year’s volatility in international oil prices. But the latest evolution on the supply side will have immediate geopolitical and financial implications that go well beyond the oil market. Specifically, Saudi Arabia has returned as the most important swing producer and thus the most…

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At White House, Uvalde’s Matthew McConaughey makes impassioned plea on guns

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4 things to watch for in the prime-time Jan. 6 hearing

The Watergate-style hearing will be the first of several meticulously crafted events.

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Biden on Kimmel's show is no joke as president’s poll numbers plummet

BOSTON — President Joe Biden’s approval rating continues to sink — dropping to 39% — so he’s pivoting to the comedy circuit in a calculated attempt to woo dissatisfied young voters, a political wonk says.

Boston Herald

Janet Yellen warns inflation is likely to stay high

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told US lawmakers peppering her Tuesday with questions about the surge in the cost of living that inflation is likely to stay high and that she ought not to have termed big price increases as “transitory” last year.

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Kamala Harris emerges as Biden team’s leading voice in battle over abortion rights

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as the Biden administration’s leading voice in the battle over abortion rights, as the president has yet to forcefully weigh in on an issue that may offer Democrats a lifeline in November’s midterm elections.

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At White House, Uvalde’s Matthew McConaughey makes impassioned plea on guns

WASHINGTON – In the spotlight of the White House briefing room, movie star Matthew McConaughey described in graphic detail the mutilation inflicted on 19 children and two teachers gunned down in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.

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Past Cannabis Use Could Affect White House Internship Eligibility: Weed And The Return To Work, It's A New World

The Biden administration clarified that people applying as White House interns will be required to fill out a standard form to disclose prior drug use including marijuana, reported Marijuana Moment.

Benzinga

Burn Pit Bill Creates Massive, Debt-Fueled Backdoor Expansion of the V.A. Health Care System

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans wouldn't have to show any link between their service and a long list of medical conditions to obtain government-funded healthcare.

Reason

Monthly tracker: Article III federal judicial nominations by president by days in office since 2001

Through June 1, 2022, there were 890 authorized federal judicial posts and 77 vacancies. Seventy-five of those were for Article III judgeships. This report is limited to Article III courts, where appointees are confirmed to lifetime terms.

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Mexico foreign minister accuses U.S. of inconsistency in Americas Summit invitations

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard on Tuesday accused the United States of double standards by refusing to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas, while engaging with non-democratic governments in Southeast Asia.

Reuters

Biden just did a good climate thing

The president just made a move toward increasing access to solar power. Here's why it matters.

Mic

US solar companies weigh challenge to Biden pause on tariffs

U.S. solar manufacturers are considering legal challenges after President Joe Biden declared a two-year pause on tariffs for solar imports from Southeast Asia

The Independent UK

Matthew McConaughey’s emotional White House briefing speech in full

Actor Matthew McConaughey delivered an emotional address at the White House where he shared details about the schoolaged victims of the Uvalde shooting massacre

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Matthew McConaughey shows dead schoolgirl's shoes at White House in emotive plea for gun control after Uvalde shooting

The actor's voice trembled as he delivered a highly charged speech detailing the shocking extent of injuries inflicted on child victims of the latest school shooting

The Independent UK

A migrant caravan is headed towards the US border. Could it undermine Biden’s Summit of the Americas?

Massive group of migrants undermine a summit already on shaky ground

The Independent UK

McConaughey calls for gun control action at White House

Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey offered an emotional call on Congress to “reach a higher ground” and pass gun control legislation

WEKU

Senate gun law negotiators working toward a deal by the end of the week

Negotiations have narrowed proposals to address school safety, standards for safe gun storage, federal support for mental health programs and incentives for states to create red flag laws.

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Matthew McConaughey, a Uvalde native, delivers an impassioned plea at the White House

WASHINGTON — The actor Matthew McConaughey delivered an impassioned speech in the White House briefing room Tuesday, calling for stricter gun laws in the wake of the deadly school shooting last month in his hometown in Texas.

Reason

Joe Biden's Solar Panel Tariffs Are a National Security Threat, Says Joe Biden

Biden should stop layering new, contradictory orders into the market and simply get government out of the way.

Reuters

Brazil's Bolsonaro casts doubt on Biden's 2020 election win ahead of meeting him

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday cast doubt on the 2020 election victory of U.S. President Joe Biden, just two days before they are due to meet for the first time during the Summit of the Americas.

Roll Call

House Armed Services panel backs Biden's Navy shipbuilding plan - Roll Call

The House Armed Services Committee will hew closely to President Biden's budget request in authorizing Navy shipbuilding next year.

The Independent UK

Senate votes to advance landmark burn pits bill, bringing sick veterans a step closer to healthcare access

The bill was named after the late Sgt First Class Heath Robinson who died in May 2020 from a rare cancer

The Guardian - US

Janet Yellen tells Congress US faces ‘unacceptable levels of inflation’

Treasury secretary admits she regrets describing inflation as ‘transitory’ and says it is ‘top economic problem at this point’

The Independent UK

30 cases in a month: Abortion, guns top justices' to-do list

Curbing abortion rights and expanding the right to be armed in public have long been prizes of the conservative legal movement that the Supreme Court seems poised to award within the next month

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