Joe Biden
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People have short attention spans and “a lot of things can change” in the four months leading up to the US election, a former aide of Donald Trump has said. Anthony Scaramucci, who was Trump’s director of communications in 2017, told The World with Yalda Hakim that Joe Biden put on a “terrible performance” during the debate.…
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Joe Biden performed better in his rally speech as he had a teleprompter – but he “shows who he really is” when he has to think on his feet, a Republican media strategist has said. Providing some initial reaction to the event in North Carolina on our special edition of The World with Yalda Hakim, Brett…
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‘I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to’ The US president appears to reference his age and – as was perhaps unavoidable – his shaky performance at last night’s debate, as he continues his speech to supporters in North Carolina. “Folks, I don’t walk as easy as I used to, I don’t speak as…
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All eyes are on President Biden and former President Donald Trump this week as they prepare for their first 2024 presidential debate on Thursday. It’s the first time in U.S. history a sitting and former commander in chief will face off on the debate stage. The highly anticipated showdown on June 27 between Biden, 81, and Trump, 78, has a new set…
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President Biden lost more than half a million voters to the “uncommitted” movement in this year’s Democratic primaries, an effort that has netted 30 delegates across five states that has underscored frustration within his own party over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. With this week marking the last Democratic primaries in U.S. states for…
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Jury selection begins Monday in the gun trial of Joe Biden’s son Hunter, the first prosecution in US history for the child of a sitting president — just as the Democratic leader seeks to accelerate his reelection campaign. The case comes on the heels of another unprecedented trial, in which White House hopeful Donald Trump…
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A man who set himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where former US President Donald Trump is on trial has died. Maxwell Azzarello was “declared deceased by hospital staff”, police told NBC News in a phone call early on Saturday, local time. No specific time of death was given. Mr Azzarello, in his…
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The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives is set to vote on, and expected to pass, a $95bn package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan today. Before the voting, the House began a sombre but serious debate with an unusual sense of purpose as Republican committee chairs and top Democrats on the panels united…
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The overnight events do not reflect well on President Biden. He had signalled so emphatically just days ago for Israel not to retaliate. “Take the win,” the American president told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the early hours of Sunday morning. t was a message made public and combined with back-channel briefings we were…
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US President Joe Biden canceled another $7.4 billion student debt for 277,000 borrowers, the White House announced Friday in a statement. The move brings the total debt relief approved by the Biden administration to $153 billion for 4.3 million Americans over the last three years. “Today’s announcement comes on top of the significant progress we’ve…
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Joe Biden disagrees with Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and has called it a “mistake”. “I think what he’s doing is a mistake. I don’t agree with his approach,” the US president told Univision, a US Spanish-language TV network, in an interview filmed last Wednesday. It’s not the first time Mr Biden…
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President Biden wants to raise taxes on Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and their cohort of Americans, who are amassing extraordinary wealth that is not taxable under current law. Biden says his plan would make the system fairer — but experts say it lacks practicality. The president wants to impose a minimum 25% tax on all Americans with…
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The White House openly proclaiming Easter Sunday, the culmination of Holy Week, as the “Transgender Day of Visibility” is blasphemy that warrants an apology to those who observe the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Trump campaign demanded Saturday. “It is appalling and insulting that Joe Biden’s White House prohibited children from submitting religious egg designs for their Easter…
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United States President Joe Biden has declared Easter Sunday “Transgender Day of Visibility.” The International Transgender Day of Visibility was created on March 31, 2009, and has continued to be celebrated every March 31. The day was created to honour transgender people and raise awareness of the discrimination they continue to face. However, the White…
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The Biden administration is expected to impose new sanctions as early as Thursday on two Jewish outposts located beyond the Green Line that were allegedly used to launch attacks against Palestinians, according to an Axios report. The prospective sanctions to counter “settler violence” will also target three Israelis, said the report, citing three U.S. officials.…
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President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address was “very divisive,” but he never mentioned the things that matter to Americans — particularly on immigration and the southern border, Rep. Randy Weber said on Sunday. “He made fun of us when he talked about that border bill that was crafted by conservatives and lets 4,000 to 5,000…
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