Facing the challenges posed by an increasingly hostile China, the United States and Japan are expected to further integrate their militaries and announce new agreements on technology and defense on Wednesday, while President Biden pays Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a state visit to Washington receives. The talks are part of the Biden administration’s diplomatic efforts…
Ashley Biden speaks alongside her father US President Joe Biden during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Florida woman who stole a diary and other items belonging to Ashley Biden — President Joe…
When President Biden hung up, he had finally made the threat he had rejected for months: Israel must change course, he told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or the United States would. But as the conversation ended Thursday, aides to Mr. Biden said, the president had reason to hope that the message had gotten through and…
President Biden plans to visit on Friday the site of the Baltimore Bridge, which collapsed after a massive cargo ship plowed into it last week, killing six people and severing a key shipping and transportation artery. During his visit to the Francis Scott Key Bridge wreck, Mr. Biden will take an aerial tour, receive information…
Democrats in Congress are increasingly concerned about how Israel is waging war in Gaza and are considering whether to use their influence over arms sales to raise objections to the civilian death toll and increase pressure on President Biden to set conditions for the to provide US support for the military offensive. While top Republicans…
One of the strongest voices in the White House calling for an end to civilian casualties in Gaza is the person closest to the president: Jill Biden. At a meeting with Muslim community members at the White House on Tuesday evening, a guest told President Biden that his wife disapproved of his participation in the…
Simon Rosenberg was right about the 2022 congressional elections. All of the conventional wisdom — the polls, the punditry, the anger of other Democrats — revolved around the expectation of a big red wave and Democratic extinction. He disagreed. The Democrats would surprise everyone, he said again and again: There would be no red wave….
President Joe Biden spent nearly two hours on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday. The White House described this conversation as an opportunity for the two leaders to “check in” and responsibly manage the strained US-China relationship. “Intense competition requires intense diplomacy to manage tensions, address miscalculations and prevent inadvertent conflicts,” a…
A few hours before his State of the Union address last month, President Biden called the CEOs of General Motors and Cisco Systems to ask for their advice on the state of the American economy and to tell them how he planned to talk about it. He then drove to Capitol Hill and promised in…
According to a White House statement, President Biden spoke with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, on Tuesday morning in a phone call aimed at addressing a broad range of combative and cooperative issues as the United States grapples with wars and other global crises. Topics on Mr. Biden’s agenda included the fight against drug production, the…
