Joseph Biden

The first lady’s unabashed public expressions of support for Philadelphia’s teams – she grew up in suburban Willow Grove – are a rare kind of devotion.

‘Both our nations’ strong democracies have been tested of late ... very much tested,’ the US president said at the start of their Oval Office meeting

Roughly 1 in 6 voters for Democratic House candidates said they disapproved of the president’s job performance, according to AP VoteCast

Pence adviser Devin O’Malley said the Department of Justice completed “a thorough and unrestricted search of five hours”

The object was flying at about 40,000 feet and posed a “reasonable threat” to the safety of civilian flights

The search Friday was described as consensual and came after an extensive back-and-forth between Pence’s legal team and the agency

A legal fight over turning away immigrants at the border because of the coronavirus pandemic is about to become irrelevant

Republicans in the House chamber laughed in derision at the president’s off-the-cuff remark, which was not in his scripted speech

Democrats on the committee were frustrated that Southwest didn’t respond to warnings from its unions that it needed to improve its crew-scheduling system

The president sees a chance to use Social Security and Medicare to drive a wedge between GOP lawmakers and their base of older voters

The 419-0 action comes as lawmakers clamoring for information about the white balloon that flew over American skies were being briefed by U.S. officials in a classified session

The regime of Daniel Ortega made the decision suddenly without notifying relatives. It has declared them ‘stateless’ and ‘traitors to the homeland.’ EL PAÍS has confirmed they were on a flight to Washington DC

A fleet of balloons operates under the direction of the People’s Liberation Army and is used specifically for spying, the U.S. said

Mandatory spending on the programs accounted for about $2.1 trillion in fiscal 2022, which ended last June 30 – a sizable chunk of the nation’s $5.8 trillion federal budget

It was down nearly 28% from the 38.2 million people who saw the president’s address in 2022

She is second Black person whose portrait will hang in the senate chamber of the state Capitol

When similar devices passed over US territory during the Trump and Biden administrations, they were not immediately identified as Chinese surveillance balloons

Biden made calls for unity and tried to emphasize conciliation over conflict, seemingly impossible to sustain in such divided times

Even Democrats question whether he should run for reelection amid concerns about his age

Harm reduction advocates call for increasing availability of medication-assisted treatment and measures to prevent fatal overdoses – not ‘strong penalties’ to crack down on traffickers

The US president addressed Congress in an event marked by China, the Ukraine war, gun and police reform and calls for unity in defense of democracy

His speech before a politically divided Congress comes as the nation struggles to make sense of confounding cross-currents at home and abroad

The crisis sparked by the incursion of a Chinese spy balloon in US airspace is set to weigh heavily on the president’s most important speech of the year

The White House said the guests were invited ‘because they personify issues or themes to be addressed by the president’ or they embody the administration’s policies

On Tuesday night, the president of the US will stand before a joint session of Congress for the first time since the midterm elections. Look for new faces and fresh political dynamics, coupled with attention to some old problems brought back into painful focus by recent events

Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said he lodged a formal complaint over the ‘US attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force’

The president was expected to devote much of his speech to highlighting his efforts over the past two years to create jobs, fight inflation and improve the nation’s infrastructure