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Recent Examples of president On Friday federal officials arrested Huerta, the president of Service Employees International Union California, on suspicion of interfering with federal officers. Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025 The policy proposals have proved divisive, and the president's critics and supporters alike have debated their influence on him. Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025 Total everything, and the president’s crypto ventures account for roughly 60% of his net worth today. Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025 While the president, first lady and other MAGA A-listers received a mixed reception, drag performers Tara Hoot, Mari Con Carne, Ricky Rosé and Vagenesis entered to applause and cheers from the crowd. Meredith Kile, People.com, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for president
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  • Hegseth planned to appear before the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee alongside Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, and acting Pentagon Comptroller Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell to discuss the administration's upcoming 2026 budget request.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 10 June 2025
  • Luis Dávila Pernas, the party’s chairman, made the endorsement official in a new campaign ad that Cuomo’s team was set to air on television and digital platforms during Sunday’s Puerto Rican Day Parade in Manhattan.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
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  • Trump has additionally proposed a 12 percent budget cut to the Smithsonian that would leave both the Anacostia Community Museum and the National Museum of the American Latino unfunded, and has appointed himself chairperson of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
    News Desk, Artforum, 10 June 2025
  • What do other experts say? Margherita Fontana, a dentist and the chairperson of the Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences & Endodontics at the University of Michigan, said fluoride is used in the United States in a way that is safe and effective.
    Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
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  • The moderator and the three speakers consisted of: Moderator: Dr. Kilian M Pohl, AI4MH Lead, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Labs and Incubator) and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • The tension at Dorchester’s packed Prince Hall started as the moderator, Yawu Miller of Flipside News, was posing a rather loaded question about immigration to the four candidates taking part in the second forum of the mayoral race, Kraft, Mayor Michelle Wu, Domingos DaRosa, and Robert Cappucci.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 29 May 2025

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