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After his eighth day in a New York City courthouse for his hush money trial, former U.S. president Donald Trump said he invited current President Joe Biden to a nationally-televised debate prior to the 2024 presidential election, claiming that he was ready “any time.” His comments came after Biden also said he would be “happy...

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill stopped by the White House press briefing room on Friday, after meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden. Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the ‘Star Wars’ franchise and was mentored by Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi in the film, told reporters he had dubbed Biden “Joebi-Wan Kenobi” in a play on...

U.S. President Joe Biden delivered remarks on Wednesday after signing a bipartisan supplemental foreign aid package on Wednesday. The $95-billion package included funding for, among other things, Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, but notably did not include any funding for border security. During his remarks, Biden thanked Congressional leadership for passing the bill and said...

U.S. President Joe Biden has signed a bill which could see TikTok banned by January if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, does not sell the social media company within nine months. Mackenzie Gray explains why American lawmakers pushed for this crackdown, how Canada could respond, and why some of TikTok’s users are not ready to...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Hamas to swiftly accept Israel’s latest and “extraordinarily generous” proposal for a Gaza truce to secure a release of hostages, at a special meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) held in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Monday. In Washington, D.C., White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told...

Israel fended off an attack from Iran last week and in the wake of that barrage, U.S. President Joe Biden urged Israel’s prime minister to take the win. Today, there were no angry statements or vows of further retaliation following a reported Israeli strike on Iran—and that, observers say, is a relief. Jackson Proskow has...

The United Nations (UN) Security Council convened emergency talks on Sunday after an unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel, where Secretary General Antonio Guterres emphasized the need for maximum restraint. The White House also said that U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately following the attack, reportedly urging Netanyahu not...

With Ramadan over, hopes for a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas have been dealt another blow after Israel killed three sons and four grandchildren of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. Jackson Proskow looks at how Gazans marked the end of Ramadan, and what U.S. President Joe Biden is again urging Israel and Hamas to...

Editor’s note: There is a typo in the name ‘Chief Stan Bird.’ We regret the error. Israel’s army says it is now fully prepared to launch a ground operation into Rafah, the only city in the Gaza Strip that Israel has not yet raided. With ongoing famine and increasing heat, just trying to survive in...

In light of Israel’s killing of seven World Central Kitchen members in the Gaza Strip, U.S. President Joe Biden is warning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that future support for Israel depends on what it does to end the suffering and protect civilians in Gaza. Jackson Proskow reports on the pressure piling on Netanyahu to...

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on Friday about the progress made thus far in removing debris following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. The president says two small channels have been cleared for essential ships. “The Army corps says by the end of April they’ll be able to open the...

On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced U.S. President Joe Biden would be visiting Baltimore on Friday, following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge there the week before. The bridge collapsed early last Tuesday, after a cargo ship lost power and control before crashing into a support column. Six people were...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given his highly anticipated testimony for the first time at the foreign interference inquiry. What Trudeau says he knew and when about allegations of Chinese meddling; what CSIS told him; and why he chose not to take action. The Bank of Canada is holding its key interest rate at five...

“We need to get a lot more care into Gaza,” U.S President Joe Biden said on Tuesday, after Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted a campaign event in Raleigh, N.C. The protesters shouted “hospitals in Gaza are being bombed,” to which Biden responded by calling the crowd to “be patient with them” and that “they have a point.”

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke briefly from the White House on Tuesday after a container ship struck a major bridge in Baltimore, collapsing a large section of the Francis Scott Key bridge into the river below early Tuesday morning. “At this time we have no other indication, no other reason to believe there was any...

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump clinched their parties’ presidential nominations Tuesday with decisive victories in a slate of low-profile primaries, setting up a general election rematch that many voters do not want.

Former special counsel Robert Hur was grilled by U.S. lawmakers at a hearing in Congress over his report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. As Jackson Proskow explains, both Democrats and Republicans are accusing Hur of being too partisan, but for different reasons.

Consumer prices in the U.S. picked up again last month to 3.2%, a sign that inflation continues to be a persistent challenge for the American central bank and for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign. Even though grocery prices were unchanged in February, pricier gas pushed up overall inflation. Anne Gaviola has the story in Business...

U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee leaders Mark Warner (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) spoke with host Margaret Brennan on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ about President Joe Biden’s plan to establish a port in Gaza to bring in humanitarian aid.

Following President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address on Thursday, U.S. Alabama Sen. Katie Britt delivered the Republicans’ response to the president’s remarks. “President Biden has failed,” Britt said. “We’ve become a nation in retreat.”