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US President Joe Biden "teased" a journalist about running them over with the vehicle he was travelling in. Photo / AP As Joe Biden sat behind the wheel of an electric pickup truck in Michigan recently a reporter's inquiry through the window was polite enough. "Mr President, can I ask…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A special congressional election is checking the political pulse of politics across the Albuquerque metro area and a few outlying rural communities in one of the few House campaigns since President Joe Biden took office.Read More

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday will ask Congress for the authority to spend nearly $6 trillion in 2022, which would give him the resources to begin implementing an ambitious agenda of infrastructure investment and expanded social programs. However, the blueprint would also increase federal spending to a nearly unprecedented…

Democrats quickly began pounding on and fundraising off GOP senators who blocked the commission. They say the vote gives them an argument to use against Republicans in the midterm elections. Republicans say they were wary of allowing a "partisan commission" to move forward. See more stories on Insider's business page.…

President Joe Biden released his budget Friday, proposing $6.01 trillion in annual spending even as the economy is going through record inflation. The Commerce Department reported Friday that core personal consumption expenditures hit a 3.1 percent annual gain in April — the highest since May 1992. The plan calls for…

Sen. Rick Scott said Thursday he will block top Homeland Security nominees until President Biden makes a trip to the southern border to get a firsthand look at the situation. Mr. Scott revealed his stance at a confirmation hearing with three nominees, the picks for deputy secretary, general counsel, and…

Security personnel keep watch outside Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease in Wuhan, China on February 3. Photo: Reuters The US president requests further analysis on pandemic’s origin, to be completed in 90 days…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two leading congressional Democrats issued a call Wednesday for ideas on a “public option” health insurance plan, a campaign promise of President Joe Biden's that faces long odds politically. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on Capitol Hill…

Topline President Joe Biden’s administration shut down a clandestine State Department operation intended to prove the lab-based origins of Covid-19 over concerns about the work’s poor quality and its politicized, premature and selective use by Trump and his allies to blame the pandemic on China, according to CNN.   Wuhan Institute…

The family of George Floyd met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday, marking not just the first anniversary of Floyd’s death but urging passage of a landmark police reform bill. Biden had set Tuesday as the deadline for Congress to pass the legislation, but that is…