Tag: Biden
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Biden struggles with being out of the national conversation
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has privately complained to allies that his name and his accomplishments have virtually disappeared from the national conversation and about how quickly the party that he has served for more than five decades appears to have moved on from him, according to six people familiar with his comments. Biden has…
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Biden to visit North Carolina to survey Hurricane Helene damage
President Joe Biden said Monday that he plans to visit North Carolina on Wednesday to survey the damage from Hurricane Helene. More than 100 people have died as a result of the hurricane, according to an NBC News tally. At least 40 people died in Western North Carolina’s Buncombe County, where the city of Asheville…
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Trump falsely says Georgia’s governor was unable to talk to Biden about storm damange
Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has not been able to reach President Joe Biden to discuss Hurricane Helene’s impacts on his state. “He has been calling the president, but has not been able to get him,” Trump said during a press conference at a furniture store in Valdosta, Ga.…
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Biden administration doubles down on tough asylum restrictions at border
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday it is making asylum restrictions at the southern border even tougher, as it’s increasingly eager to show voters uneasy over immigration that it is taking a hard stance on border security. The new rules, which toughen restrictions announced in June, bar migrants from being granted asylum when…
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Netanyahu, not Biden, is setting the agenda in the Middle East
Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s longtime leader has driven home how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set the agenda in the Middle East in recent months, with a frustrated Biden White House unable to shape events or defuse a spreading conflict in the region. Officials in the Biden administration felt blindsided by the Israeli air strikes Friday in southern Beirut that…
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Top Democrat urges Biden admin to do more to help local election officials fight a flood of disinformation
A top Democratic senator is asking the Biden administration to do more to help state and local governments detect and respond to online disinformation campaigns designed to manipulate voters in the November election, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, urged the federal…
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Harris’ team is considering keeping Biden Cabinet officials if she wins and Democrats lose the Senate
WASHINGTON — If she wins in November, Vice President Kamala Harris may face a hostile, Republican-controlled Senate in no mood to confirm the senior Cabinet officials she’ll need to run her administration. Anticipating that scenario, Harris’ team is exploring whether to keep in place some of the Biden administration officials who’ve already been confirmed by…
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Biden admin offers $20 million reward for info on Iranian charged with plot to kill ex-Trump official John Bolton
The Biden administration is offering a reward of up to $20 million for information on a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who is charged with plotting to kill Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton. U.S. authorities say Shahram Poursafi allegedly worked to arrange a murder-for-hire scheme targeting Bolton between 2021 and…
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Biden meets Vietnam leader to counter Hanoi’s ties with China and Russia
NEW YORK — President Joe Biden met with Vietnamese President To Lam for talks on Wednesday, aiming to deepen relations with the Southeast Asian country and manufacturing hub and counter its ties with China and Russia. Biden and Lam, the ruling Communist Party chief making his first visit to the U.S. as president, met on…
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House to vote to condemn Biden, Kamala Harris and others over 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal
The House is set to vote Wednesday to formally condemn President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other officials over their handling of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The resolution, introduced by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, criticized the administration’s “chaotic, precipitous” Afghanistan withdrawal, saying its “willful refusal to properly…