Joe Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden returns to the national stage Tuesday to elevate liberal concerns that President Donald Trump's agenda is threatening the health of Social Security. The 82-year-old Democrat has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the White House in January, which... Read More

WASHINGTON — More than four months after the 2024 election, many voters are feeling anxious and overwhelmed by the abrupt change of direction the country has experienced since President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, a new analysis finds.... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wrote on social media Sunday night that he no longer considers the pardons granted by his predecessor valid because they were signed with an autopen. He was referring to a wave of preemptive pardons former... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance got into a shouting match with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, a stunning turn of events that streamed live from the White House and around the world. At one... Read More

WASHINGTON — The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on Wednesday to scrutinize the Biden administration’s spending to advance its energy and environmental policies. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday in... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday evening that he’s revoking former President Joe Biden’s security clearance “immediately” and putting an end to the ex-president’s daily intelligence briefings. “There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to... Read More

WASHINGTON — In one of his last official acts on Monday, President Joe Biden released Leonard Peltier from prison, nearly 50 years after the indigenous activist was convicted of murdering two FBI officers. For decades, a number of human rights... Read More

WASHINGTON — In one of the first acts of his second term, President Donald Trump on Monday signed a national energy emergency declaration, granting himself broad new powers to foster new fossil fuel production. In the days leading up to... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has cancelled his planned trip to Rome to remain focused on directing the federal response to the catastrophic wildfires that have engulfed Los Angeles in recent days. Biden happened to be on the West Coast... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department on Tuesday released its long-awaited final rules for the Clean Electricity Investment and Production Tax Credits first announced when the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law in 2022. The rules for the tax breaks,... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday added several more cancers to its list of ailments presumed to be caused by in-service exposure to burn pits, lowering the burden of proof for ailing veterans to receive no-cost care... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday moved to ban medical debt from appearing on credit reports, but it’s still unknown whether the new rule will survive the transfer of power to President-elect Donald Trump 13 days from now. Tuesday’s... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden issued two memoranda on Monday intended to protect all Outer Continental Shelf areas off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and additional portions of the Bering Sea off of Alaska from... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to New Orleans Monday to attend an interfaith prayer service honoring the victims of the deadly New Year’s attack in the city’s fabled French Quarter. The Bidens... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law on Sunday, ensuring that millions of Americans will begin seeing larger monthly Social Security payments. “The bill I’m signing today is about a simple proposition: Americans who... Read More

WASHINGTON — He may have just two weeks left in the White House, but President Joe Biden is hardly coasting to a finish, particularly when it comes to his renewable energy goals. On Monday the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management... Read More

CINCINNATI — A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down net neutrality rules promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission, saying the agency lacked the authority to reinstate them. In rendering its decision, a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., are among the 20 individuals who will be honored at the White House Thursday as recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medal. President Joe Biden will present the medals... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday directed all federal agencies and departments to close on Thursday, Jan. 9, to honor the late President Jimmy Carter, who died in Georgia on Sunday at the age of 100. The executive order... Read More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is saying he will reverse his predecessor's policy that disfavors the death penalty as soon as he is inaugurated next month. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death penalties of 37 murderers convicted in... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden left the nation’s capital for a pre-New Year’s vacation in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands Thursday morning, but not before he engaged in a flurry of activity... Read More

WASHINGTON — It may have been raining outside, but the atmosphere was charged with positivity in the East Room on Wednesday as President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden hosted the first-ever White House Conference on Women’s Health Research.... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is threatening to veto a bipartisan bill that would create 66 new judgeships nationwide — addressing a longstanding shortage — but would also enable President-elect Donald Trump to nominate 22 of them once he assumes... Read More

WASHINGTON — First Lady Dr. Jill Biden delivered her final holiday message to the nation on Monday, saying it’s been the “honor of our lives” for her and the president to serve as the first family, and that she hopes... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that Israel and Lebanon's Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah have agreed to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire that will end fighting along the Israel-Lebanese border as of 4 a.m. local time. Speaking to reporters gathered in the... Read More

WASHINGTON — You could call it a day of holiday cheer. And yet at the White House on Monday, the air was heavy with a sense of sentimentality and maybe even a touch of sadness. This Thanksgiving and Christmas are... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump met for a “very cordial” two hours on Wednesday, setting the stage for what both promised would be a “smooth” transition after a sometimes bruising 2024 election cycle. The post-election meeting... Read More

WASHINGTON – It began when practically no one was looking. Well, to be fair, they were looking. But nobody saw the moment for what it was: the beginning of arguably the biggest comeback in U.S. political history. When Trump left... Read More

WASHINGTON — Speaking publicly for the first time since the election, President Joe Biden on Thursday promised a peaceful transfer of power back to President-elect Donald Trump and reassured supporters, “We’re going to be okay.” Biden appeared in the White... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Monday proposed new rules under the Affordable Care Act that would require insurers to cover over-the-counter birth control at no cost to patients. The rules, which are subject to a 60-day comment period, would... Read More