Joe Biden

4.22pm GMT16:22 Shifting back to the coronavirus relief package, Nancy Pelosi was asked whether the House legislation would include the proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15. “Yes, it will,” the Democratic speaker said. Pelosi said the chamber was “very proud” of the minimum wage hike, which would result…

Joe Biden is an unlikely superhero, but it is time to acknowledge that America’s 46th president has a superpower. Almost unique among our nation’s leaders, Biden has demonstrated that he has the ability to resist the potent force field emanating from Donald Trump that has held Americans in its thrall…

The Trump administration's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic was an unequivocal failure. My fellow Democratic governors and I were left to fill the galling void of leadership–enacting commonsense face mask mandates for public spaces, encouraging people to not gather or travel, fighting to get personal protective equipment to frontline workers…

Rudy Giuliani's Twitter account has lost tens of thousands of followers since President Joe Biden took office on January 20. Giuliani, a personal attorney to Donald Trump and former mayor of New York City, has seen several large plunges in follower numbers over the past month, according to the social…

(Reuters) - When Stan Rounds heard about U.S. President Joe Biden’s plans to suspend new drilling on federal lands to fight climate change, he worried about the education budget. FILE PHOTO: Drilling rigs operate in the Permian Basin oil and natural gas production area in Lea County, New Mexico, U.S.,…

On Thursday, US President Joe Biden issued a Presidential memorandum aimed at expanding protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people worldwide, including potential use of financial sanctions. In 2011, Barack Obama issued the first Presidential memorandum directing US agencies abroad to promote LGBTQI…

John Fritze   | USA TODAY WASHINGTON – A number of progressives appear to be heading toward a showdown with President Joe Biden over a new commission that will study changes to the Supreme Court, underscoring the tricky politics at play for an administration that is aiming for bipartisanship but also hoping to retain support from…

Businesswoman looking at stock exchange market display screen board in downtown financial district. Hopes that US lawmakers would pass President Joe Biden's huge stimulus package helped push Asian markets higher again Monday.After a rout at the end of January, the global rally across equities appeared to be back on track.All…

President Joe Biden has launched a campaign supporting LGBTIQ people abroad. The campaign puts their rights higer on the US foreign policy agenda than ever before. Biden said he was ordering all US government agencies abroad to promote the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people. President Joe Biden…

Hey so the Super Bowl is this Sunday, so of course that’s what “SNL” focused on in the latest episode’s cold open. And while, for the second week in a row, the cold open practically ignored the intense political news of the week, it did mine them for some funny…