As President Joe Biden's State of the Union address approaches, American unity and strength are being sharply tested on multiple fronts.
Russian shelling pounded civilian targets in Ukraine's second-largest city again Tuesday. Derick Waller reports from outside the United Nations in New York.
After two years of a pandemic that has killed more than 920,000 in the U.S., majorities put masks back on and avoided travel and crowds in January in the sweep of the omicron variant. Now, finally, a sustained drop in infections appears to be underway. With Biden so hemmed in by political realities, it's hard to imagine a single speech altering the public's perception of his course, said Julia Helm, 52, a county auditor from the burgeoning suburbs west of Des Moines and a Republican.
Consumer prices over the past 12 months jumped 7.5%, the highest since Carter's successor, Ronald Reagan, as many pay raises were swallowed up and dreams of home ownership or even a used car became prohibitively expensive. Gas prices climbed over the past month because of Russia's mounting moves on Ukraine, but that came after a year of steep increases.
"Inaugural addresses sometimes do have an impact because they are big picture, far horizon speeches," said political scientist Cal Jillson of Southern Methodist University."State of the Unions rarely do because they tend to be listy rather than thematic."
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