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Joe Biden releases medical assessment, described as 'healthy, vigorous'

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Joe Biden releases medical assessment, described as 'healthy, vigorous' WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may call Joe Biden “sleepy,” but the former vice president’s physician states that the 77-year-old is in good health and nowhere near slowing down. Dr. Kevin O’Connor of The George Washington University released a three-page medical summary of Biden's health on Tuesday at the request of his patient, in which he described Biden as a “healthy, vigorous, 77-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief.” Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Nashua, N.H., on Dec. 8, 2019. Cheryl Senter / AP There is no new notable change in Biden’s medical history based on previous medical records released during his time as vice president. Biden survived two brain aneurysms in the late 1980s — one did not r...

Trump’s big-deal decision not to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem

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Candidate Donald Trump repeatedly promised to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, where it’s currently located, to Jerusalem, where Israel’s government wants it to be. “We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem,” he promised in a March 2016 speech to AIPAC, the influential pro-Israel lobby. Thursday, June 1, was the deadline for following through. That’s when a law designed to force the president to move the embassy would have gone into force. Yet President Trump betrayed his promise: He signed a waiver that blocks the law from going into force, keeping the US embassy in Tel Aviv. This matters — a lot. Moving the embassy would have signaled that Trump was aligning with the Israeli hard right — and created a major, potentially dangerous rift with the Palestinians. Keeping the embassy in Tel Aviv, by contrast, solidifies a series of Trump’s moves toward the traditional center on the Israel-Palestine conflict — show...