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Jill Biden on teaching as first lady: ‘Knew I could do both’

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE We have to figure it out.’ like “fill glasses with ice” or
Associated Press Biden continues to teach “light candles” to her kitch-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill English and writing at en cabinets so family arriv-
Biden says she didn’t doubt Northern Virginia Commu- ing will know right away
that she could keep teach- nity College, which is where how to help.
ing as first lady and over- she taught during the eight “Everything is set up so
came the skepticism that years her husband was vice when somebody comes in,
she could handle both jobs president. Her staff back they do what they want to
by instructing her staff to then also doubted that she do,” she said.
“figure it out.” could teach and serve as The first lady also uses Post-
In a new interview in the second lady, but she man- it notes to communicate
September issue of Real aged. with the president.
Simple magazine, the first “I saw it work then, and I “If I want to get a message
lady describes how she knew we could figure out to Joe, I put one on his mir-
uses Post-it notes to man- how to do it now,” she said. ror,” she said.
age her large family, and Biden doesn’t like to use “It may be a nice ‘I missed First lady Jill Biden visits Schulze Academy, Thursday, July 21,
offers marriage advice to “juggling” or “balancing” you’ or ‘I hope you get 2022, in Detroit.
newlyweds hoping to cele- to describe how she han- whatever it is you’re work- Associated Press
brate 45 years of marriage dles her responsibilities. ing on.’”
as she and President Joe “You can’t do anything in a She said it’s taken a lot of when the car she was driv- “You have to work in any
Biden did on June 17. haphazard way,” she said. work for her and the presi- ing collided with a truck in relationship, but espe-
Biden is the first first lady to “You have to have purpose dent to get to 45 years of Delaware just before Christ- cially in marriage. It’s not
continue her career out- while you’re doing it, and it marriage. Both were mar- mas 1972. His two young always 50/50,” she said.
side the White House. has to be organized. That’s ried previously. sons were gravely injured. “Sometimes you lean on
“I think people were a little the key to it.” Joe Biden, 79, lost his first Jill Biden, 71, was divorced him, sometimes he leans on
skeptical. Could I truly do it, To that end, she relies on wife and infant daughter from her first husband. you.q
since I was the first one to Post-it notes to manage
try it?,” she said. “But I knew her family gatherings and
I wanted to teach.” save herself from having
She said she told her staff, to explain things over and
“This is what I want to do. over. She sticks instructions

Putin’s rumored girlfriend

hit with latest U.S. sanctions

By FATIMA HUSSEIN other property restrictions.
Associated Press The department said she
WASHINGTON (AP) — A is also head of a Russian
new round of U.S. sanctions national media company
targeting Russian elites in- that promotes Russia’s in-
cludes a woman named vasion of Ukraine.
in news reports as Vladimir Critics of the Kremlin and
Putin’s longtime romantic imprisoned Russian rights
partner. campaigner Alexey Na-
The Treasury Department valny have been calling for
said Tuesday that the gov- sanctions against Kabae-
ernment has frozen the visa va, saying her news outlet
of Alina Kabaeva, an Olym- took the lead in portraying
pic gymnast in her youth Western commentary on
and former member of the the invasion as a disinfor-
state Duma, and imposed mation campaign.q

Alina Kabayeva, a former champion rhythmic gymnast and
now a Duma member for the pro-Kremlin United Russia party,
attends the first plenary session of the newly-elected State
Duma, the lower parliament chamber, Moscow, Russia, Jan. 13,
2012.
Associated Press