Joe Biden will turn 81 on Monday with the traditional pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House, but don’t expect him to mention the issue that has U.S. voters in a flap. His birthday will turn an unwelcome spotlight on the fact that the Democrat is the oldest president in American history – … Read more
A judge on Monday set a March 4, 2024, trial date for Donald Trump in the federal case in Washington charging the former president with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, rejecting a defense request to push back the case by years. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan rebuffed claims by Trump’s attorneys … Read more
Talks to avoid a US debt default were on a knife edge Saturday as President Joe Biden warned he would not accept “extreme” Republican demands but said he remained optimistic. “I still believe we’ll be able to avoid a default and we’ll get something decent done,” he told reporters at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, … Read more
US Republicans voted Wednesday to raise the national borrowing limit, but only in conjunction with drastic cuts, as they sought a showdown with President Joe Biden over “excessive” spending with a potentially ruinous credit default looming. The government is expecting to hit the debt ceiling within weeks, raising the possibility of the world’s largest economy … Read more
Sen. Joe Manchin announced Friday that he would oppose the nomination of Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, imperilling her prospects for confirmation in an evenly divided Senate. The announcement by Manchin, D-W.Va., underscored the fragility of the ambitions for the new Democratic majority in the Senate … Read more
It ain’t over till the overweight person stops singing. But as far as the American election rulebook goes, Caucasian Joe Biden of the Democratic Party is set to be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States with African American-Indian American Kamala Harris as vice-president. Attempts to use that election rulebook – or … Read more
By Alexander Burns For several years, it has been the stuff of his opponents’ nightmares: that President Donald Trump, facing the prospect of defeat in the 2020 election, would declare by presidential edict that the vote had been delayed or canceled. Never mind that no president has that power, that the timing of federal elections … Read more