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Biden: Infrastructure bill will ease economy woes, just wait

November 10, 2021 at 8:37 p.m.

BALTIMORE (AP) — President Joe Biden touted his $1 trillion infrastructure plan Wednesday as an eventual fix for the nation's inflation and supply chain woes — if Americans just have...

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Biden cites ‘overwhelming obligations’ of US on climate

November 1, 2021 at 1:51 p.m.

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In a markedly more humble tone for a U.S. leader, President Joe Biden acknowledged at a U.N. summit Monday that the United States and other energy-gulping...

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US, EU reach agreement to settle rift over Trump-era tariffs

October 30, 2021 at 8:54 p.m.

The U.S. and European Union have reached an agreement to settle their diplomatic rift over Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs, the White House announced Saturday, as President Joe Biden is...

Biden: Pope told me that I should “keep receiving Communion”

October 29, 2021 at 2:38 p.m.

Face to face at the Vatican, President Joe Biden held extended and highly personal talks with Pope Francis on Friday and came away saying the pontiff told him he was...

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EXPLAINER: What抖阴ap a “wealth tax” and how would it work?

October 25, 2021 at 11:26 p.m.

To help pay for his big economic and social agenda, President Joe Biden is looking to go where the big money is: billionaires.

President Joe Biden delivers an update on the COVID-19 response and vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House targeting economic risks from climate change

October 15, 2021 at 9:22 a.m.

The Biden administration is taking steps to address the economic risks from climate change, issuing a 40-page report Friday on government-wide plans to protect the financial, insurance and housing markets...

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Biden pledges “relentless diplomacy” on global challenges

September 21, 2021 at 12:39 p.m.

President Joe Biden summoned the world’s nations to forcefully address the festering global issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses in his first address before the...

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Biden faces limits of $1.9 trillion in COVID aid as some states resist

September 17, 2021 at 10:43 a.m.

President Joe Biden entered the White House promising to stop the twin health and economic crises caused by COVID-19, but $1.9 trillion and countless initiatives later he’s confronting the limits...

FILE – This Jan. 28, 2021, file photo shows a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak is seen in San Antonio. President Joe Biden has proposed more than $3 trillion worth of revenue increases, primarily through higher taxes for corporations and the country’s richest households as well as greater IRS enforcement that would target the wealthy. But key lawmakers voiced doubts this week about the size and possible impacts on the economy as congressional committees weighed the measures and a wide array of business groups sifted through the details to highlight what they oppose. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

White House, Democrats tangle over Biden bid to raise taxes

September 11, 2021 at 11:57 a.m.

President Joe Biden has a simple message for fellow Democrats about his plan to raise taxes to remake large swaths of the American economy: look beyond the bottom line.

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Joe Biden walks storm-ravaged Louisiana: “I know you’re hurting”

September 3, 2021 at 5:58 p.m.

LAPLACE, La. -- Giant trees knocked sideways. Homes boarded up with plywood. Off-kilter street signs.

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