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* **Joe Biden’s Late Goodbye**. "The Democratic National Convention’s first night had a delicate mission: to honor the sitting president before quickly switching gears to celebrate Kamala Harris." ([The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/joe-biden-convention-speech/679519/))
* **In 2016, Obama Passed a Baton. Tonight, He’ll Aim to Resurrect a Movement**. "In his speech at the Democratic National Convention, the former president will have the tricky task of helping to reassemble the kind of coalition that powered his own rise." ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/us/politics/obama-dnc-harris.html))

2/ **House Republicans released their initial impeachment inquiry report on Biden, accusing him – without evidence – of "impeachable conduct" related to his family's "egregious" business dealings**. The report, however, offered no proof that Biden participated in any criminal wrongdoing. The White House dismissed the impeachment inquiry as a “failed stunt” that "will only be remembered for how it became an embarrassment" because it "only managed to turn up evidence that refuted their false and baseless conspiracy theories." The House doesn’t return until September, when it’s possible that Republicans could force a vote on impeachment. While Republican don’t have the votes to impeach Biden, but if the effort were successful in the House, it would fail in the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats. ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/us/politics/republican-impeachment-report-biden.html) / [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/19/biden-impeachment-congress-gop-00174553) / [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-led-house-committees-release-lengthy-report-alleging-president-bid-rcna166954) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/politics/biden-impeachment-report-released/) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/19/republican-impeachment-probe-ends-way-it-began-with-nothing/) / [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2024/08/19/biden-impeachment-report-house-gop-republicans) / [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-joe-biden-impeachment-0659ac1d6bca42332647fddd0f9150fb))
2/ **House Republicans released their initial impeachment inquiry report on Biden, accusing him – without evidence – of "impeachable conduct" related to his family's "egregious" business dealings**. The report, however, offered no proof that Biden participated in any criminal wrongdoing. The White House dismissed the impeachment inquiry as a “failed stunt” that "will only be remembered for how it became an embarrassment" because it "only managed to turn up evidence that refuted their false and baseless conspiracy theories." The House doesn’t return until September, when it’s possible that Republicans could force a vote on impeachment. While Republicans don’t have the votes to impeach Biden, even if the effort were successful in the House, it would fail in the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats. ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/us/politics/republican-impeachment-report-biden.html) / [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/19/biden-impeachment-congress-gop-00174553) / [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-led-house-committees-release-lengthy-report-alleging-president-bid-rcna166954) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/politics/biden-impeachment-report-released/) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/19/republican-impeachment-probe-ends-way-it-began-with-nothing/) / [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2024/08/19/biden-impeachment-report-house-gop-republicans) / [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-joe-biden-impeachment-0659ac1d6bca42332647fddd0f9150fb))

3/ **In March, Biden approved a highly classified nuclear strategic plan to shift America’s deterrent strategy to China's expansion of its nuclear arsenal**. The “Nuclear Employment Guidance,” which was never publicly announced, also orders the U.S. to prepare for possible coordinated nuclear challenges from China, Russia, and North Korea. Reportedly weighing on the Pentagon is “the significant increase in the size and diversity” of China’s nuclear arsenal, according to nuclear strategist Vipin Narang, who served in the Defense Department until this month. ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/us/politics/biden-nuclear-china-russia.html) / [Semafor](https://www.semafor.com/article/08/20/2024/biden-refocused-us-nuclear-strategy-on-china-threat-report) / [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-approved-secret-nuclear-strategy-focusing-chinese-threat-new-york-times-2024-08-20/))

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