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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

Separate special counsels are investigating the documents found in the possession of the former and incumbent president

The president believes the policies adopted under his watch can fill the US with new factories and protect against climate change

States with early contests play a major role in determining the nominee

Beijing responded that it reserved the right to ‘take further actions’ and criticized Washington for ‘an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice’

Hundreds of party leaders from around the country interrupted him with cries of “Four more years! Four more years!”

China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite US suspicion it was spying

The discovery has further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington

A senior defense official said it has ‘limited’ value in terms of providing China intelligence it couldn’t already collect by other means

‘We should not delay. And we will not be denied,’ Kamala Harris said to applause in Memphis, Tennessee. ‘It is non-negotiable’

It isn’t clear yet what the investigators are looking for by taking custody of the documents from his time as vice president and his decades in the Senate

‘In our politics and in our lives, we too often see each other as opponents and not competitors,’ the president said

Biden has resisted direct negotiations over raising the nation’s legal debt ceiling, warning against potentially throwing the economy into chaos