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The crisis sparked by the incursion of a Chinese spy balloon in US airspace is set to weigh heavily on the president’s most important speech of the year

The White House said the guests were invited ‘because they personify issues or themes to be addressed by the president’ or they embody the administration’s policies

On Tuesday night, the president of the US will stand before a joint session of Congress for the first time since the midterm elections. Look for new faces and fresh political dynamics, coupled with attention to some old problems brought back into painful focus by recent events

Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said he lodged a formal complaint over the ‘US attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force’

The president was expected to devote much of his speech to highlighting his efforts over the past two years to create jobs, fight inflation and improve the nation’s infrastructure

Separate special counsels are investigating the documents found in the possession of the former and incumbent president

The president believes the policies adopted under his watch can fill the US with new factories and protect against climate change

States with early contests play a major role in determining the nominee

Beijing responded that it reserved the right to ‘take further actions’ and criticized Washington for ‘an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice’

Hundreds of party leaders from around the country interrupted him with cries of “Four more years! Four more years!”

China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite US suspicion it was spying

The discovery has further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington

A senior defense official said it has ‘limited’ value in terms of providing China intelligence it couldn’t already collect by other means

‘We should not delay. And we will not be denied,’ Kamala Harris said to applause in Memphis, Tennessee. ‘It is non-negotiable’

It isn’t clear yet what the investigators are looking for by taking custody of the documents from his time as vice president and his decades in the Senate

‘In our politics and in our lives, we too often see each other as opponents and not competitors,’ the president said

Biden has resisted direct negotiations over raising the nation’s legal debt ceiling, warning against potentially throwing the economy into chaos

The president’s personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, said the Justice Department had initiated the new action ‘without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate’

Lawyers for the mining company and the US government told a judge during a Jan. 5 hearing the project is critical to meeting the growing demand for lithium to make electric vehicle batteries

The discovery of the documents at the office blocks away from the US Capitol led to a search of the president’s homes, including his residence in Wilmington, Delaware

Democratic leaders in the state have said that the move will give the state an increased voice in national politics

The vice president will be joined by former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a senior adviser to the president for public engagement, and Mitch Landrieu, a White House senior advisor

The years-long modernization of the project started in 2013 but stalled as Trump battled with Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer over funding

The president came to familiar terrain to promote his 2021 infrastructure law, a bipartisan win that is just now ramping up the spending on major projects

The US plans to borrow $932 billion during the January-to-March quarter

The move would formally restructure the federal coronavirus response to treat the virus as an endemic threat to public health

A Justice Department special counsel is investigating the former president over his role in working with allies to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election