Joe Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic during a COVID-19 response event at the White House in Washington, January 21, 2021. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Newly elected President Joe Biden has a tall list of priorities in his first days in…

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, John Oliver has been broadcasting his weekly “Last Week Tonight” from home in a white-backgrounded “blank void” that looks very different from his usual New York City studio. Now in its sixth season, the HBO show picked up four Primetime Emmy Awards this…

Roundtable with Nnedinso OGAZIECHI As the world stayed glued to global cable networks to watch the inauguration of President Joe Biden and the first female Vice –President in America a few days ago, a few histories were made. The Vice President, Kamala Harris, the first woman of colour to rise…

WASHINGTON: A bust of labour rights organiser Cesar Chavez in the Oval Office, the return of Spanish to the White House website and Jennifer Lopez singing (pix) at the inauguration ceremony: Joe Biden’s presidency is only in its infancy but already it heralds a new era for Latinos in the…

Washington, DC — The direction that President Joe Biden will give to the U.S.-Africa relationship will be highly scrutinized as he brings America’s diplomacy back to the global stage. Democracy and the economy are the two fundamental areas of cooperation that he can use to rebuild ties. On U.S. efforts…

Geneva — On Thursday 21 January, the day following the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the leading U.S. infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, officially participated for the first time…

No, Donald Trump didn't attend President Joe Biden's inauguration—but he did leave him a note at the White House.  White House spokesman Judd Deere confirmed to USA Today that former POTUS wrote new POTUS a message. The contents of it? Unclear, just that "it’s a letter between 45 and 46."…

Win McNamee/Getty Images As President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office today, he begins an aggressive agenda as president, including a number of executive orders aimed at getting the COVID-19 pandemic under control. One is a national mask mandate on federal property and on airlines, trains and other public transit…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inauguration Day for President-elect Joe Biden will look unlike anything the nation has seen before as the scars of COVID-19 and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol turn the West Front into a virtual ghost town compared to years past. Instead of a parade down…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden swears the oath of office at noon Wednesday to become the 46th president of the United States, taking the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors. The very ceremony in which presidential…