Several family members of US Marines killed in Afghanistan had to wait for more than three hours as President Joe Biden napped aboard his Air Force One aircraft before a formal event by the US military to receive the bodies of service members in 2021, reports claimed. The president and First Lady Jill Biden were…
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed legislation that averts a government shutdown heading into Christmas, bringing a final close to days of upheaval in Washington after Congress passed a bipartisan budget plan just past the deadline and rejected Donald Trump’s core demand in the negotiations. The deal funds the government at current levels through March…
US President Joe Biden on Friday agreed to provide USD 571.3 million in defence support for Taiwan, the White House said, while the State Department approved the potential sale to the island of USD 265 million worth of military equipment. The US is bound by law to provide Chinese-claimed Taiwan with the means to defend…
Top diplomats from the Biden administration are in Damascus on Friday to meet new Syrian authorities led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a State Department spokesperson said, the first in-person and official meeting between Washington and Syria’s de-facto new rulers. The State Department’s top Middle East diplomat Barbara Leaf, Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger…
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday thanked deep-pocketed Democratic donors who raised record sums in last month’s election loss to President-elect Donald Trump and urged them not to lose hope and to remain politically engaged. Biden and Harris, along with their spouses, in remarks at the Democratic National Committee holiday reception…
US President Joe Biden has issued clemency to nearly 1500 people, including four Indian-Americans. These four Indian-Americans are Meera Sachdeva, Babubhai Patel, Krishna Mote and Vikram Dutta. “America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances. As President, I have the great privilege of extending mercy to people who have demonstrated remorse and…
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The commutations announced Thursday are for people who have served…
US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 individuals and granted 39 pardons, making it the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history, the White House announced on Thursday morning. Those whose sentences were commuted had been placed in home confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic and were noted to have successfully…
WASHINGTON: House Republicans teed up a vote this week on bipartisan legislation to gradually expand by 66 the number of federal judgeships across the country. Democrats, though, are having second thoughts now that President-elect Donald Trump has won a second term. The White House said Tuesday that if President Joe Biden were presented with the…
“A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” US President-elect Donald Trump gave a playful caption to a photo of him with First Lady Jill Biden to announce his new line of fragrances. The fragrance has been cheekily named “Fight, Fight, Fight” – the famous words uttered by Trump after he was shot at during campaigning for…