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The President, just returning from a several-days overseas trip to the Middle East , has tested positive for COVID-19. The White House has confirmed that the president, vaxxed and twice boosted, has "very mild symptoms" and is expected to continue working during isolation. The president has taken the anti-viral drug Paxlovid  to guard against serious COVID illness. The president's symptoms have included runny nose and dry cough. READ : Remembering  President Trump's COVID illness. The White House has decided to get out front of the news, being transparent in the moment. The president's wife, First Lady Jill Biden, speaking to reporters in Detroit after a visit to a  Horizons National summer learning program held at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT said of her husband's condition, "He's fine." The president, age 79, co-signed his wife's comments shortly thereafter tweeting in Joe Biden fashion, "I'm fine, folks." Presiden...

In the wake of yet another mass shooting involving a youth, o n Wednesday, May 18th, at   11:00  First Lady Jill Biden will join U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, Ambassador Susan E. Rice, Mental Health Advocate Selena Gomez, and a group of young leaders for a White House Conversation on Youth Mental Health.  This conversation is in connection with the Mental Health Youth Action Forum led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and MTV Entertainment (MTVE) in support of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Unity Agenda’s emphasis on tackling the nation’s mental health crisis. Eighteen year-old Brenson Gendron, who had scoped out the TOPS grocery store two months before he returned to murder ten individuals in a predominantly African-American community of Buffalo, New York, had been mentally evaluated after threatening to shoot-up a high school earlier this year. Still, there has been no signif...

  First Lady Dr. Jill Biden relents on holidays past and remarks on the first Biden White House Christmas.  Each first lady creates a theme for their Christmas holiday.  (One of the many Christmas themes during First Lady Michelle Obama's tenure was Shine, Give, Share ). The Biden holiday theme is Gifts From The Heart .   In the above video you can see the different gift-themed decorations for various White House rooms, all exceptionally luminated for the season with a special nod to the military and Gold-Star families, the arts, nature, friendship and more.  First Lady Biden made remarks during the revealing of the Biden White House Christmas, which are available below. "We all have our own traditions that make the holidays special—whether it’s decorating the tree together or watching your favorite Christmas movie; the annual family photo by the fireplace; or fishing out that faded, butter-stained recipe that takes you right back to baking with your grandm...