Joe Biden

Biden's comment – given the US record in Iraq, Libya and elsewhere – serves Putin's claim that his Ukraine invasion was pre-emptive.

And the aim of all of this - Russians will most likely conclude after Biden’s statement at the weekend - is to overthrow their government. Instead, what the Nato countries led by the US have done is flood Ukraine with weapons to take on the Russian army. Even though al-Qaeda and IS were supposed to be the sworn enemies of the United States, Washington quickly revised its allegiances. To understand how things look to the Kremlin, one has to recall a pattern of events following the fall of the Soviet Union. What attention has been paid to that period focuses on the question of whether Washington made promises that Nato would not expand into the former Soviet states. The aim was to make concrete Bush’s " Us and Them" doctrine. Doubtless, the most important lesson learned by Putin occurred in Syria. Its president, Bashar al-Assad, requested help from the Russian military after popular protests erupted in 2011 and soon morphed into a civil war. That game plan proved much harder to realise in practice than anyone in Washington appears to have imagined. US ambitions for regime change – supposedly justified by efforts to stop war crimes – have been at the heart of US foreign policymaking in the post-Soviet era. In the process, rivals like Russia and China would find themselves isolated and weakened, surrounded by either US client states or failed states. Through the late 1990s, two self-serving and dangerous ideas became fused in the imagination of Washington’s foreign policy elite. They also confirmed suspicions in Moscow that the US and its European allies, such as the UK, were still expansionist powers, bent on imperial conquest. Earlier this month, Biden accused Putin of being a "war criminal", even though the charge drips with hypocrisy.

President Joe Biden had a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday, days after saying Vladimir Puttin 'cannot remain in power' in ...

Zelensky pleaded in a speech to NATO allies for nations to spare just 1 per cent of their tanks and planes. The attacks come hours after Moscow pledged to scale back military operations in those places Zelensky, for his part, has said he is open to direct talks with Putin – and in a recent interview signaled he was open to Ukrainian 'neutrality,' but said any change in status must be decided in a referendum after the removal of Russian troops. President Joe Biden delivers a speech about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the Royal Castle, Saturday, March 26, 2022, in Warsaw, where he concluded in a flourish where he said Putin must not remain in power Biden told his counterpart the US would provide $500 million in direct budgetary aid, which appears to be in addition to a recently announced $1 million in humanitarian aide, and an $800 million batch of military aid. Biden calls Zelensky for the first time after his Putin 'removed from power' gaffe and offers $500M MORE in aid after Ukraine said the West wasn't doing enough to fight back against Russian forces

He received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in December 2020 and the second in January 2021, both on live television.

The White House has dealt with a series of Covid scares in recent weeks. Biden, 79, received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in December 2020 and the second in January 2021, both on live television. The president joked that he believes “it discourages people getting the vaccination when they watch people get a needle in their arm, so I apologize.”

President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass billions of dollars in additional funding to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, as he received a second booster ...

Scientists say one reason BA.2 has gained ground is that it’s about 30% more contagious than the original omicron. Biden spoke as his administration rolled out COVID.gov, designed to be a one-stop website to help people in the United States access COVID-19 tests, vaccines and treatments, along with status updates on infection rates where they live. “This isn’t partisan, it’s medicine.”

President Joe Biden is set to receive a second booster dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, the White House announced, a day after federal ...

The president urged Congress to act on funding for efforts to combat the pandemic. Patrick Semansky/AP. President Joe Biden received his ...

The White House has asked for $22.5 billion in immediate aid to keep COVID-19 programs afloat. We've had to cancel planned orders and cut the supply we're sending to the states. "We have enough tests on hand to weather the surge. At the same time, monoclonal antibody treatment supplies distributed to states each week has been cut by 35%. And the U.S. supply could run out entirely by May if funding isn't secured -- a point Biden hit on. Without more funding, we'll start to run out of them by the end of May," he said. It's all there," Biden said.

In this column, Cal Thomas compares the words and events of three presidents in their dealings with the Soviet Union/Russia through the years.

The situation with Ukraine is different from what Kennedy and Reagan faced. What’s the endgame and what is America’s strategy for reaching it? I think Kennedy and Reagan might have approved of such a goal. Freedom is the victor. Biden later denied he was calling for Putin’s ouster, but the damage was done. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace.

If the Black community at large continues to vote for politicians who willfully mishandle the economy, it will be voting for its own destruction.

We know this because we just experienced a Republican presidency that saw the lowest unemployment rate in the Black and Hispanic community in history. The simple fact is that in America today, it is the Republicans who offer our community a brighter, more secure, and more prosperous future. If the Black community at large continues to vote for politicians who willfully mishandle the economy, it will be voting for its own destruction. Inflation is an invisible tax on poor people, and the percentage of Black Americans in poverty is practically double their percentage of the total population. As of this week, the national gas price average stands well above $4.00, according to the AAA, and last month Americans suffered the largest rise in food prices since 1981. This calamitous state of economic affairs is not occurring in a vacuum.

President Biden received his fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday and announced the launch of informational website COVID.gov — as he urges ...

The Trump administration purchased 500 million doses of Pfizer’s two-dose vaccine in 2020 for $10 billion. “There are billions of dollars unspent.” Just $482 billion went toward health care, according to a recent New York Times analysis. Republicans say that with inflation at a 40-year high, the funds should be diverted from existing appropriations. Biden’s launch of COVID.gov was the original billing of his Wednesday remarks. “Even worse, if we need a different vaccine for the future to combat a new variant, we’re not gonna have enough money to purchase it.

Political opponents derided Trump for seeking dirt on Hunter and Joe Biden from Putin, who is accused of war crimes over the invasion of Ukraine.

Political opponents derided Trump for seeking dirt on Biden from Putin, especially after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has included sustained attacks on civilians. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press." They called it the latest example of Trump toadying up to Putin, whom he he has described as "smart' and "savvy" after Putin authorized an invasion of neighboring Ukraine. "I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer." Amid criticism of his high regard for the Russian president and accused war criminal, former president Trump used an interview this week to ask Putin to release any information he has on reports a Russian oligarch gave money a decade ago to a company co-founded by President Joe Biden's son Hunter.

President Joe Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a call on Wednesday that the United States plans to provide Ukraine with an additional ...

Reuters reported that the United States and its allies were discussing providing as much as $500 million collectively. Following Zelenskyy’s impassioned address to Congress earlier this month, the administration announced an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine, bringing the total amount of U.S. contributions to Ukraine since the start of the Biden administration to roughly $2 billion. Biden most recently announced $1 billion in humanitarian assistance when he traveled to Europe last week.

A viral photo of President Joe Biden on the White House lawn is authentic. Several news outlets took footage of Biden's departure.

Some Twitter users claimed the weather in Washington on March 23 was rainy and cloudy, indicating the photo is inauthentic. Biden's tweet was posted at 10:47 a.m., about two hours after the photo was taken. Southern magnolias can be seen in photos of the White House covered in snow. According to the Weather Underground, conditions were fair at that time. The trees in the photo are southern magnolias, which have leaves year-round. "There were no leaves on those trees yesterday," reads a March 25 post from the Cajun Libertarian Facebook page.

Susan Collins, the Republican senator for Maine, announced she would support Joe Biden's pick of Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman on the US ...

Updated Does it sow dissension in the ranks? Updated It could make Putin reconsider whom he can trust,” that official said. Updated “We believe that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the Russian military is performing and how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions, because his senior advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth,” the US official added.

President Joe Biden plans Thursday to invoke Cold War powers to encourage domestic production of critical minerals for electric-vehicle and other types of ...

US president says 'Covid-19 no longer controls our lives' and asks Congress for more money to continue effort to fight the virus.

And then we got to work and we delivered enough vaccines for every American months ahead of schedule, effective treatments, at-home tests that are free and accessible. It means that Covid-19 no longer controls our lives.” It does not mean that Covid-19 is over.

U.S. President Joe Biden could invoke a Cold War-era defense law as soon as this week to encourage the domestic production of minerals needed to make the ...

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When President Joe Biden tapped Ashish Jha as the new leader of his coronavirus response, he hailed the well-known public health expert as the “perfect ...

We’re still very much in the throes of the pandemic.” Some Covid team staffers, convinced that Jha’s appointment precedes a hollowing out of the White House-level pandemic response unit, are looking for new jobs. Zients had long relied on Jha’s outside input in crafting the White House’s response over the past year, and Jha has privately worked with top officials at the CDC and Food and Drug Administration on Covid issues. “Dr. Jha has the calming, steady hand and deep public health and pandemic preparedness knowledge we need,” Zients said in a statement. And while the team knew Zients and his deputy, Natalie Quillian, were planning to leave eventually, some staffers felt betrayed — especially since Zients had previously prevailed on some of them to stay on longer than they’d planned, three people familiar with the matter said. “We have all the infrastructure in place,” a senior administration official said. “It’s really important that the White House continue to lift up the message that the pandemic isn’t over.” On top of all the logistical challenges, health officials are closely tracking the rise of the Omicron subvariant, BA.2, for signs that a new surge is already on the horizon. “And there’s a lot more that has to be coordinated.” Is it a new era in Biden’s war on Covid, or the beginning of the end for the White House’s crisis response? Ashish Jha takes over the Covid task force at a point of transition in the pandemic fight. And among Democratic voters and lawmakers alike, there is a growing desire to finally leave the pandemic behind.

The president got his second booster shot and lobbied for Congress to provide more funding. But the pandemic is dropping in importance among the public.

Democratic leaders in the House stripped $15.6 billion for COVID from the broader, recently approved $1.5 trillion spending bill when some of their own members joined Republicans to oppose it, calling it excessive. He warned that money is quickly drying up for running vaccine centers, producing more vaccines in the event of a new variant, and even for funding proven therapies like monoclonal antibodies. Without more funding, we’ll start to run out of them by the end of May,” he said. Most people who want the vaccine have already received two or three doses, and hospitalizations and deaths are now occurring overwhelmingly among those who refuse to be inoculated. “I’ve always thought that it discourages people getting a vaccination when they watch people get a needle in their arm. “Americans are back to living their lives again.

On March 29, President Joe Biden announced on Twitter that he would be signing "the long overdue Emmett Till Antilynchin.

But White House officials weren’t the only ones to capture this event. That’s "gentle breeze" territory, according to the Weather Service’s guide to estimating wind speed. President Joe Biden tweet, March 29, 2022 According to the National Weather Service, it was cold, but not freezing. "The south lawn of the WH was completely empty, no chairs or anything set up. "This DID NOT happen yesterday," the March 30 post says.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged lawmakers to secure more funding for his administration's Covid-19 response and warned of severe consequences for the ...

The CDC released what's known as a permissive recommendation -- a statement that the shots may be used in this age group for those who want them. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added that adults who got Johnson & Johnson's vaccine as their primary and first booster shots at least four months prior may now get an additional booster of Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna's vaccines. The FDA had previously allowed second booster shots for anyone 12 years of age or older who was severely immune deficient, starting four months after their first booster. Biden said the government has had to cancel planned orders of monoclonal antibodies, which are used to treat Covid-19 infections, and cut the supply it is sending to states. The White House says the initiative has so far expanded to more than 2,000 locations across the nation. After delivering his speech, the President received his second booster shot on camera.

Amid widespread criticism of his praise for Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump publicly called on the Russian leader to release any dirt he may have on Hunter ...

Putin’s heinous attack on a proud and sovereign nation shocks the conscience of every person of goodwill.” Trump reiterated his push for info on Biden in a statement Wednesday afternoon. Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump told a conservative podcaster the week of Russia's invasion. I think he should release it,” Trump said. Trump later pressured the Ukrainian government to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, who was then seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, leading to the former president's first impeachment. Amid widespread criticism of his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, former President Donald Trump publicly called on Putin on Tuesday to release any dirt he might have on Hunter Biden, the president’s son.

When he ran for president, Joe Biden was sold as the adult in the room who would choose his words carefully. But in just the past few days, he's called for ...

More importantly, it’s a reminder of how dangerous this war continues to be and of the knife-edge the world has teetered on since it began. Jennifer Rubin, who once suggested Trump could be held legally liable for the outcomes of his verbal playing down of COVID-19, admonished Biden’s advisers for “contradict[ing]” and “undercut[ting]” him. Just think about the decades-long reluctance of US presidents to refer to Turkey’s more-than-century-old butchering of Armenians as the genocide it was, for fear of the response it might provoke from an ally. One of the leading criticisms of Donald Trump was that, given his verbal diarrhea and the fact that he wasn’t a professional politician, his loose lips and freewheeling, no-filter style were dangerous when it came to the most powerful office in the world. Suggesting the US government is trying to remove the increasingly unpredictable autocrat who rules the country isn’t exactly conducive to avoiding that outcome, nor to the success of the delicate ceasefire negotiations going on between Moscow and Kiev right now. The shift from Trump to Biden would be “day and night, black and white,” one veteran diplomat assured the public.

President Joe Biden said the U.S. has enough vaccine supply to ensure people ages 50 and older can get their fourth doses. The Centers for Disease Control ...

FILE - These Sept. 29, 2020, photos show then-President Donald Trump and his opponent in the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden, during their first ...

Allies of Trump tried to get journalists to investigate the laptop during the 2020 election campaign, but many balked because of the circumstances under which the data from the machine was obtained. In a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019, Trump appeared to condition the sale of military equipment to Ukraine on Zelenskyy’s willingness to do him a “favor” by announcing an investigation into the Bidens. He was paid a generous $50,000 per month, despite having no apparent expertise in the energy business. Hunter Biden’s business dealings have been a target of intense interest among Trump and his political allies. While Hunter Biden’s business dealings have been under investigation by federal prosecutors since at least 2018, the information about the payment from Baturina was revealed in a Republican-led Senate inquiry. Also, his father was in charge of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy at the time. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” On Tuesday, The Washington Post published an investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China. The report relied on data from a laptop computer that Biden was purported to have left at a computer repair store and that was later turned over to the FBI. “I think he should release it.” Also on Tuesday, Evgeny Popov, a member of the Russian Duma and the host of a program on state-run television, said during a broadcast that it was time for Russian citizens to call on U.S. citizens to end Biden’s term early, “and to again help our partner Trump to become president.” Trump characterized the payment as having been made to the “Biden family,” but it was actually made to an entity called Rosemont Seneca Thornton. Hunter Biden was an original founder of the investment fund Rosemont Seneca, but his attorney said that he had no connection with or interest in Rosemont Seneca Thornton. In an interview Tuesday, former U.S. President Donald Trump specifically asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information that Trump believes would implicate the family of U.S. President Joe Biden in financial wrongdoing.

President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve.

A new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows President Joe Biden's policies are the number one thing Americans blame for the recent rise in gas ...

But when it came to the actual confirmation hearings, 52% of Americans disapproved of the way Republican senators handled the confirmation process, compared with 27% who approved. On the other hand, independents place Biden at the top of the list, with 39% blaming his economic policies. Twenty-five percent of independents blame the war in Ukraine, while 23% place the blame on oil companies. The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Doug Schwartz, Ph.D. since 1994, conducts independent, non-partisan national and state polls on politics and issues. Two other factors tied for second place at 24% each. Among Democrats, however, the war in Ukraine and oil companies tie in first place at 41% each, while the rise in demand for gas shifted to third place at 10%. Only 3% of Democrats blame Biden’s economic policies.

The Biden administration is considering releasing up to 180 million barrels of oil over several months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), four U.S. ...

The United States, Britain and others have previously urged OPEC+ to quickly boost output. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Russia is one of the world's top producers of oil, contributing about 10% to the global market. Brent crude, the world benchmark, soared to about $139 earlier this month, highest since 2008, and was near $110 a barrel in Asian trading on Thursday. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com The White House said Biden will deliver remarks at 1:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on "his administration's actions to reduce the impact of Putin's price hike on energy prices and lower gas prices at the pump for American families." U.S. crude futures fell $4.70 to $103.12 a barrel and Brent futures fell by $4.45, or 3.9%, to $109 a barrel on news of the potential release. IEA member states agreed earlier in March to release over 60 million barrels of oil reserves, with 30 million barrels coming from the U.S. SPR. U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said last week while on a trip to Europe that the United States and its allies in the IEA were discussing a further coordinated release from storage. But sanctions and buyer reluctance to buy Russian oil could remove about 3 million barrels per day (bpd) of Russian oil from the market starting in April, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said. WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - The Biden administration is considering releasing up to 180 million barrels of oil over several months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), four U.S. sources said on Wednesday, as the White House tries to lower fuel prices.

President Joe Biden is weighing releasing a record amount of oil from US reserves as high gas prices continue to persist.

In Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp -- who is facing one of the toughest reelection races in the country -- signed a bill that will give $250 to $500 tax refunds to Georgians -- a move several of his rivals blasted as election-year politicking. to hand out $400 debit cards to drivers in the state to help soften the impact of the highest gas prices in the country.

The president is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve, sources said.

The Biden administration in November announced the release of 50 million barrels from the strategic reserve in coordination with other countries. The duration of the release hasn’t been finalized but could be several months. The announcement could come as soon as Thursday, when the White House says Biden is planning to deliver remarks on his administration’s plans to combat rising gas prices.

President expected to detail plan aimed at reducing crude prices that are fuelling inflation.

Some social media users are sharing a video that they claim President Joe Biden doesn't want on the internet. The video.

Biden was speaking in North Liberty, Iowa, during the 2020 Iowa caucus when a heckler stood up and walked out of the room, telling Biden that he could be the "Hillary of 2020." The crowd chanted "Let’s Go Joe," and then Biden began to speak. The video posted March 27 on Facebook is a compilation of clips from three Biden speeches and it claims to show him being heckled by the crowds. This video of people shouting profanity at Biden is not real. We found the original videos after identifying key details and quotes from each of the three clips and searching the information on Google. The clips that purportedly show people shouting profanity at Biden do not depict real events; they were manipulated. This video of people shouting profanity at Biden is not real.

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President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's reserve, sources say.

The Biden administration in November announced the release of 50 million barrels from the strategic reserve in coordination with other countries. The Biden administration in November announced the release of 50 million barrels from the strategic reserve in coordination with other countries. The duration of the release hasn't been finalized but could last for several months. The duration of the release hasn't been finalized but could last for several months. The announcement could come as soon as Thursday, when the White House says Biden is planning to deliver remarks on his administration's plans to combat rising gas prices. The announcement could come as soon as Thursday, when the White House says Biden is planning to deliver remarks on his administration's plans to combat rising gas prices.

President Biden plans to tap into the US oil reserves as the cost of fuel continues to soar and Americans feel the squeeze of inflation.

The release of reserves could last months, sources told the AP. The Biden administration agreed to release 50 million barrels from the reserve in November, then agreed to release another 30 million at the start of the Ukraine war in coordination with other nations. Biden may announce as soon as Thursday that he will order the daily release of up to 1 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve in an effort to counter high energy prices, sources told the Associated Press. President Joe Biden plans to tap into the US oil reserves as the cost of fuel continues to soar and Americans feel the squeeze of inflation hitting a 40-year high.