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Biden slams Uganda anti-gay law, urges repeal

US President Joe Biden on Monday slammed Uganda's draconian new law against homosexuality as a grave human rights violation, and threatened to cut aid...

Market rises on US deal to lift debt ceiling

Stocks rose Monday on news that President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached a deal to lift the US debt ceiling...

Biden and McCarthy finalize US debt deal, confident it will pass

WASHINGTON, USA—President Joe Biden and Republican leader McCarthy said Sunday that a final bipartisan deal to raise the US debt ceiling—and avoid a cataclysmic...

Republicans, Biden reach debt ceiling deal

President Joe Biden and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy announced a deal Saturday to raise the debt ceiling, dragging the United States back from the...

Biden speaks with Republican leader McCarthy: source

US President Joe Biden and Republican congressional leader Kevin McCarthy spoke Saturday, a source familiar with the talks said, as the leaders tried to...

Race for US debt deal as talks go to the wire

Democrats and Republicans seemed within grasping distance Saturday of a deal to end the US debt ceiling standoff, with both sides playing hardball in...

Biden vows ‘no default’ on US debt even as lawmakers go on 10-day break

WASHINGTON, USA—President Joe Biden declared Thursday the United States would avoid a disastrous credit default even as lawmakers went on a 10-day break without...

Biden and McCarthy call debt talks ‘productive,’ but no deal

A top US Republican and President Joe Biden on Monday both said their first one-on-one talks in months to avert a calamitous debt default...

Biden ‘looks forward’ to meeting Zelensky in Hiroshima: White House

US President Joe Biden "looks forward" to meeting Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in Hiroshima on Sunday on the sidelines of a G7 summit in...

Biden says still optimistic US to avoid default

Talks to avoid a US debt default were on a knife edge Saturday as President Joe Biden warned he would not accept “extreme” Republican...

US’ Biden trims Asia-Pacific tour amid debt deal

WASHINGTON—Joe Biden and opposition Republican leaders on Tuesday offered hope of a deal that could avoid a catastrophic US debt default, although the president...

US announces plan to curb power plant emissions to combat climate crisis

WASHINGTON, USA—President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday announced sweeping plans to curb planet-warming emissions from the nation’s power stations, as part of the United...

Texas governor orders national guard to border ahead of rule change

The Republican governor of Texas on Monday ordered hundreds of National Guard soldiers to the US-Mexico border, in what he said was a bid...

Biden demands action after 8 killed in Texas

WASHINGTON—US President Joe Biden renewed his call Sunday for a national assault-weapons ban and other gun safety measures, a day after eight people were...
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