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Biden to deliver prime-time speech on battle for democracy in Philadelphia

President Joe Biden will deliver a prime-time address on the continued battle for the soul of the nation Thursday outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the White House announced Monday. Billed as a major address just over two months before the midterm elections, Biden, the White House said, will discuss how the nation's standing in the world and its democracy are at stake. He will talk about the progress we have made as a nation to protect our democracy, but how our rights and freedoms are still under attack," the White House said. "And he will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms, and fighting for our democracy. Biden has increasingly sought to portray the November elections as a choice for voters between ultra-MAGA Republicans a reference to former President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again campaign slogan and Democrats. He told supporters last week that they had to vote to literally save democracy once again and labeled some ...

Indian-origin Ajay Jain named Democratic Party Dy National Finance Chair

Eminent Indian-American and major fund raiser Ajay Jain Bhutoria has been named as Deputy National Finance Chair of the ruling Democratic party in the US

Biden calls Trump 'great MAGA king', vows to push Democrats, GOP contrasts

Biden has in recent days begun decrying "ultra-MAGA" Republicans -- a reference to Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan

US President Biden asks Senators to declare their stand on Democracy

US President Joe Biden gave a statement on changing the Senate's so-called filibuster rules to push the voting rights legislation

Joe Biden decries Trump backers' 'dagger at throat' of democracy

Biden's criticism was blistering of the defeated president whom he blamed for the assault that has fundamentally changed Congress

Protecting democracy a 'challenge of our time': Biden to world leaders

Biden announced an ambitious Presidential Initiative for Democratic Renewal, under which his administration is planning to provide up to $424.4 million on a global democratic renewal strategy.

'Can democracy still deliver?' Biden convenes global leaders at summit

Biden is convening global leaders to pledge strong new commitments to democracy, even as the US itself is facing some of the gravest threats in years to its democratic traditions

US joins annual list of 'backsliding' democracies, says report

It said that as of August 2021, 64 per cent of countries have taken an action to curb the pandemic that it considers "disproportionate, unnecessary or illegal."

Afghanistan's decades of progress at risk at Taliban returns, US pulls out

Collapse of swathes of the country into civil war and attempts by millions of refugees to flee could be likely results.

Basic notion of democratic reforms a national security issue in US: WH

The basic notion of democratic reforms and voting rights in the US is a national security issue, Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said

'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

Can US democracy come back?

America's ideals of freedom, democracy, and justice for all may never have been fully realised, but now they are under open attack