Trump can tackle Iran in ways Biden ducked
Tehran has been a problem for every president since Carter but the regime’s weakness is evident.
Joe Biden
Biden exits battling for his legacy and believing he could have won
The 82-year-old president is spending his final weeks in office telling war stories—and facing criticism that he inadvertently ushered in a second Trump presidency.
Biden declares day of mourning for Carter’s funeral
A state funeral will be held next week for the US’s 39th and longest-living president, who after a life of philanthropy post-politics, died at 100 where he was born and mostly lived – Plains, Georgia.
Carter: man of integrity and grace
Following his death at 100, former US president Jimmy Carter is being remembered as a driven leader and a man of ‘simple decency’.
The big inflation gamble that has failed middle Australia
Like Joe Biden, Jim Chalmers and Steven Kennedy have bet the house on an economic policy dud.
Biden eyes sanctions on Russia’s ‘dark fleet’ of oil ships
In his last weeks in office, Joe Biden is planning sanctions against Russia’s energy sector, targeting the ships carrying Russian oil around the world and bolstering Vladimir Putin’s war chest.
Biden commutes sentences of 37 death row inmates
President Joe Biden’s move prevents President-elect Donald Trump from executing most men on federal death row.
Trump’s no lame duck – he’s already getting things done
News from the US suggests that president-elect Donald J. Trump is perceived by many to be the US commander-in-chief while President Joe Biden fades into political nothingness.
Funding bill averts US shutdown
There is anger even among Republicans after president-elect Donald Trump torpedoed an earlier deal
Biden authorises $US571m in more military aid to Taiwan
US President Joe Biden approved $US571.3 million ($914m) in more defence assistance for Taiwan on Friday as the Democrat prepares to leave office next month.
Biden weighs commuting sentences of death row inmates
With 40 men on death row, the decision – which could come by Christmas – would frustrate US President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to resume the rapid pace of executions that marked his first term.
How the White House functioned with a diminished Biden in charge
The walls around Biden were built high; aides kept meetings short, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted – all while the administration denied his decline.
Biden has already left the building: history will not be kind
Joe Biden’s presidency ending in failure is the climax of a career in which his defining objective was simply to be, not to do.
Joe Biden gets lost in Trump’s shadow
The president-elect acts as if he’s already in charge. There’s never been a transition like this before.
Biden announces largest single-day act of clemency in modern history
Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed in home confinement during Covid-19 and pardoned 39 others convicted of non-violent crime.
As Assad flees, rebels find his collection of luxury cars
Islamist rebel forces who marched into Damascus and stormed Bashar al-Assad’s palace found a massive fleet of high-end cars, including Mercedes, Porches, Audis and Ferraris.
White House set to ‘protect’ Cheney, Fauci
Liz Cheney and Anthony Fauci are among prominent targets of Donald Trump being considered for pre-emptive pardons by senior advisers to President Joe Biden.
Sleepy Biden in Angola can’t escape questions about his son’s pardon
The US President’s long-anticipated trip to sub-Saharan Africa and roundtable with African leaders, during which he closed his eyes for an extended period, has been overshadowed by his decision to pardon his son.
Biden’s pardon is a repeat of Yes Minister
The first rule of politics is never believe anything until it is officially denied. This could be a line from Jim Hacker in Yes Minister, or perhaps from the Biden administration?
Biden’s pardon opens door for Trump, hits back at Democrat foes
President Joe Biden has just given Donald Trump carte blanche to issue a pardon to whoever he considers deserves one, probably including many January 6, 2021 rioters.
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