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Biden rings in new year, says there's 'no quit in America'
CNN
In a New Year's Eve message Friday, President Joe Biden said he's "more optimistic about America's future than I've ever been."
"We learned again this year what we've always known: There's no quit in America," Biden said in a pre-recorded video airing on ABC's "Dick Clark's New Year's Rocking Eve with Ryan Seacrest."
"No matter how tough the challenge, how high the obstacles, we always overcome. This virus has been tough, but we've been tougher."
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A Justice Department watchdog has found that former Attorney General Bill Barr was personally involved in the decision to publicize an incident from the 2020 election – nine mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being discarded in a dumpster in Pennsylvania – that flamed the false narrative of widespread voter fraud.
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President Joe Biden is expected to be as forceful as he has ever been in urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire agreement when the two leaders meet privately at the White House Thursday afternoon, sources tell CNN, as US officials believe that a deal may be on the cusp.
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California’s Park Fire grows 7 times larger in hours as Oregon battles country’s biggest active fire
The largest active wildfire in the United States has scorched nearly 270,000 acres in eastern Oregon, as nearly 80 large active wildfires are burning in the US, including a California blaze that exploded in size overnight. Here’s the latest: