Tag Archives: Joe Biden

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Three key U.S. Democratic senators on Tuesday released a proposal for a minimum tax on corporate profits to help pay for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. The proposal, released by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Angus King, would create a …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the National Archives and a House special committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in a bid to block Congress from obtaining certain documents related to the insurrection. “The Committee’s request amounts to nothing less …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden will host Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the White House on Thursday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday. “The leaders will discuss the strong U.S.-Kenyan bilateral relationship and the need to bring transparency and accountability to domestic and international financial systems,” …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday received his COVID-19 vaccine booster shot on camera at the White House. “Boosters are important, but the most important thing we need to do is get more people vaccinated,” Biden said before getting his booster shot. About 23 percent of …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Negotiations over U.S. President Joe Biden’s 3.5-trillion-U.S.-dollar spending bill have hit a “stalemate,” leaving the fate of his entire first-term agenda up in the air. The president on Friday said negotiations have hit a deadlock amid heated disagreements between progressives and moderates in his party, which …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The Joe Biden administration is preparing for a possible government shutdown in the event that current funding runs out on Sept. 30, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday. “It’s consistent with longstanding practice across many administrations for OMB to simply remind agency senior …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has received a consignment of  more than 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines thanks to a donation by the United States government. This is the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines that the Biden administration has sent to Uganda. The first arrived on September …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday defended his decision to hastily pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, a mission broadly criticized by the American public. During televised remarks delivered from the State Dining Room inside the White House, Biden spent a considerable portion of his speech …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration announced on Monday that it has opened civil rights investigations into five Republican-led statewide bans on mask mandates to determine if they discriminate against students with disabilities. The ban on mask mandates “may be preventing schools … from meeting their legal …

Kabul, Afghanistan | Xinhua | The Taliban welcomed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan shortly after the U.S. Central Command announced that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Asian country has completed, a Taliban spokesman said early Tuesday. The last U.S. soldiers were evacuated from Kabul airport at mid-night on Monday, Taliban …