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Biden and Netanyahu face rough early test of relationship
President Joe Biden's efforts to persuade Benjamin Netanyahu to halt military strikes against Hamas in Gaza are plunging the two leaders into a difficult early test of the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
Joe Biden steps up pressure on Israel to end violence, urges “significant de-escalation”
President Joe Biden stepped up the pressure on Israel to end 10 days of violent fighting with Palestinians, making clear in a call Wednesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that...
Climate Summit Day 2 message: Invest big for big payoff
The White House brought out the billionaires, the CEOs and the union executives Friday to help sell President Joe Biden鈥檚 climate-friendly transformation of the U.S. economy at his virtual summit...
At “moment of peril,” Biden opens global summit on climate
President Joe Biden convened leaders of the world's most powerful countries on Thursday to try to spur global efforts against climate change, drawing commitments from Chinese President Xi Jinping and...
Biden meets Japan鈥檚 leader to boost China-facing alliances
President Joe Biden is welcoming Japan’s prime minister to the White House on Friday in his first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader, a choice that reflects Biden's emphasis on...
U.S. to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11
President Joe Biden will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America that were coordinated from that country, several U.S....
Biden affirms support for Ukraine in first call to leader
President Joe Biden underscored U.S. support for Ukraine on Friday in his first call to that country's leader following reports of Russian troop movements on its eastern border.
U.S. sanctions Russian officials over nerve-agent attack on Alexei Navalny
The Biden administration sanctioned seven mid- and senior-level Russian officials on Tuesday, along with more than a dozen businesses and other entities, over a nearly fatal nerve-agent attack on opposition...
U.S. needs to brace itself for more deadly storms, experts say
Deadly weather will be hitting the U.S. more often, and America had better get better at dealing with it, experts said as Texas and other states battled winter storms that...