Colin Powell was a longtime Republican. But he often criticized the party's race problem
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The retired Army general stood out in a party that he'd eventually dismiss, but he represented a common archetype of a Black man from his generation.
That's how Colin Powell, who died on Monday, described himself in his 1995 autobiography "My American Journey."
Over his 84 years, the South Bronx-raised son of Jamaican immigrants bucked that narrative, securing a litany of firsts: the country's first Black national security adviser, first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and first Black secretary of state.
President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
In the days and weeks leading up Hunter Biden’s trial on felony gun charges, President Joe Biden made little attempt to distance himself from his son. Instead, Hunter Biden was seen at the White House and in Delaware at his father’s side amid what the president’s allies acknowledge is a difficult moment for both men.