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President Joe Biden warned on January 5 that Donald Trump’s efforts to retake the White House in 2024 pose a grave threat to the country, the day before the third anniversary of the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol by then-President Trump’s supporters aiming to keep him in power. Speaking near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where George Washington and the Continental Army spent a bleak winter nearly 250 years ago, President Biden said that January 6, 2021, marked a moment where “we nearly lost America — lost it all.” He said the presidential race — a likely rematch with Trump,...

President Joe Biden is aiming to use a visit to the battleground state of Wisconsin on December 20 to spotlight a surge in federal government support for Black-owned small businesses during his White House tenure, and to highlight his administration’s efforts to ramp up investment in distressed communities. The Small Business Administration in the last fiscal year backed 4,700 loans valued at $1.5 billion to Black-owned businesses. Under President Biden, the SBA says it has more than doubled the number and total dollar amount of loans to Black-owned small businesses. Since 2020, the share of the SBA’s loans going...

Ten Republicans who posed as fake electors for ex-president Donald Trump in Wisconsin, and filed paperwork falsely saying he had won the battleground state, have settled a civil lawsuit. They admitted their actions were part of an effort to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory, attorneys who filed the case announced on December 6. Under the agreement, the fake electors acknowledged that Biden won the state, withdrew their filings, and agreed not to serve as presidential electors in 2024 or any other election where Trump is on the ballot. The 10 fake electors agreed to send a statement to the...