Ron Elving

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Week in politics: Jobs grow; Biden to release reserve oil; logs missing on Jan. 6

Saturday, April 02, 2022

The U.S. economy continues to create new jobs at a rapid pace. President Biden taps the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices. Also, the seven-hour gap in White House logs on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Biden is the latest president to go off script on Russia

Saturday, April 02, 2022

Biden was far from the first U.S. president to say what he thought about Russia or its leaders — or to pay a price for it.

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Week in politics: Consequences for China; Zelenskyy asks for help; Court confirmation

Saturday, March 19, 2022

The U.S. continues its work to economically isolate Russia, and most lawmakers are on board. Also: a look ahead to Monday's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

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Zelenskyy's plea to Congress recalls Churchill and others who fought for democracy

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Other addresses to Congress by foreign leaders have paled compared to Winston Churchill welding with his words the alliance that overcame Adolph Hitler, until Volodymyr Zelenskyy's this week.

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Surging gasoline prices bring back memories of past energy wars

Sunday, March 13, 2022

American gas stations displaying high prices this summer and fall will matter more than all the campaign billboards put together in affecting the November midterm elections.

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Week in politics: Biden is feeling the pressure to end the war in Ukraine

Saturday, March 12, 2022

We look at the Biden administration response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the potential economic and political fallout of the U.S. cutting off Russian energy imports.

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Trump's attorney general sends a letter from No Man's Land

Tuesday, March 08, 2022

In One Damn Thing After Another, Bill Barr alternates between castigating and exonerating. He catalogs Trump's offenses yet casts him as the latest victim of dishonest media and "the radical Left."

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It's a cliché to call an election-year Congress do-nothing. The history doesn't match

Sunday, March 06, 2022

There's no law against making laws in an election year. There are special challenges, but the hurdles may loom larger in lore than in reality.

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Week in politics: Biden leads NATO in denouncing Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Saturday, March 05, 2022

President Biden succeeded in unifying NATO's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which may give him more credibility to pursue his domestic agenda.

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Week in politics: Biden sanctions Russia; first Black woman named to Supreme Court

Saturday, February 26, 2022

The Biden administration responds to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the president announces his historic pick to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.

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This won't be the first State of the Union speech given during a crisis

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Even when under maximum pressure, presidents have viewed the speech as a unique opportunity to make their case to the rest of the government, to the nation as a whole and to the wider world as well.

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Week in politics: Biden tries for diplomacy with Russia; Trump faces legal challenges

Saturday, February 19, 2022

President Biden is more certain than ever that Russia will invade Ukraine. Also, former president Donald Trump loses a court case, and three San Francisco school board members are recalled.

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Trump vs. McConnell: Latest round between GOP heavyweights has the highest stakes yet

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

For years, Mitch McConnell converted Donald Trump's heat to power the conservative agenda. Now he needs to again harness that insurgent energy, a challenge when Trump's heat is directed at him.

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Week in politics: Embassy staff in Ukraine evacuate; inflation hits 40-year high

Saturday, February 12, 2022

U.S. officials are warning that Russia may attack Ukraine in the coming days, though they say there is still a chance to prevent an invasion. Also, inflation hits a 40-year high.

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Beijing and Moscow unite in efforts to redefine democracy itself

Sunday, February 06, 2022

In a pointed message to their international critics, the two autocrats declared it was only up to their own people "to decide whether their State is a democratic one."

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Week in politics: Russia and China align; RNC justifies Jan. 6; job growth

Saturday, February 05, 2022

The leaders of Russia and China solidified their ties, and the Republican National Committee suggested the Jan. 6 riots were "legitimate political discourse."

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From Washington to Trump to Biden, new presidents meet unwanted foreign crises

Sunday, January 30, 2022

From George Washington's warning against "foreign entanglements" to Donald Trump's "America First," the pledge to keep the focus close to home has been almost as constant as the oath of office itself.

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Week in politics: U.S. troops on alert at Russia-Ukraine border; Breyer retiring

Saturday, January 29, 2022

Tensions at the Ukraine-Russia border. Plus, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer's resignation and President Biden's pledge to nominate the first-ever Black woman Supreme Court justice.

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Biden's predecessors could have felt his first-year pain

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Yet these early reversals haven't always been hobbling. On the contrary, three of the past four presidents elected — and five of the past eight — have recovered from shaky starts to win re-election.

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Week in politics: Biden hits 1-year anniversary in office

Saturday, January 22, 2022

Did President Joe Biden promise too much when he began his term a year ago? And what role did fellow Democrats, and the media, play in the current sense of disappointment?

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