Joe Biden

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden's nominee for the ambassador to Beijing on Wednesday dubbed China aggressive and untrustworthy, insisting that boosting Taiwan's defenses against the threat of Chinese invasion should be a US priority.…

WASHINGTON: Jill Biden spoke candidly Wednesday about the challenges of her job as first lady and the unexpected scrutiny she's experienced in a position she never imagined having when she was young. Speaking at an event for the Barbara…

RIO DE JANEIRO: United States secretary of state Antony Blinken spoke with his Brazilian counterpart Carlos Franca to discuss "unprecedented" regional migration and ways to collaborate to slow the number of migrants heading north, the…

CHICAGO: General Electric Co (GE) has asked its United States-based workers to get the Covid-19 shots or seek a medical or religious accommodation by December 8 in order to comply with US President Joe Biden's executive order. As part…

WASHINGTON: The US State Department's inspector general will review the end of the Biden administration's diplomatic operations in Afghanistan, including the emergency evacuation of the US embassy in Kabul, a spokesperson said on Monday.…

WASHINGTON: Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US envoy whose months of hotel-ballroom diplomacy helped end the US war in Afghanistan but failed at preventing a Taliban takeover, resigned on Monday. In a letter to Secretary of State Antony…

MOSCOW: Russia plans to cease its diplomatic engagement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the Russian foreign minister said on Monday, in the latest sign of unravelling relations between Moscow and the West. Although…

WEST COLUMBIA: Jill Biden on Sunday returned to the South Carolina Baptist church where she says she began to repair her relationship with God following her son's death from brain cancer six years ago. The first lady quietly flew to West…

NASHVILLE: A federal judge has limited the ability for now of the nonprofit running Oak Ridge National Laboratory to place employees, who received exemptions to a Covid-19 vaccine requirement, on unpaid leave or fire them. District Judge…

ORANGE: Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection and will head home to New York to continue his recovery, a spokesman said. The former president left the University…