JERUSALEM, Aug 27 – After the Afghanistan deadly bombings, U.S. President Joe Biden Calls off meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. The meeting was previously scheduled at the White House on Friday, with Iran on the agenda. On Thursday Islamic State carried a deadly attack outside the Kabul airport, which killed 13 U.S. soldiers […]
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Biden says social media misinformation on Covid ‘killing people’
President Joe Biden said Friday that social media disinformation about Covid-19 and vaccinations is “killing people.” “They’re killing people. The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people,” he told reporters at the White House as he left for a weekend at the presidential retreat in Camp David. The White House […]
Pop star Olivia Rodrigo pushes Biden’s youth vaccination drive
Teen pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo said Wednesday she is “in awe” of White House efforts to get Americans vaccinated against Covid-19 and said getting the shot was “easy.” Rodrigo, who has some 28 million social media followers, is adding star power to the Biden administration attempt to lure young people to vaccination centers. The singer […]
Biden says US democracy threatened by Republican ‘subversion’
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that protecting voting rights from what he called Republican “election subversion” poses a historic “test” for the United States in the wake of the 2020 election. “It’s up to all of us to protect that right. It’s a test of our time,” he said in a speech in Philadelphia, birthplace […]
Afghanistan to rush troops to border as Taliban extend gains
Afghan authorities prepared Saturday to retake a key border crossing seized by the Taliban in a sweeping offensive that the insurgents claim has helped capture a vast swath of the violence-wracked nation. As US troops continued their withdrawal, the Taliban said its fighters had seized two crossings in western Afghanistan — completing an arc of […]
Biden unveils sweeping effort to counter corporate consolidation
Vowing to reset the economy for the benefit of everyday workers and consumers, President Joe Biden unveiled on Friday a wide-ranging plan to tilt the balance of power away from corporations and towards “the little guy.” Biden described the initiative as a shift from what he called Washington’s 40-year “experiment of letting giant corporations accumulate […]
Biden pushes giant infrastructure spending for ‘American century’
President Joe Biden pushed his giant infrastructure spending plans Wednesday in a speech urging the country to modernize and create “an American century.” “We have to think bigger, we have to act bolder and we have to build back better,” he said in a speech in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Referring to Ronald Reagan’s famous assertion […]
Biden seeks to turn debacle in Afghanistan to victory at home
The US pullout from the Pentagon’s once mighty Bagram Air Base in the dead of night, while Taliban fighters pour across the country, looks a lot like a military defeat. Back home, President Joe Biden sees a political win. The US government calls its Afghan exit a “drawdown,” not a retreat. And it insists it […]
Biden marks ‘independence’ from Covid, but pandemic remains a threat
President Joe Biden celebrated US Independence Day on Sunday with an upbeat assessment of a country he said is roaring back to post-pandemic life, even if Covid-19 has yet to be fully “vanquished.” Speaking before a festive crowd of 1,000 guests on the White House South Lawn, Biden drew a comparison between the declaration of […]
Biden marks Pride Month with memorial, LGBTQ envoy
Joe Biden marked Pride Month with joyful optimism and somber reflection Friday as the US president named an LGBTQ rights envoy and created a national memorial marking the deadliest tragedy to hit the country’s gay community. “Pride is back at the White House,” Biden told a group of gay rights activists, transgender military service members […]