Joe Biden

Former Vice President Joe Biden has chosen California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) as his nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), reported the New York Times on Sunday. Both Politico and NBC News confirmed the report. If confirmed, Becerra, 62, would be the first…

“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace pointedly corrected Secretary Alex Azar — three times — on Joe Biden’s correct title. It’s “president-elect, sir,” Wallace told the health and human services secretary when Azar referred to Biden as a “vice president.” Azar’s title demotion came as the two discussed cases of COVID-19 skyrocketing…

President Barack Obama expressed confidence in President-Elect Joe Biden’s character as the latter begins his transition into the White House. Promoting  his new memoire A Promised Land, Obama sat down with The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon to talk his experience as Commander In Chief, his greatest accomplishment as president and…

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Corky Siemaszko13h ago / 8:23 PM UTCN.J. Gov. Murphy calls Florida congressman "fool," bans him from Garden State over maskless partyThe governor of New Jersey called Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz a “fool” and a “putz” for taking part in a gathering of the New York Young Republicans Club in Jersey…

A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows President-elect Joe Biden wearing an ankle monitor. Verdict: False The video shows Biden wearing a walking boot, not an ankle monitor, after suffering hairline fractures in his right foot. Fact Check: The caption of the video, which has been shared over 2,900 times,…

President-elect Joe Biden threw his support behind a compromise relief plan in a CNN interview. "I think it should be passed, and I think that, in fact, we're going to need more," Biden said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper that aired Thursday evening. The relief plan appeared to…

Former Vice President Joe Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he would avoid conflicts between his family’s business interests and his job as president — a promise he failed to honor during the Obama-Biden administration. As Breitbart News contributor Peter Schweizer has demonstrated, several of Biden’s family members have used…

President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind a $908 billion bipartisan stimulus proposal that's roughly half the size offered by the Trump administration during negotiations with Democrats before the 2020 election.A coalition of Republican and Democratic senators, including Susan Collins of Maine and Joe Manchin of West Virginia,…

June 10, 1991 With Congress debating suspending China’s most favored nation trade status over the country’s human rights record and weapons proliferation, Biden and other leaders began floating the idea of creating Radio Free China, on the model of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. “The democratic ideal is alive…