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![President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference following the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 21, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0623-joe-biden-400x300.jpg)
Biden Issues Executive Order Seeking to Improve Access to Birth Control
“Contraception is an essential component of reproductive health care,” a press release from the White House said.
![Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on May 24, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0622-aoc-400x300.jpg)
AOC Is Boycotting Modi’s Address Over “Deeply Troubling” Human Rights Record
Far right Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to speak before Congress.
![People rally to show support for the Biden administration's student debt relief plan in front of the Supreme Court on February 28, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0614-student-debt-400x300.jpg)
NAACP: Black Voters Will Be Disillusioned If Biden Fails to Act on Student Debt
Biden risks a legacy of failing on “campaign promises but succeed[ing] in widening the racial wealth gap,” NAACP said.
![President Joe Biden gestures after speaking during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0614-joe-biden-400x300.jpg)
Fox News Calls Biden “Wannabe Dictator” Who Had “Political Rival” Trump Arrested
The claim by the network that Biden played a role in indicting Trump is unfounded and baseless.
![Sen. Bernie Sanders arrives at the U.S. Capitol Building on June 1, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0613-bernie-sanders-400x300.jpg)
Sanders Will Block Health Nominees Until Biden Offers Plan to Lower Drug Prices
As chair of the Senate HELP Committee, Sanders has the unilateral power to block health-related nominees.
![Hundreds of frontline and Appalachian climate activists rally against President Biden's endorsement of the Mountain Valley Pipeline on June 8, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0613-pipeline-3-400x300.jpg)
Activists Risk Arrest — and Smoke Inhalation — to Fight Mountain Valley Pipeline
The backdrop to our recent protest against the Mountain Valley Pipeline was the continent’s latest climate catastrophe.
![President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the Oval Office at the White House on June 5, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0608-biden-400x300.jpg)
Biden Vetoes GOP Bill to Nix Student Debt Relief
Debt advocates say the bill would have forced borrowers to pay retroactive payments on their student debt.
![View of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge as smoke from Canadian wildfires casts a haze over the area on June 7, 2023, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0608-new-york-smoke-400x300.jpg)
Biden Urged to Declare Climate Emergency as Air Pollution Chokes Eastern US
The wildfires are burning amid a week of action against the administration's approvals of fossil fuel projects.
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Biden Hailed Debt Deal as a Win for the US. But Who Actually Won?
David Sirota says Democrats should’ve raised the debt ceiling after midterms, when the party still controlled Congress.
![Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) and Sen. Jeff Merkley leave after a news conference on debt limit at the U.S. Capitol on May 18, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_0602-sanders-merkley-400x300.jpg)
Sanders, 4 Senate Democrats Vote Against Debt Limit Bill With Cuts to SNAP
“The best thing to be said about the current deal on the debt ceiling is that it could have been much worse.”