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Biden To Announce Plans To Donate 500 Million Pfizer Vaccines To Countries In Need

9:32pm June 09, 2021

by Will Stone

On the first European trip of his presidency, Biden will announce a major U.S. contribution to the global vaccine effort — part of an effort to end COVID-19 "everywhere."

Trillions of cicadas are emerging in the U.S. Scientists say Brood X is one of the biggest for these bugs, which come out only once every 17 years.

A Plane Carrying Biden's Press Corps Was About To Take Off. Then The Cicadas Swarmed

11:58am June 09, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

A plane carrying dozens of journalists abroad to follow President Biden's trip to Europe was delayed several hours due to cicadas that filled the plane's engine.

Biden is heading out on his first trip abroad â as president â but he's met most of the world leaders he will talk with in Europe before, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Biden Heads To Europe To Convince Allies The United States Has Their Backs

6:28am June 09, 2021

by Franco Ordoñez

Biden wants to rebuild relations with allies, but some of his old friends in Europe have grown weary after the last four years.

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President Joe Biden speaks during the National Memorial Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery Monday. His budget proposal drops a decades-long ban on public funding for abortion.

Biden's Budget Proposal Reverses A Decades-Long Ban On Abortion Funding

1:51pm May 31, 2021

by Sarah McCammon

Biden's budget follows through on a campaign promise to overturn the Hyde Amendment, a longstanding ban on federal funding for most abortions. It's not clear the change will be approved by Congress.

Shalanda Young, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, says low interest rates mean the timing is right for government investment in social programs.

Politics & Government

Biden Proposes A Huge Hike In Government Spending In A $6 Trillion Budget

4:28pm May 28, 2021

by Asma Khalid

The president's budget details his ambitious (and costly) plans to invest in infrastructure and the social safety net — the likes of which the country hasn't seen in decades.

White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre arrives for the press briefing Wednesday. "I believe being behind this podium, being in this room, being in this building, is not about one person," she said of the historic nature of her tur

Politics & Government

Karine Jean-Pierre Is The 1st Black Woman In Decades To Brief White House Press

3:25pm May 26, 2021

by Ayesha Rascoe

Karine Jean-Pierre is the first Black spokeswoman to take questions from the White House podium since the 1990s.

President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will have a summit next month in Geneva. But it's not their first face-to-face meeting. Here, Putin greets Biden, then vice president, in March 2011 in Moscow.

Biden And Putin Are Going To Meet In Geneva On June 16

5:57pm May 25, 2021

by Scott Detrow

President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet face-to-face in Switzerland next month. The agenda will include nuclear arms control, climate change and Russia's election meddling.

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Gayle Smith told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on May 12: "There is no question but that we need a grand plan and the United States needs to be at the forefront of that," she said.

Biden Wants To Share COVID Vaccines Globally. Here's The Activist Helping Him

11:03pm May 18, 2021

by Tamara Keith

When the 2014 Ebola outbreak was spiraling out of control, Gayle Smith worked on the team that devised the Obama administration's response.

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President Joe Biden speaks to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi watch.

Biden Tells Congress His Administration Is 'Delivering Real Results'

11:30pm April 28, 2021

by Alana Wise

"After just 100 days, I can report to the nation: America is on the move again," President Biden said in his remarks to lawmakers.

Juan Gonzalez, shown here during a meeting last month at the White House, recently returned from a trip to Mexico and Guatemala. He's the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere.

'Predatory Elite' Also Bear The Blame For Migrant Crisis, NSC's Juan Gonzalez Says

1:12pm March 26, 2021

by Bill Chappell

"Migration is essentially a social release valve for migrants," says Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere.

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