Tag: Biden
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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…
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Biden proposes banning Chinese technology from ‘connected cars’ on U.S. roads
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday proposed prohibiting key Chinese software and hardware in connected vehicles on American roads due to national security concerns, a move that would effectively bar Chinese cars and trucks from the U.S. market. The planned regulation, first reported by Reuters, would also force American and other major automakers in years…
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Iranian hackers sent stolen Trump campaign info to Biden campaign associates, FBI says
Iranians sent “unsolicited emails” that included stolen material that was not publicly available from former President Donald Trump’s campaign to people associated with his Democratic political rival, the FBI and two other government agencies said Wednesday. The FBI and officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…
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Biden gives historic interview to LGBTQ newspaper
President Joe Biden’s administration is widely considered to be the most pro-LGBTQ in history, and as he enters his final months in the White House, Biden sat for an historic interview with one of the country’s oldest LGBTQ news outlets. In a wide-ranging interview published Monday in the Washington Blade, a D.C.-based LGBTQ newspaper founded…