Joe Biden

President Joe Biden has for the first time described the recent surge of illegal immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border as a crisis, in the midst of Republican-led pressure to do so. Over the weekend, Biden was asked by a reporter in Delaware about his policy on refugee admissions. “We’re going…

April 18, 20212:22 PM UTC Reuters 1 minute read It will be "very hard" for President Joe Biden's administration to meet a previous goal that would have raised the cap to 62,500 refugee admissions this fiscal year, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a television interview broadcast on…

President Joe Biden appears to be confounded by the substance and politics of immigration. The latest evidence of that is Friday's laughable-if-it-wasn't-so-serious White House backtrack of Biden's walk-back on refugee policy. After promising to raise President Donald Trump's annual cap on refugee admissions from 15,000 to 62,500, Biden balked Friday…

The US administration under President Joe Biden has pledged to change course in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The reinstatement of aid payments to the Palestinians, suspended under former US leader Donald Trump, marked the start. While it could be interpreted as a positive sign in a new direction, it may be…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten liberal senators are urging President Joe Biden to back India and South Africa’s appeal to the World Trade Organization to temporarily relax intellectual property rules so coronavirus vaccines can be manufactured by nations that are struggling to inoculate their populations. The lawmakers, in a letter delivered…

Stewart Elgie: Joe Biden’s impressive tax incentives are luring clean technology companies that incubated in Canada. The federal budget should be a turning point in the fight to keep them here. Stewart Elgie is a professor of law and economics at University of Ottawa, and chair of the Smart Prosperity…

Although we’re still less than three months into the Biden administration, there’s already an eagerness all around to characterize and define his presidency. This is understandable on a psychological level⁠—we live in harrowing and uncertain times; the American people and opinion leaders are trying to understand where the country is…

No one who watched the inauguration of Joe Biden could have missed that he was a Roman Catholic. Before the day’s public ceremonies, he attended a private Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, named for the patron saint of civil servants. Then, at the Capitol, a Jesuit…

Author of the article: WASHINGTON — U.S. senators will receive a classified briefing on President Joe Biden’s goal of withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday. “I think this is a careful, thought-out plan. Now, there are questions that remain. I’m…

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden would be contingent on U.S. behaviour after reportedly telling Washington to scrap a plan to impose new sanctions on Russia. Biden, in a phone call on Tuesday, proposed a…