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China will face repercussions for human rights abuses, says Joe Biden

"The US must speak up on human rights abuses and that there will be repercussions for China, and (Xi Jinping) knows that," Biden said during CNN town hall

US: Prez Joe Biden reframes goal on reopening of elementary schools

"I said open a majority of schools in K through eighth grade, because they're the easiest to open, the most needed to be open in terms of the impact on children and families," Biden said

Pentagon rethinking military positioning around the world, focus on China

The review is part of the administration's effort to chart a path for a military still caught in decades-old Mideast conflicts, facing flat or declining budgets, and grappling with internal problems

Ready to assist US states hit by severe winter storm, Biden tells Governors

Below-freezing temperatures in the central and southern regions of the United States has left millions of homes without power as more frigid weather is expected to last through the week

Biden faces pressure as US sets new course on immigration

After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States. It seems the new president wants to help migrants, Osorio said as he got ready to check in to a cheap hotel in downtown Tijuana before heading to the US. They're saying he is going to help, but I don't know for sure how much is true or not. The 63-year-old is among thousands of people who have come to the U.S.-Mexico border with the hope they will be able to ask for asylum and make their way into the US now that former President Donald Trump is no longer in office. While Biden has taken some major steps in his first weeks in office to reverse Trump's hardline immigration policies, his administration hasn't lifted some of the most significant barriers to asylum-seekers. In fact, it's discouraging people from coming to the country, hoping to avoid what happened under both Trump and former ..

Pronita Gupta named special assistant to Prez Biden for Labor and Workers

During the second term of the Obama Administration, Gupta was Deputy Director, Women''s Bureau at the US Department of Labor from April 2014 to January 2017

Best of BS Opinion: Fragile democracy, IBC set to resume, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Joe Biden faces pressure as US sets new course on immigration

After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States. It seems the new president wants to help migrants, Osorio said as he got ready to check in to a cheap hotel in downtown Tijuana before heading to the U.S. They're saying he is going to help, but I don't know for sure how much is true or not. The 63-year-old is among thousands of people who have come to the U.S.-Mexico border with the hope they will be able to ask for asylum and make their way into the U.S. now that former President Donald Trump is no longer in office. While Biden has taken some major steps in his first weeks in office to reverse Trump's hardline immigration policies, his administration hasn't lifted some of the most significant barriers to asylum-seekers. In fact, it's discouraging people from coming to the country, hoping to avoid what happened under both Trump and former

US: Joe Biden reverses Trump's designation of Houthis as terrorists

Two weeks before stepping down, President Trump, designated Houthis as a terrorist group, disregarding the fact such a decision could lead to the death of thousands of starving Yemenis

Impeachment isn't the final word on Capitol riot for Donald Trump

Now a private citizen, Trump is stripped of his protection from legal liability that the presidency gave him

US President calls for tougher gun laws on Parkland shooting anniversary

Biden said Americans mourned with the families of Parkland victims, as well as "all those who have lost loved ones to gun violence"

G7: Joe Biden to speak at virtual meeting of world's major economies

Biden will emphasize the need for global coordination on vaccine production, distribution and supplies, as well as global efforts to prepare for and protect against future pandemics

'Democracy is fragile', Joe Biden says after Donald Trump's acquittal

"While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute," Biden said after the Senate voted 57-43 to acquit Trump in his second impeachment trial

Impeachment: Biden White House seeks to turn page on Donald Trump

Biden made a point of not watching the trial live, choosing to comment only briefly on the searing images of the riot that gripped the nation

Mexico's president welcomes US cancellation of border wall construction

Instead of building walls, said Lopez Obrador, the United States should join his government's initiative of "cooperation for development"

US Deputy Press Secy TJ Ducklo resigns after threatening reporter

Ducklo had been put on a weeklong suspension without pay on Friday after a report surfaced in Vanity Fair outlining his sexist threats against a female Politico journalist

White House spokesman suspended for a week for 'threatening reporter'

A White House spokesman, T.J. Ducklo, has been suspended for a week without pay after he allegedly threatened to "destroy" a female reporter who was asking questions about his private life.

Pompeo calls on Biden administration to confront China 'head-on' like Trump

Former US Secretary of State Pompeo said that US President Joe Biden's administration has to confront China 'head-on' in the same way the previous Donald Trump-led administration had done

Biden releases guidelines for safely reopening schools in US amid Covid-19

US President Joe Biden on Friday released guidelines for safely reopening of schools amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Biden administration to allow 25,000 asylum-seekers in Mexico into US

The Biden administration on Friday announced plans for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings to be allowed into the United States