The Biden administration plans to buy 500 million additional doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to donate to other countries, according to multiple reports. Biden is expected to announce the plans during the Group of Seven (G7) summit in the United Kingdom this week, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The president told reporters earlier in […]
Local leaders are stepping up the pressure on President Biden to tackle the issue of student debt by taking official action in their own jurisdictions that they hope will urge him to forgive some college loans. The District of Columbia and several other city governments have passed resolutions that call on the federal government to […]
President Biden on Wednesday exhorted Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 if they haven’t yet, announcing an aggressive campaign to reach his goal of having 70 percent of adults with at least one shot by July 4. During a speech at the White House, Biden highlighted the benefits of being fully vaccinated and also warned […]
President Biden on Tuesday traveled to Tulsa, Okla., to meet with the survivors of the city’s 1921 race massacre, unveiling a broad plan to drive racial equity throughout the country while holding up the city’s past as evidence of the pervasive effects of racism. Monday and Tuesday marked the centennial of the race massacre in […]
President Biden on Tuesday tasked Vice President Harris with leading his administration’s efforts to protect voting rights, adding an urgent and complex issue to her growing portfolio. Biden made the announcement during a speech in Tulsa, Okla., where he marked the 100th anniversary of a massacre in which a white mob killed hundreds of Black […]
The White House on Monday said that officials cannot draw a conclusion about the origins of COVID-19 without an independent investigation and more data from China. “We are and we have repeatedly called for the [World Health Organization] WHO to support an expert-driven evaluation of the pandemic’s origins that is free from interference and politicization,” […]
The Biden administration has cleared the release of three detainees, including an alleged 9/11 conspirator, who have been held in Guantánamo Bay for nearly two decades without having ever been charged with a crime. Saifullah Paracha, 73, and Abdul Rabbani, 54, both of Pakistan, and Uthman Abdul al-Rahim Uthman, 40, of Yemen, have all been […]
President Biden and Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib engaged in a tense, roughly eight-minute conversation on the airport tarmac Detroit after Biden’s arrival there Monday. Tlaib refused to say what she and the president discussed, but at one point Biden patted the congresswoman’s shoulder. Later, during a speech in Dearborn, he lavishly complimented her. “I want […]
The Biden administration has approved $735 million worth of precision-guided weapons to be sold to Israel, a congressional aide confirmed to The Hill on Monday. The sale, which Congress was officially notified of on May 5, has concerned some House Democrats who have pressed the administration to limit military support for the Israeli government in […]
According to AP-NORC survey released Monday, the president’s numbers are mixed on gun violence and underwater on immigration. Biden stands at 63% approval and 36% disapproval in the poll, which was conducted April 29-May 3. That compares to 54%-42% approval/disapproval in an average of all the most recent surveys that was compiled by Real Clear […]
The surprise statement Thursday by Jen Psaki that she would most likely step down as White House press secretary early next year has sparked speculation over who would succeed her behind the most famous lectern in the world. Most of the talk about the second press secretary to President Joe Biden pointed to a historic […]
President Biden’s White House on Friday released visitor logs cataloguing 400 visits from the first 12 days of the administration. The White House had pledged to release the logs for transparency purposes, a practice that was jettisoned under the former Trump administration. Friday’s release is the first batch of logs made public under Biden and […]