Business

Biden to speak to baby formula manufacturers about shortage

Editorial Bureau May 13, 2022

WASHINGTON — A baby formula shortage in the United States is driving parents to swap, sell and offer leftover supplies to each other, while President Joe Biden plans to speak with manufacturers and retailers Thursday about the plight facing families. The problem is the result of supply chain

USA

Biden marks 1M US COVID deaths, to co-host 2nd global summit

Editorial Bureau May 13, 2022

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will appeal for a renewed international commitment to attacking COVID-19 as he convenes a second virtual summit on the pandemic and marks 1 million deaths in the United States. “As a nation, we must not grow numb to such sorrow,” Biden said in a statement. “To heal, we must remember. […]

USA

Abortion adds to Biden’s all-but-impossible to-do list

Editorial Bureau May 7, 2022

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s list of impossible tasks keeps getting longer. Despite lofty promises he’s made, from the campaign trail through his first year in office, he has limited power to safeguard voting rights or expand the fight against climate change on his own. And now it’s become clear that Biden has no good […]

USA

Karine Jean-Pierre Is Named White House Press Secretary

Editorial Bureau May 7, 2022

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday selected Karine Jean-Pierre, the principal deputy press secretary, to replace Jen Psaki as the top White House spokeswoman, making her the first Black woman to hold one of the most high-profile jobs in American politics. Ms. Jean-Pierre, who worked on Mr. Biden’s campaign and has had a long career […]

Business

Biden to plug manufacturing initiative at Ohio metal company

Editorial Bureau May 7, 2022

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to announce on Friday that five major U.S. manufacturers have made commitments to boost their reliance on small and medium American firms for 3D printing. The White House said GE Aviation, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Siemens Energy have agreed to take part in the program, which Biden […]

USA

Democrats Plan a Bid to Codify Roe, but Lack the Votes to Succeed

Editorial Bureau May 6, 2022

WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, said Thursday that he planned to move on Wednesday to bring up a bill that would codify abortion rights into federal law, moving quickly in the wake of a leaked Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, despite clear evidence that the […]

Finance

Biden visits Lockheed plant as weapons stockpile strained

Editorial Bureau May 4, 2022

TROY, Ala. — President Joe Biden on Tuesday visited a Lockheed Martin plant that manufactures an antitank weapons system, aiming to herald the U.S.-made arms as a gamechanger for Ukraine’s stiff resistance to Russia’s invasion. But Biden’s visit to the Alabama factory line is also drawing attention to a growing concern as the war drags […]

USA

Biden blasts court’s abortion draft ruling

Editorial Bureau May 4, 2022

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden says the “basic fairness and the stability of our law demand” that the U.S. Supreme Court not overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. In a statement Tuesday, Biden said he would work to codify the right to abortion into federal law. Politico […]

USA

Biden reacts to leaked draft Supreme Court opinion on abortion

Editorial Bureau May 4, 2022

President Joe Biden weighed in Tuesday morning on the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion showing the panel’s conservative majority of justices is poised to overturn nearly 50 years of established abortion rights in America. “It concerns me a great deal that, after 50 years, we’re going to decide that a woman doesn’t have the right […]

USA

Biden meets with parents of American journalist abducted in Syria

Editorial Bureau May 3, 2022

The parents of Austin Tice, an American journalist and Marine Corps veteran abducted in Syria, have already been waiting almost a decade for their son to return home. After a public plea for support over the weekend, President Joe Biden wasted no time, saying on Monday he would meet with them “today.” White House press […]