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Biden to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11
The drawdown delays only by around five months an agreement with the Taliban by former president Donald Trump to withdraw all troops, amid a growing consensus...
Meanwhile, although the latest World Economic Outlook presents a much more upbeat forecast for global growth, vaccine hesitancy in Europe is a risk.
Trump used his moment in the nuptial limelight to blast President Joe Biden on several issues including the US-Mexico border, China and Iran.
His administration faces mounting challenges from immigration to gun control and the still-worrying coronavirus pandemic.
Tighter gun control is overwhelmingly popular with Americans -- but Republicans have long stood against what some view as any infringement on their right to bear arms.
Rather than trying to ram through comprehensive immigration reform similar to the massive effort that failed in 2013 - and during today's heightened tensions along the US-Mexico border - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opted for a different strategy.
US President Biden's recent comments about the Russian president sparked the biggest crisis between Russia and the United States in years.
Russia called back its ambassador over comments made by US President Joe Biden who likened his Russian counterpart to a "killer".
The Taliban insurgents have largely stuck to a promise not to attack US or other foreign troops since the agreement was struck in February last year, but they say the date to end America's longest war is inflexible.
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Japan on their first overseas trip, aimed at rallying military alliances as a bulwark against China and cementing a united front against the nuclear-armed North.
The US president raised hope that the country hardest hit by the global pandemic could overcome the virus if Americans worked together and followed health experts' guidelines on wearing masks and getting vaccinated.
In a flurry of diplomacy, Japan announced that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will become the first foreign leader to see Biden in person, a sign of the primacy the new US leader attaches to allies.
And despite overwhelming hostility to the White House from Republicans in Congress, Biden's pledge to reunite a country left dazed by the Donald Trump era is also showing the first green shoots.
Biden's move comes as several Republican-controlled state legislatures push to curtail voting access in response to Donald Trump's election loss and his repeated false claims of election fraud.
Negotiations in the Senate had frozen the chamber's action for more than 10 hours on Friday, before the Democrats reached a compromise with moderate Senator Joe Manchin, who had balked at the scale of the benefits.
This number peaked at nearly 300,000 new cases on January 8 in the country hardest hit by the pandemic, with more than half a million fatalities.
Biden was forced to abandon his push to make Neera Tanden the White House budget director after centrists on both sides of the political aisle made it clear they would not support her.
Citing two administration officials, CNN wrote that the United States will coordinate with the European Union to determine what the sanctions will entail and their exact timing.
Amazon does not officially oppose unions but it has campaigned against efforts by staff at the warehouse in Bessemer to unionize.