Joe Biden also denounced a wave of shootings that overshadowed Independence Day. Washington: President Joe Biden called again Tuesday for stricter gun control measures while denouncing a wave of shootings that overshadowed Independence Day. Five people were killed and four wounded in a shooting in Philadelphia Monday night, police said.Read More →
Injunction came in response to a lawsuit by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri. Washington: A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday blocked key Biden administration agencies and officials from meeting and communicating with social media companies, the Washington Posted reported. The injunction came in response to a lawsuit broughtRead More →
Joe Biden “strongly” disagrees with the Supreme Court’s decision. (File) Washington: The US Supreme Court dealt President Joe Biden a significant political setback Tuesday when it overruled his landmark program to cancel the student debt of millions of Americans. The court said President Biden had overstepped his powers in cancellingRead More →
It was President Biden’s second verbal slip-up in 24 hours. (File) Washington: In a new verbal slip-up, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “losing the war in Iraq” when he meant to say Ukraine. Speaking to reporters briefly before departing the White HouseRead More →
Joe Biden’s comment comes a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Xi Jinping in Beijing. Washington: U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator, adding that Xi was very embarrassed when a Chinese balloon was blown off course over the U.S. recently. BidenRead More →
Washington: US President Joe Biden on Saturday said he is heartbroken by the tragic news of a train crash in India that has killed nearly 300 people. The crash in Odisha’s Balasore district involving three trains is one of the worst rail accidents in India in nearly three decades. AtRead More →
US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a debt ceiling bill passed by Congress. Washington: US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a debt ceiling bill passed by Congress after weeks of wrangling, moving to avert a catastrophic, self-induced default in the world’s biggest economy. TheRead More →
A default would likely have catastrophic consequences. (File) Washington: US President Joe Biden and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said they were confident Sunday of pushing a debt crisis deal through Congress and avoiding a cataclysmic default, despite skepticism from some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. The tentative agreementRead More →
Biden and McCarthy also spoke by phone Sunday as the president flew home from a G7 summit in Japan. Washington: A top US Republican on Monday said his first one-on-one talks in months with President Joe Biden to avert a calamitous debt default were “productive” but that there was stillRead More →
“We will not waver, Putin will not break our resolve as he thought he could,” Joe Biden said. (File) Hiroshima, Japan: Ukraine’s backers “will not waver”, US President Joe Biden said Sunday after talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is in Hiroshima on a surprise visit to the G7 summit.Read More →
