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Biden recalls seeing ‘colored kids’ on segregated bus during his youth in post-presidency speech
Former President Joe Biden, while reflecting on his youth and witnessing segregation firsthand, referred to Black students as «colored kids» in his first major address since exiting the Oval Office.
«We lived in an apartment complex, and she’d [Biden’s mom] drive us only about half a mile to Holy Rosary School in Claymont. But it was so dangerous, she wouldn’t let us walk up,» Biden said Tuesday evening while delivering a speech on the Social Security Administration before a disability advocacy conference in Chicago.
«There were hardly any Black people in Scranton at the time … and I was only going into fourth grade. And I remember seeing kids going by, at the time called colored kids, on a bus going by,» Biden added in his anecdote to explain the importance of civil rights laws to him and why he got involved in politics.
The 46th president was reflecting on how his family moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Wilmington, Delaware, when he was in fourth grade and how he witnessed segregated schools in the nation’s second-smallest state.
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President Joe Biden speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., July 25, 2023. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«They never turned right to go to Claymont High School,» Biden said of Black students not attending a White school. «I asked my mom why? Why? In Delaware, they’re not allowed to go to school in public school with White kids.
«And it sparked my sense of outrage as a kid, just like it does 1744777786.»
The Supreme Court effectively ended segregation in public schools across the country in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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The former president joined the Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) conference in Chicago Tuesday evening, where he received the «beacon of hope award» for his accomplishments as president and addressed the gathering about the Social Security Administration, including attacking the Trump administration for its policies.
«Why are these guys taking aim at Social Security now?» Biden asked, referring to the Trump administration. «Well, they’re following that old line from tech startups. The quote is ‘move fast, break things.’ They’re certainly breaking things. They’re shooting first and aiming later.
«The result is a lot of needless pain and sleepless nights.»
President-elect Donald J. Trump and President Joe Biden attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States inside the Capitol Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times/Pool via Getty Images)
Biden added that the Trump administration is looking to «wreck» Social Security to «rob it.»
«My friend, Gov. O’Malley, knows what they’re really up to. He says, and I love his quote, ‘They want to wreck it so they could rob it.’ They want to wreck it so they could rob it. Why do they want to rob it? In order to deliver huge tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations and keep it going. They want to make permanent the 2017 tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefits the wealthiest Americans and the biggest corporations. That’s going to cost $5 trillion. Where are they going to get $5 trillion to pay for (it) when they continue to run the deficit up?
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«What they always do … by running up the national debt, No. 1. Then by taking the money from someplace else. What are the two big pots of money out there in raw numbers? Social Security and Medicaid. …. Republicans, these guys are willing to hurt the middle class and the working class in order to deliver significant, greater wealth to their already very wealthy. Who in the hell do they think they are?»
The Trump administration has cut about 7,000 Social Security Administration staffers since taking office as part of its mission to cut government fat and bureaucracy and realign agencies with «America First» policies. Democrats have slammed President Donald Trump over the cuts, claiming he will cut Social Security benefits to seniors.
The White House has repeatedly rejected claims that the Trump administration will cut such benefits, vowing to «always protect» Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
The Trump administration’s official Social Security X account responded after the speech that «Biden is lying to Americans,» before providing a detailed list of «facts,» including that Trump has repeatedly pledged to protect benefits and that no field office has been closed since Jan. 20.
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The ACRD conference was billed as the 46th president’s first public speech since leaving the White House. Biden however, has delivered other public remarks since Jan. 20, Fox Digital found, such as speaking at the National High School Model United Nations in March, but those events received little media coverage.
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Estados Unidos ofrece una recompensa millonaria por siete norcoreanos acusados de financiar al régimen de Kim Jong-un
El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos ofreció este jueves una recompensa de hasta quince millones de dólares por información que lleve al arresto o condena del norcoreano Sim Hyon-sop y de seis presuntos colaboradores, vinculados a actividades ilícitas para obtener divisas destinadas al régimen de Kim Jong-un, entre las cuales se destacan operaciones de contrabando y la compraventa ilegal de tabaco, con el objetivo de acceder a dólares estadounidenses y financiar entidades sancionadas por la ONU y Washington.
La recompensa se distribuye en diferentes montos: hasta siete millones de dólares por Sim Hyon-sop, hasta tres millones respectivamente por Myong Chol-Min y Kim Se-Un, y hasta 500.000 dólares por Ri Won-Ho, Kim Yong-Bok, Kim Chol-Min (alias “Jack”) y Ri Tong-Min (alias “Elvis”). El Departamento de Estado sostiene que los siete norcoreanos organizaban la compraventa internacional de tabaco de origen norcoreano, facilitando el ingreso de divisas al país asiático en violación de las sanciones vigentes.
El comunicado estadounidense detalla además que a Sim, junto a varios de sus colaboradores, se les atribuyen operaciones ilícitas relacionadas con el sector de las tecnologías de la información (TI). Según la información oficial, el régimen de Pyongyang envía a miles de trabajadores de TI al extranjero, en particular a Rusia y China, para gestionar proyectos y trabajos fraudulentos. Estas actividades incluyen operaciones de ciberdelincuencia, diseñadas para generar ingresos que contribuyen a la financiación de los programas de armas de destrucción masiva del régimen norcoreano.
En paralelo, el Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos anunció sanciones contra la compañía Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company, señalando su rol como entidad reclutadora y coordinadora de trabajadores norcoreanos especializados en TI en el exterior, entre ellos envíos recientes a Vietnam. Las sanciones también afectan a tres ciudadanos norcoreanos implicados en planes ilegales destinados a la obtención de fondos para el régimen.
Según la administración estadounidense, estas redes operadas desde el extranjero otorgan a Corea del Norte acceso a sistemas tecnológicos avanzados, infraestructura financiera ilícita y facilitadores internacionales que apoyan la recaudación de fondos para organizaciones sancionadas, como el Departamento de Industria de Municiones y el Ministerio de Energía Atómica e Industria. Dichas instituciones cumplen un papel central en el desarrollo del programa nuclear y de misiles, foco de condena internacional.
El Departamento de Estado enfatizó que las medidas tomadas reflejan la determinación de la Administración de Donald Trump para enfrentar las amenazas de Corea del Norte y proteger tanto los intereses de las empresas estadounidenses como la estabilidad del sistema financiero y la seguridad de los ciudadanos.
Por otra parte, la situación de seguridad regional en Asia ha mostrado nuevas señales de tensión tras declaraciones del dictador norcoreano Kim Jong-un para arengar a su ejército a prepararse “para una guerra real”, durante un concurso de disparo de unidades de artillería efectuado el miércoles y difundido este jueves por los canales estatales de comunicación. Según la Agencia Central de Noticias de Corea (KCNA), Kim instó a las tropas a estar listas para el combate “en cualquier momento” y a desarrollar la capacidad de “destruir al enemigo en cada batalla”.
Las imágenes, difundidas por la Televisión Central de Corea, muestran a Kim observando las maniobras con binoculares desde un puesto de mando, acompañado de altos mandos militares. La localización del ejercicio no fue divulgada.
Estos llamados a la preparación militar se producen después del reporte de agencias de inteligencia surcoreanas y occidentales sobre el envío de más de 10.000 soldados norcoreanos a la región rusa de Kursk, junto a material bélico como proyectiles de artillería, misiles y sistemas de cohetes de largo alcance, en apoyo a la ofensiva rusa en Ucrania que lleva ya más de tres años desde su inicio. En esos enfrentamientos, murieron aproximadamente 600 soldados norcoreanos y miles resultaron heridos, según fuentes oficiales surcoreanas.
Las relaciones entre Corea del Norte y Rusia han cobrado renovado impulso a partir de la firma de un acuerdo militar el año pasado, que contempla una cláusula de defensa mutua. El pacto fue sellado durante la visita del presidente ruso Vladimir Putin a Pyongyang. Kim Jong-un reiteró su respaldo total a Rusia en su conflicto con Ucrania durante una reunión con el canciller ruso, Sergei Lavrov, el pasado 13 de julio en la ciudad de Wonsan, en el este del país.
Ambos gobiernos permanecen bajo fuertes sanciones internacionales y su cooperación militar suscita preocupación en la comunidad internacional por el potencial impacto en la seguridad regional y global.
(Con información de AFP y EFE)
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Hillary Clinton sounded alarm on Biden’s political viability ‘by 2024,’ Klain told House investigators
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Ex-President Joe Biden’s former chief of staff Ron Klain told House investigators that Hillary Clinton approached him with concerns about the octogenarian leader’s political viability «by 2024,» Fox News Digital has learned.
Klain spoke with staff on the House Oversight Committee for over five hours on Thursday, as Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., continues to probe whether top Biden aides concealed signs of mental decline in the ex-president.
A source familiar with his voluntary interview told Fox News Digital that Klain believed Biden was mentally sharp enough to serve as president, and was not too old to run.
But the ex-secretary of state and former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan both «approached Ron Klain stating they believed Joe Biden was not politically viable» months before he dropped his re-election bid in July 2024, the source said.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared concerns about ex-President Biden’s political viability by 2024, a source said. (Getty Images)
Sullivan told Klain that Biden «was less effective in 2024 compared to 2022,» the source said.
It’s not immediately clear if Biden’s mental acuity was the reasoning for their doubts, nor if they made the case to Klain together or separately.
But it’s a significant indictment coming from top national Democrats of Biden in general, long before concerns about his fitness for office within the party were made public knowledge.
Sullivan had been a top aide to both Biden and Clinton, having served as the latter’s senior policy advisor during her 2016 campaign.
Klain, who served as White House chief of staff for the first half of Biden’s term, conceded that the then-president was less energetic and more forgetful, though he defended his «acuity to govern,» the source said.
«Mr. Klain stated that President Biden often confused names and proper nouns, and it got worse over time,» the source said.
Fox News Digital was told that Klain also said there was no reason to doubt President Donald Trump’s own mental fitness.
Ron Klain, former White House chief of staff, allegedly made the revelation to House investigators (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Klain said nothing to reporters when going in or out of the committee room Thursday.
He’s the sixth former Biden administration aide to appear for Comer’s probe.
And despite the interview being largely staff-led, Comer did make an appearance for the early half of the sit-down, and Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., were both briefly there as well.
Both Biggs and Khanna called Klain «credible» from what they saw inside the room.
«I think he is telling what he knows accurately,» Biggs told Fox News Digital.
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On the other side of the aisle, Khanna told reporters, «He answered every single question. He was fully cooperative.»
Three other former Biden White House aides who previously appeared – Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, and ex-White House doctor Kevin O’Connor – all appeared under subpoena and pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions.
Longtime Biden aide Ashley Williams and ex-staff secretary Neera Tanden, like Klain, came for voluntary transcribed interviews.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer is leading the probe into Biden. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Jeff Zients, who served as Biden’s chief of staff for the final two years, was also asked to sit for a transcribed interview, a committee aide previously told Fox News Digital.
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A source familiar with the Biden team’s thinking previously called Republicans’ probe «dangerous» and «an attempt to smear and embarrass.»
«And their hope is for just one tiny inconsistency between witnesses to appear so that Trump’s DOJ prosecute his political opponents and continue his campaign of revenge,» that source said.
When reached for comment, Adrienne Watson, a representative for Sullivan, told Fox News Digital, «Jake did not have a conversation with Ron about Joe Biden running for president before the debate.»
Fox News Digital also reached out to Klain’s attorney as well as a contact for comment for Clinton but did not hear back by press time.
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