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6/25/2022 2:37:55 PM
Democratic leaders across the nation vowed Friday to help women who travel to seek abortions and to shield patients and medical professionals from being pursued by authorities in states where the procedure becomes outlawed after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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6/5/2022 3:52:33 PM
When President Donald Trump was impeached in late 2019 after pressuring Ukraine's leader for ``a favor,'' all while withholding $400 million in military aid to help confront Russian-backed separatists, even the staunchest defense hawks in the Republican Party stood virtually united by Trump's side.
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5/27/2022 3:51:26 PM
Democrats' first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, failed in the Senate as Republicans blocked a domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on difficult questions surrounding hate crimes and gun safety.
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5/9/2022 10:20:30 AM
Sweden's ruling Social Democrats said Monday the party would announce on May 15 its position on whether the country should apply for NATO membership.
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1/13/2022 10:48:12 PM
As President Joe Biden rode to the Capitol to prod Democrats on stalled voting and elections legislation, Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema dashed their hopes of muscling the party's major priority past a Republican blockade.
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12/19/2021 6:22:55 PM
US Senator Joe Manchin dealt what seemed to be a fatal blow Sunday to President Joe Biden's massive social spending bill, saying he could not support the legislation's passage through the divided chamber.
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12/11/2021 9:01:48 PM
Party delegates from Germany's center-left Social Democrats, the senior partner in the country's new coalition government, elected three top officials on Saturday just days after its candidate, Olaf Scholz, became Germany's ninth post-World War II chancellor.
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12/5/2021 7:01:10 PM
Germany's pro-business Free Democrats on Sunday approved a deal to form a new government with two center-left parties, moving Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz a step closer to taking office as the country's new leader this week.
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12/4/2021 1:12:02 PM
The center-left party of German Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz is meeting Saturday to decide whether to approve a deal to form a new government with environmentalist and pro-business parties _ the first of three such decisions needed for Scholz to take office next week.
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11/24/2021 7:11:59 PM
The three parties negotiating to form Germany's next government will finalize and present their coalition agreement Wednesday, two of the prospective partners said. The deal paves the way for center-left leader Olaf Scholz to replace longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel in the coming weeks.
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11/6/2021 7:18:55 PM
President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed Congress' passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a ``monumental step forward for the nation`` after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to seal the deal.
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10/28/2021 11:06:55 PM
Top executives of ExxonMobil and other oil giants denied spreading disinformation about climate change as they sparred Thursday with congressional Democrats over allegations that the industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global warming.
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10/28/2021 4:12:39 PM
US President Joe Biden announced Thursday a revised $1.75 trillion social spending plan that he is confident Democrats will support, ending weeks of wrangling and delivering a political victory hours before he departs for twin summits in Europe.
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10/24/2021 9:21:15 PM
Deadline driven, President Joe Biden brought two pivotal senators to his Delaware home Sunday for talks aimed at resolving the disputes that have stymied the Democrats' wide-ranging social safety net and environmental measure at the core of his domestic agenda.
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10/19/2021 10:10:37 PM
President Joe Biden held intensive talks with competing factions of his Democratic party Tuesday in an attempt to save his agenda in Congress before time runs out.
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10/15/2021 6:03:53 PM
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Friday took a step toward succeeding Angela Merkel as chancellor, as his Social Democrats, the Greens and liberal FDP announced a preliminary deal to form a new government.
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10/6/2021 1:37:41 PM
Germany's environmentalist Greens said Wednesday they want to hold negotiations on a new governing coalition under the leadership of outgoing Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democrats, who narrowly won the country's election.
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10/2/2021 6:10:19 PM
President Joe Biden on Saturday acknowledged frustrations as Democrats strain to rescue a scaled-back version of his $3.5 trillion government-overhaul plan and salvage a related public works bill after frantic negotiations failed to produce a deal.
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10/2/2021 12:43:17 PM
President Biden has pledged at the Capitol to ‘get it done as Democrats strained to rescue a scaled-back version of his $3.5 trillion government-overhaul plan and salvage a related public works bill
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9/26/2021 9:48:45 PM
Germany s center-left Social Democrats were locked in a very close race Sunday with outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel s center-right bloc, which was heading toward its worst-ever result in the country s parliamentary election, projections showed.
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