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US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with governors to discuss ongoing efforts to strengthen wildfire prevention, preparedness and response efforts, and hear firsthand ab...

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US President Joe Biden holds a note card that has the number of COVID-19-related American deaths as speaks about COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers in the East Room ...

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US President Joe Biden holds a mask as he responds to a question as he arrives at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pa. Biden is in the area to visit the Lehigh Val...

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US President Joe Biden finishes leaves after speaking during a visits to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in McLean, Va.. This is Biden's first visit to an agenc...

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US President Joe Biden, surrounded by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, speaks after signing H.R. 1652, the VOCA Fix to Sustain the Crime Victims Fund Act of 2021, in the East Room ...

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US President Joe Biden interacts with members of the audience during a commercial break for a CNN town hall at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati.

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US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Jordan's King Abdullah II, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

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US Vice President Kamala Harris listens as US President Joe Biden speaks during an event to mark the start of monthly Child Tax Credit relief payments, in the South Court Auditoriu...

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US President Joe Biden meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

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US President Joe Biden joins Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and fellow Democrats at the Capitol in Washington to discuss the latest progress on his infrastructure ag...

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US President Joe Biden, center, speaks during a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors and mayors and cabinet officials in the Roosevelt room of the White House in Washington...

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US President Joe Biden joins Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and fellow Democrats at the Capitol in Washington to discuss the latest progress on his infrastructure ag...

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US President Joe Biden looks up as he greets people after delivering a speech on voting rights at the National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia.

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US President Joe Biden speaks about the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

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President Joe Biden arrives to speak during an Independence Day celebration on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.

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US President Joe Biden speaks during an event to honor the 2020 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team at the White House, in Washington.

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US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit a memorial wall covered in flowers and photos of the missing after a condo tower collapsed in Surfside, Florida.

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US President Joe Biden, joined by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., talks in-between signing signs several bills during an event in the South Court Auditorium on the White Hous...

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US President Joe Biden greets members of the audience after speaking during a visit to a mobile COVID-19 vaccination unit at the Green Road Community Center in Raleigh, N.C.

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US President Joe Biden speaks about infrastructure negotiations outside the White House in Washington.

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Millions Of Americans At Risk Of Eviction As Congress Fails To Extend Ban

More than 3.6 million Americans are at risk of eviction, some in a matter of days, as nearly $47 billion in federal housing aid to the states during the pandemic has been slow to make it into the hands of renters

Jul 31, 2021

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First Evacuation Flight Brings 221 Afghans, Many Kids, To US

Congress on Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would allow an additional 8,000 visas and $500 million in funding for the Afghan visa program

Jul 31, 2021

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Biden Administration Imposes Fresh Sanctions On Cuba

Following this month's protests on the island, the Biden administration has announced new sanctions against Cuba's national-revolutionary police and two top officials

Jul 31, 2021

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Joe Biden's Push To Vaccinate Federal Employees Raises Uneasy Questions

To stop the spread of the coronavirus, millions of federal employees must provide confirmation of receiving a coronavirus vaccine or adhere to regular testing, social distance, masking, and travel restrictions.

Jul 30, 2021

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US To Study Options To Provide Internet Access To Cubans

In Cuba, Internet access is a contentious topic. On social media in the days leading up to the latest events, there were calls for anti-government demonstrations.

Jul 30, 2021

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In First Visit To Intel Agency, Biden Warns Of Cyber Conflict

Biden also mentioned Russia and China as growing threats to American national security and noted the growing wave of cyberattacks.

Jul 28, 2021

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Biden Says US Combat Mission In Iraq To Conclude By Year End

The announcement comes on the heels of Biden's decision to withdraw fully from Afghanistan nearly 20 years after the U.S. launched that war in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Jul 27, 2021

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US Carried Out Airstrikes In Afghanistan, Says Pentagon

Taliban with their forces is now controlling more than 400 district centres, which is more than half of Afghanistan.

Jul 23, 2021

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Afghan Crisis: Three Rockets Hit Near Presidential Palace Ahead Of Ghani Address

There were no injuries recorded and the rockets landed outside the heavily fortified palace grounds

Jul 20, 2021

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US Capitol Riots: Florida Man Who Breached Senate Chamber, First To Face Sentencing For Felony

Prosecutors want Paul Allard Hodgkins to serve 18 months behind bars, saying in a recent filing that he, 'like each rioter, contributed to the collective threat to democracy'

Jul 19, 2021

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Foreign Hand: Does Your Politics Shout?

'One of the things that Trump never did was whisper,' says a language expert. Well, Biden is not coming up short on that front. Talk about intimacy in politics.

Jul 14, 2021

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Livin’ in Tulsa Time

It’s been a century since local Whites rained mass destruction on Black Tulsans—an event never much talked about. President Biden’s visit to the Oklahama town changes that.

Jun 03, 2021

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The 'Former Guy'? He’s Splat

Joe Biden eases into the Oval Office with a well-manicured, classic aesthetic and work ethic…the US is back in WHO, the Paris Accord, diplomacy limps back, but there’s a lot to undo.

Feb 24, 2021

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The NEWS

In case you missed it: News and newsmakers from India over the past week

Feb 03, 2021

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Joe Catches The Beijing Pings

The one tough foreign policy challenge staring President Biden in the eye is to counter China’s overweening ambition under Xi Jinping

Jan 28, 2021

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A Dirty Phalanx

The rampage at the heart of American democracy is a final, horrifying statement of all that Trump has stood for

Jan 14, 2021

| Seema Guha
‘A Decrepit Democratic Machine’

‘Democratic’, in America, can often mean just one party. But even the judges called the Trump team’s howls of fraud a “Frankenstein’s monster”. This transition has hurt the system.

Nov 25, 2020

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Red Alert: Trumpism

Yes, decency and idealism won this round. Yet, the toxicity in White America that Trump tapped is alive and well. Biden-Harris will have to dig deep to defuse an explosive device made of systemic injustice.

Nov 12, 2020

| Raza Rumi
Valley In Soft Focus

Biden will tread lightly on the rights issue in Kashmir, but that might be a blemish on his foreign policy agenda

Nov 12, 2020

| Michael Kugelman
Rites Of Spring, Time To Cure

The Biden-Harris win sends waves of joy through the US and the world. In a divided country, their immediate job is to repair, rejevunate and redirect.

Nov 12, 2020

| Seema Guha