The U.S. added 531,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to 4.6 percent as the country began to shake off a summer surge of COVID-19, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The October jobs report showed the labor market rebounding after the July emergence of the delta […]
China has taken President Biden’s comments in Glasgow climate summit as a chance to mock the president as “powerless,” despite the absence of President Xi Jinping from the conference. Biden spoke at the opening of the COP26 U.N. climate summit on Monday, stressing the need for “action and solidarity” while also using the moment to “apologize” for the fact “the U.S., under the […]
WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans now disapprove of President Joe Biden’s job performance, while half give him low marks for competence and uniting the country, according to results from the latest national NBC News poll. What’s more, the survey finds that 7 in 10 adults, including almost half of Democrats, believe the nation is headed […]
Pope Francis described President Biden as a “good Catholic” during their meeting on Friday, according to Biden, and also said that he should keep receiving communion. Biden told reporters that the issue of abortion rights, which Biden supports and which has led to calls for the Catholic Church to not offer him communion, did not come up in […]
Former President Trump suffered from negative poll numbers during his four-year tenure in the White House, and now his successor is suffering the same fate, with a new national poll indicating that President Biden’s standing among Americans remains well underwater. Just 37% of Americans questioned in a Quinnipiac University survey say they approve of the […]
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg recently went on the defense regarding his two month paternity leave. During an interview Monday with MSNBC, he said the leave was demanding work rather than a vacation. The former South Bend mayor and his husband, Chasten, adopted twins in mid-August, prompting Buttigieg to take his aforementioned leave. He first […]
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has tested positive for COVID-19, DHS confirmed on Tuesday – just days after he attended an event with President Biden. A DHS spokesperson told Fox News that contact tracing was underway after Mayorkas tested positive Tuesday morning. “Secretary Mayorkas is experiencing only mild congestion; he is fully vaccinated and will […]
Biden said it had been a historically difficult period for police, arguing that the wider public didn’t understand the difficulties and that the country would have a harder time finding people to be officers as a result. “I’ve been coming to this memorial for 40 years, missed a couple, and I’ve spoken to too many […]
The Biden administration said Friday it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court in another attempt to halt a Texas law that has banned most abortions since September. It comes as the Texas clinics are running out of avenues to stop the GOP-engineered law that bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, which is […]
Shortages in the global supply chain are creating steep challenges for President Biden at a time when he’s already grappling with low approval ratings and major hurdles to getting his economic agenda through Congress. The White House sought to demonstrate that administration officials are tackling the supply chain disruptions head on with Wednesday’s announcement that […]
White House Climate Envoy John Kerry went viral on Tuesday after telling French television that President Biden was unaware of the spat between the U.S. and France as it fueled last month. During a Monday interview with BFMTV, Kerry attempted to smooth over the international dustup after France expressed it was blindsided by the Biden […]
The State Department said on Sunday that the U.S. is “very concerned” about China’s “provocative military activity near Taiwan” following Beijing’s most recent show of air power near the self-governing island. “The United States is very concerned by the People’s Republic of China’s provocative military activity near Taiwan, which is destabilizing, risks miscalculations, and undermines […]