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Biden says Hurricane Ida likely to be immense, promises full federal aid

US President Joe Biden has warned that Hurricane Ida will be a major life-threatening storm and has promised all the necessary federal assistance to the states that will be affected

US in final phase of evacuations from Kabul; Taliban seize 3 airport gates

"The whole airport is slowly coming under the control of the Taliban," Enhamullah Samangani, a member of the group's Cultural Commission, said by telephone

Afghan crisis: US drone strikes vehicle with 'bombers' on way to airport

US President warns second Kabul airport terror attack likely in hours

President Biden to pay respects to US troops killed in Afghanistan

President Joe Biden is embarking on a solemn journey Sunday to honour and mourn the 13 US troops killed in the suicide attack near Kabul airport

Biden approves emergency in Mississippi as hurricane Ida approaches

Hurricane Ida is expected to strike the Louisiana coast west of New Orleans as a Category 4 storm on Sunday.

Another attack likely in Kabul, says Biden; pledges more strikes on IS

President Joe Biden vowed to keep up airstrikes against the Islamic extremist group whose suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed scores of Afghans and 13 American service members

Joe Biden in the 'loneliest job', a presidency driven by crisis

It's called the loneliest job in the world for a reason. Surrounded by everything a superpower can offer and watched by all, President Joe Biden wore the weight of a lonely man as he came to grips in recent days with the deadly end of the American effort in Afghanistan and tried to keep the focus on what, to him, is the bottom line. Ladies and gentlemen," he said as the death toll mounted in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, "it was time to end a 20-year war. The need for crisis-driven leadership comes to all presidents. Now, on several fronts at once, it has come to him, and fast. In the aftermath of the Kabul suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. troops and more than 170 Afghans, U.S. military forces are racing to get fellow citizens, aligned Afghans and themselves out of the country by Biden's stated deadline of Tuesday. Biden found himself in a real-time crisis that overrides the platitudes he offered when running for the office and in the early months of his presidency. America is

Best of BS Opinion: Ambition in a minefield, Schizophrenic BJP govt & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Saturday

Joe Biden: Sheep in sheep's clothing

Long ago, George Bush said he would smoke the terrorists out of their holes. In Kabul, the only thing that's been smoked out is Biden's true form

We will hunt you down, make you pay: Biden warns Kabul airport attackers

President Joe Biden has vowed to 'hunt' down the terrorists and make them 'pay' for the deadly attacks outside the Kabul airport in which 13 US service members were killed and 18 others wounded

Kabul airport attack kills 60 Afghans and 13 US troops; Biden vows revenge

The Islamic State group claims responsibility for the killings; the Taliban were not believed to have been involved in the attacks.

Google, Microsoft pledge billions in cybersecurity investments

The Biden administration has been urging the private sector to do its part to strengthen cybersecurity defences against those increasingly sophisticated attacks

Tech firms promise Joe Biden billions of dollars to bolster cybersecurity

Tech giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have promised US President Joe Biden to help him improve cybersecurity infrastructure in the wake of several high-profile hacking cases

Democracy promoter USA's ideals at risk from rise of far right in country

Democracy promotion-it was supposed to be a method by which the United States remade the world to look more like us

US Senate's company tax plan boosts penalty on sending profit abroad

The proposal is one legislative piece of a $3.5 trillion tax and spending package that Democrats are now crafting to implement the bulk of President Joe Biden's longer-term economic plans

Joe Biden to tackle cybersecurity with technology, finance leaders

President Joe Biden is meeting Wednesday with top executives from some of the country's leading technology companies and financial institutions

Trump says thousands of terrorists might have been airlifted out of Kabul

Trump has slammed Biden on his Afghan policy and expressed concerns that thousands of terrorists might have been flown out of Afghanistan as part of the evacuation process

Biden's rating drops below 50% for first time in 'summer of discontent'

US President Joe Biden's overall job-approval rating has dipped below 50% among adults for the first time in his early presidency, according to a new NBC News Poll.

Taliban have no self-doubt; they don't care if Afghanistan goes down

There is no meaningful evidence that the Taliban are feeling any existential crisis, much less that they care about making money or running an economy

Biden to decide on extending Aug 31 Afghanistan evacuation deadline

US president expected to take call on Tuesday, had said before evacuation was going to be "hard and painful" and much could still go wrong.