WATERVILLE — Former Vice President Joe Biden gave assurances Sunday that the country’s current divisiveness brought on by a presidential election that “churned up some of the ugliest realities” of society will be temporary. Biden told graduating seniors at Colby College to resist the impulse to throw up their hands after an election that played […]
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Joe Biden to deliver Colby College commencement address
WATERVILLE — Former Vice President Joe Biden is planning to deliver Colby College’s commencement address on Sunday, May 21. The will begin at 10 a.m. on the lawn of Miller Library, weather permitting. It is open to the public. In case of rain, tickets will be required for admission to the gymnasium in the Harold […]
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Joe Biden, Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign in Scranton
SCRANTON, Pa. — Vice President Joe Biden assailed Donald Trump’s ability to lead America at home and abroad on Monday, branding him as indifferent to the needs of Americans in his first campaign appearance with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Biden, who decided not to make a third presidential bid last year, said in his native […]
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Video: Joe Biden will not run for president
Here is a transcript of Vice President Joseph Biden’s remarks: BIDEN: Please, please, sit down. Mr. President, thank you for lending me the Rose Garden for a minute. OBAMA: It’s a pretty nice place. BIDEN: As the family and I have worked through the — the grieving process, I’ve said all along what I’ve said […]
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Biden-Warren matchup not likely
As Vice President Joe Biden reportedly mulls a bid for the U.S. presidency, his champions portray him as a credible alternative to Democratic Party front-runner Hillary Clinton, who faces accusations that she is beholden to the financial industry. But a Biden campaign risks confronting the scorn of one of the party’s most influential progressives, Sen. […]
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Secret Service: Shots fired outside Bidens’ Delaware home
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday night, the U.S. Secret Service said Sunday. The vice president and his wife were not at home at the time of the shooting, authorities said. The Wilmington home is several hundred yards from […]
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Biden promises U.S. will chase terrorists to the ‘gates of hell’
KITTERY — Vice President Joe Biden addressed a crowd of more than 1,000 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery on Wednesday morning, throwing political star power behind a slate of Democratic candidates in both Maine and New Hampshire. Biden was accompanied on the stage by Maine gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud and 1st District U.S. Rep. Chellie […]
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Pingree: Biden to tour Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
KITTERY — Vice President Joe Biden is paying a visit to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard this week. Joining him on Wednesday will be U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Rep. Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire, along with Reps. Chellie Pingree and Mike Michaud of Maine. The shipyard announced the visit on Sunday. Pingree said Sunday that […]
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Froma Harrop: About that Biden ‘gaffe’ in Tokyo
We know that about 20,000 pseudo-, semi- and real journalists “cover” Washington. We know that mid-December is slow-time in the nation’s capital as the public turns its attention to the holidays. But big news or no, the scriveners tending political websites must still, as they say, “feed the beast” and take it out for a […]