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The White House announced Thursday that President Joe Biden will meet with BTS next week, a K-Pop boy band group from South Korea. The meeting will take place on Tuesday as part of the White House events for Asian-American heritage month. The president will discuss “Asian inclusion and representation” according to the White House release and also “address anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination” Biden will also discuss with the BTS stars the importance of using their colossal fame to communicate with the world. “President Biden and BTS will also discuss the importance of diversity and inclusion and BTS’ platform as youth ambassadors who spread a message of hope and positivity across the world,” the White House release read. In 2021, BTS issued a statement condemning Asian discrimination. #StopAsianHate #StopAAPIHate pic.twitter.com/mOmttkOpOt — 방탄소년단 (@BTS_twt) March 30, 2021 “We send our deepest condolences to those who have lost their loved ones,” … [Read more...] about Joe Biden Plans White House Visit with BTS K-Pop Boy Band to Discuss ‘Anti-Asian’ Hate

WASHINGTON (AP) — BTS, the Grammy-nominated South Korean boy band, will join President Joe Biden next week to talk about “Asian inclusion and representation” and to address hate crimes and discrimination against Asians, the White House announced Thursday. The musical group's White House visit next Tuesday follows Biden's trip last week to South Korea, a U.S. ally. Biden has been outspoken about being committed to combating a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. Last year, the Democratic president signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act into law. Biden and BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, also will discuss diversity and the K-pop group's platform as youth ambassadors. The band received its first Grammy nomination last year after releasing the song “Dynamite” as a gift to fans isolated by the coronavirus pandemic. … [Read more...] about K-pop band BTS and Biden to meet to discuss Asian inclusion

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 4 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to console families and honor victims of Tuesday’s mass school shooting in which 19 children and two teachers were killed. The White House said the Bidens would “grieve with the community that lost 21 lives in the horrific” shooting at Robb Elementary School. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president would meet with the community and religious leaders and victims' families. Jean-Pierre, the parent of an elementary school student, delivered an impassioned plea at the White House for lawmakers to come together to address gun violence. “These were elementary school kids, they should be losing their first teeth not losing their lives,” she said. Asked about the propriety of the National Rifle Association going ahead with its planned conference in Houston this … [Read more...] about Biden to console families in Uvalde, press for action

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 2 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A decade ago, Pat McCrory was king in North Carolina's Republican Party. The former Charlotte mayor became the first GOP governor in two decades when he won in 2012 by 11 percentage points. Today, the moderate has been tossed aside in state GOP politics, trounced by 34 percentage points in last week’s Senate primary by Rep. Ted Budd, who was a little-known congressman outside his district until former President Donald Trump endorsed him last June. The Trump shift within the Republican Party is making casualties nationally out of fiscal conservatives like McCrory, who says he supported many Trump policies but did not care for his style — a nuanced view that apparently did not help him in a state the former president won twice. Now McCrory’s long electoral career appears over at age 65. “I’ve played the game. I’ve been played by the game. I’ve won the game. But I’ve … [Read more...] about Decade since NC governor win, McCrory trounced in Senate bid

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 HOUSTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” -- and deflect any blame for -- the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Former President Donald Trump and other leading Republicans are scheduled to address the three-day firearms industry marketing event, which is expected to draw protesters fed up with gun violence. Some scheduled speakers and performers have backed out, including two Texas lawmakers and “American Pie” singer Don McLean, who said “it would be disrespectful” to go ahead with his act in the aftermath of the country’s latest mass shooting. While President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have renewed calls for stricter gun laws, NRA board member Phil … [Read more...] about NRA stages marketing event as Texas mourns school shooting

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — With May being Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, WJZ sat down with a local leader in the Korean community, who opened up about the trauma she experienced coming to the United States. For years, Sue Song suffered in silence. When she was 21 years old, she left Korea and immigrated to the U.S. for her husband. They were poor, Song did not speak English and she did not know of any Asian people around her. READ MORE: Jury Acquits Man Of Murder Of Baltimore Anti-Violence Advocate Dante Barksdale “I was very depressed,” Song told WJZ. “I was so lonely. So many times, I had to cry.” That complete loss of identity is traumatic for immigrants, but Song kept her pain to herself. ”In my culture, we want to be peaceful,” she said. “We want to be able to minimize any kind of conflict. We don’t want to say too much.” She recalled how her mother sent a gift from Korea, a traditional side dish called kimchi. It was a remedy for her severe homesickness. But … [Read more...] about Howard County Woman Opens Up About Her Experience As An Immigrant

U.S. natural gas prices have skyrocketed nearly 150% this year while inventory levels have shrunk, signaling more consumer pain ahead of the summer season. The Henry Hub natural gas spot price, an indicator of nationwide prices, stormed past $9.30 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) Thursday, up from its early January price of $3.74 per MMBtu and the highest level since 2008, according to government data . U.S. natural gas inventories have been drained in recent months, declining 17.6% year-over-year and down 15.3% relative to their 2017-2021 average, additional data released Thursday showed . “There’s almost no ceiling for natural gas,” Kent Bayazitoglu, an energy analyst at the firm Baker & O’Brien, told The Wall Street Journal. “You can reduce your driving a lot easier than you can reduce your natural-gas consumption.” “It’s like a roller coaster,” Bayazitoglu added. “You don’t get nervous going down, but going up.” (RELATED: CRUDE FLIP-FLOP: Biden’s … [Read more...] about ‘Like A Roller Coaster’: Natural Gas Prices Surge, Inventories Drained Following Biden’s EU Deal

close Video 'Long and frustrating' days for parents and Uvalde community Fox News correspondent Jeff Paul has the latest on the investigation into the Texas school shooting at Robb Elementary. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! The White House announced Thursday that President Biden will visit Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday. Biden's visit will take place on May 29, almost one week after alleged gunman Salvador Ramos killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. "On Sunday, May 29, the President and the First Lady will travel to Uvalde, Texas to grieve with the community that lost twenty-one lives in the horrific elementary school shooting," the White House said in a statement. TEXAS SCHOOL SHOOTING: LIVE UPDATES U.S. President Joe Biden reacts as he makes a statement about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas shortly after Biden returned to Washington from his trip to South Korea and … [Read more...] about Biden to visit Uvalde to ‘grieve’ and demand ‘action’ on guns, White House says

President Joe Biden is paying federal contractors upwards of $3 million every day to not construct border wall along the United States-Mexico border, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) says. During an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily , Ernst detailed her latest legislation titled the BUILD IT Act which would turn over the unused border wall materials, already paid for by American taxpayers, to states that could then continue constructing the barrier at the border. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP) In January 2021, Biden halted all construction of border wall. LISTEN: Breitbart · Sen. Joni Ersnt (R-IA) – May 25, 2022 “[My legislation] turns over those unused materials, that were purchased to construct the southern border barrier, to any state … [Read more...] about Exclusive — Joni Ernst: Biden Paying Contractors $3M Every Day to Not Build Border Wall

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday the administration “won’t prejudge the results” when pressed on the White House’s view of the police’s response in the Texas school shooting. Authorities say Salvador Rolando Ramos, an 18-year-old in Ulvade, Texas, shot his grandmother Tuesday before traveling to Robb Elementary School, where he was able to enter the building and kill 19 children and two teachers. In the hours and days following the massacre, police have come under scrutiny for inconsistencies in their reporting of what happened on the ground as well as their decision-making while the attack unfolded. The questions have even prompted a state authorities investigation into the Uvalde Police Department’s response, according to USA Today. On Thursday, Jean-Pierre was pressed about whether President Joe Biden backs an investigation into the police’s response. She declined to take a side, simply noting that it’s good to “try to find any lessons we can … [Read more...] about Biden ‘Won’t Prejudge’ Police Response To Texas School Massacre, Jean-Pierre Says