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First German Shepherd Champ Biden with Jill Biden. Photograph by Adam Schultz/White House
Major and Champ Biden got to Washington yesterday and moved into the White House, following four pet-free years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Champ trots into the White House on January 24, 2021. Photograph by Adam Schultz/White House
The First Family has had Champ, 12, since late 2008, just before Joe Biden became VP. His name came from Biden granddaughters Finnegan and Maisy. Major, a rescue, joined the family in 2018. The President has an affinity for German Shepherds because he grew up with the breed.
Major Biden is a rescue. Photograph by Adam Schultz/White House
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U.S. Army Photo by Maj. Charlie Dietz, Task Force-Iraq Public Affairs
The top story on New Year’s Day 2020 centered on a shocking December 31 attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad, inside Iraq’s Green Zone. Protestors had breached the fortified embassy compound, presumably while some Iraqi security personnel looked the other way, and set fires around the property retribution for US airstrikes on members of an Iranian militia. And come New Year’s Day, demonstrators were still out in force. The highly unexpected assault, to use official diplomatic parlance, shined a very unflattering light on our long-running geopolitical clusterf with Iraq and Iran.