
Biden seeks to show stability in bid to avert banking chaos
Biden’s ability to avert a contagion among financial institutions will test his contention that his administration represents competence and stability

Biden’s ability to avert a contagion among financial institutions will test his contention that his administration represents competence and stability

The order also seeks to promote more secure firearms storage and ensure US law enforcement agencies get the most from last summer’s bipartisan gun control law

The first federal capital case tried under President Joe Biden ended with a divided jury, which means that the life of the Islamic extremist Sayfullo Saipov was spared

The president met with the leaders of Australia and the United Kingdom to discuss an 18-month-old nuclear partnership between the three countries

Officials will focus on efforts to legally liquidate the property of Russian oligarchs and expand financial penalties on those who facilitate the evasion of sanctions

The US government used a program called humanitarian parole to admit thousands of Ukrainians into the country

The Pentagon is asking Congress for $842 billion in the 2024 budget year. It’s the largest request since the peak of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the mid-2000s

The extra money will be used, in part, to replenish Britain’s ammunition stocks, depleted from supplying Ukraine in its defense against Russia

What’s happening is eerily reminiscent of the financial meltdown that began with the bursting of the housing bubble 15 years ago. Yet the initial pace this time around seems even faster

The decision announced on Monday is one of the president’s most consequential climate choices and is likely to draw condemnation from environmentalists

New proposals by the Biden administration would update racial and ethnic classifications for the first time since 1997

The president’s words of assurance come after the swift and stunning collapse of two banks prompted fears of a broader upheaval

The Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and FDIC said Sunday that all Silicon Valley Bank clients will be protected

Regulators prepare to announce a final decision on the Willow project, a controversial oil drilling plan pushed by ConocoPhillips in the petroleum reserve

Attempts by the ‘hawks’ to brand drug cartels as terrorist groups and launch military operations on Mexican soil contrast with the intensification of bilateral meetings between the two governments to tackle the fentanyl crisis

The US struggles to retain its supremacy, China catches up and overtakes the leader in many areas while the EU is falling behind

Republicans and Democrats have been dancing around each other about the need to raise the government’s legal borrowing authority

The revelations have bolstered critics who say Fox News Channel should be considered a propaganda network rather than a news outlet

Boeing is modifying two of its 747-800 aircraft that will use the Air Force One call sign when the president is aboard

People with ties to Russian intelligence are planning to stage protests in hopes of toppling Moldova’s new pro-Western government, US officials say

A Senate vote to overturn a district crime law has kicked a political hornet’s nest in the US over self-determination, racial discrimination and crime

Canada should “stop sensationalizing and hyping the matter and stop attacks and smears on China,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said

As many as 20,000 Ukrainians who were granted permission to remain in the US for one year are facing their humanitarian parole expiring on April 23

Biden and von der Leyen are expected to agree to open negotiations about the use of European minerals critical in the production of electric vehicle batteries

A key point on the agenda will be modernizing the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which monitors the skies above the continent

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary

Here are the highlights of the president’s plan. Many of the key proposals are designed to draw sharp contrasts with Republicans