President Joe Biden signed a bill that makes Juneteenth a federal holiday, with plans for the government workforce to observe the new holiday on Friday.
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Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget plan, released on Friday, reverses a policy of his predecessor in that increases, rather than decreases, the federal outlay for the arts and public broadcasting.
For four years, President Donald Trump’s White House proposed federal budgets that zeroed out funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. That never happened, as Congress sets appropriations, and the agencies
President Joe Biden signed a bill that makes Juneteenth a federal holiday, with plans for the government workforce to observe the new holiday on Friday.
Meghan McCain and Whoopi Goldberg aren’t on the same page often, but things were escalated to another level on the June 17 episode of The View. The ladies were discussing a recent incident involving Joe Biden and a reporter, and things got heated. The co-hosts were talking over each other, with Meghan interrupting Whoopi as she tried to put in her two cents about the situation. It got so bad that Whoopi even cut the conversation short and cut to commercial as the fight escalated.
Liz Truss and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, both sides have agreed to halt retaliatory tariffs for five years. The tariffs have led to whisky exports to the US falling by more than a third, amounting to more than £600 million in lost sales, since the 25 per cent tariff was imposed in October 2019.
Joe Biden, 78, made a minor snafu when speaking at the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday, June 15. The president was delivering a speech at the podium when, on accident, he briefly referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as former U.S. President Donald Trump. “I caught part of President Trum…uh, Putin’s press conference,” Biden said. Video of Biden’s gaffe was shared by users on Twitter, which you can see below.
President Joe Biden finished up his post-Vladimir Putin summit press conference with a flash of visible irritation at a question posed by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
President Joe Biden will name Lina Khan the next chair of the Federal Trade Commission, just hours after she won Senate confirmation for a vacancy on the commission.
Queen Elizabeth hosted US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden for tea at Windsor Castle following the conclusion of the G7 summit. President Biden and Dr Jill Biden received a warm welcome at the castle along with a Guard of Honor formed of the Queen's Company First Battalion Grenadier Guards who gave the First Couple a royal salute.
Afternoon tea with the Americans. Queen Elizabeth II met with President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden on Sunday, June 13, at Windsor Castle in England.
Queen Elizabeth, President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden are all meeting!
Joe Biden, offering a bit of a preview of their summit on Wednesday, said that he agreed with Vladimir Putin that U.S.-Russian relations were at a “low point.”
President Joe Biden will sign legislation that will designate Pulse nightclub — the site of one of the country's deadliest mass shootings in history — as a national memorial, according to a White House statement published Saturday. Saturday marks five years since49 people were killed and multiple others were wounded at the LGBTQ+ nightclub in Orlando, Florida while celebrating a «Latin Night.» The FBI determined that the gunman — who was killed by police after the attack — had been motivated
President Joe Biden and Jill Biden made their way across the pond.The president and first lady met Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family during a reception at The Eden Project in England, at the G7 Summit on Friday. Prince Charles, Camila, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and Kate Middleton were also in attendance.
US President instructed his senior diplomat in London to deliver an official dressing down of UK’s Brexit Minister Lord Frost in a rare diplomatic move between allies. Yael Lempert, a senior official at the US Embassy in London, reportedly told Brexit chief Lord Frost that the UK government was “inflaming” tensions in Northern Ireland by disregarding the customs protocol agreed with the EU.
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US President flew into the UK on Wednesday night for his first overseas visit since entering the White House, Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned that the president harbours “very deep” concerns over the Brexit border dispute in Northern Ireland.
Joe Biden was still in good spirits after a pesky swarm of cicadas surrounded him in Washington D.C. on June 9. The president was preparing to embark on his first trip abroad as president, and the cicadas were swarming as he chatted outside before getting on Air Force 1. At one point, President Biden even swatted away a cicada that landed on his neck! He kept a smile on his face, though, and continued his conversations throughout the morning.
President Joe Biden has rescinded Donald Trump executive orders that would have effectively shut down the popular TikTok and WeChat apps in the U.S.