Tag: Joe Biden

Biden Voices Support for Iron Dome, Plans to Visit Israel on Call With PM Bennett

The White House announced Sunday that President Joe Biden plans to visit Israel later this year. On a Feb. 6 call with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Biden affirmed his “unwavering” support for Israel and agreed to visit the country later this year, according to a White House readout of the conversation. The White House…


Biden Touts Positive Jobs Report

President Joe Biden touts a positive jobs report for the month of January capping off his first year as president. U.S. employers added 467,000 jobs in January, seemingly unaffected by a surge of Omicron cases. The Department of Labor (DOL) report released Friday also revised its estimate of job gains for November and December, increasing…


US Economy Adds Surprising 467,000 Jobs in January

The U.S. economy added 467,000 new jobs in January, topping the market estimate of 150,000, new Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data show. The unemployment rate edged up to 4 percent, up from 3.9 percent from December. It also matched the median expectation. The labor force participation rate advanced to 62.2 percent, average hourly earnings…


Former Australian Major General on ISIS Leader’s Death

Australian Sen. Jim Molan, a former army general, has said the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi is a reminder that, amid the threats posed by China and Russia towards Taiwan and Ukraine, the threat of ISIS “did not go away.” Molan praised the United States for their operation in northwest Syria on Feb. 3 that targeted…


Biden Heads to New York to Outline New Plan on Stopping Gun Crime

President Joe Biden is calling for more funding from Congress and announcing plans to crack down on shootings as a means of addressing increased nationwide crime in recent years. The rate of violent crime in the U.S. reached a ten-year high in 2020, according to data from the FBI. This included a year-over-year jump in…


ISIS Leader Killed During US Raid in Syria: Biden

U.S. forces in the cover of darkness took out the leader of the ISIS terrorist group in Syria on Feb. 2, U.S. President Joe Biden announced Thursday. The operation in northwest Syria killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of ISIS. The deceased took over as head of the militant group on Oct. 31, 2019, just days…


ISIS Leader Killed During US Raid in Syria: US Officials

A raid by U.S. forces in Syria under the cover of darkness led to the death of the leader of the ISIS terrorist group, U.S. officials said on Feb. 3. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of ISIS since 2019, was the target of the operation in northwest Syria. As U.S. special operations forces under the control of…


Biden Plans to Reduce Cancer Deaths by Half in 25 years

President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his commitment to reduce the nation’s cancer death rate by half in the next 25 years as part of an effort to “reignite” former President Barack Obama’s “Cancer Moonshot” initiative. In the years following the passage of the National Cancer Act in 1971, the nation’s cancer death rate remained…


NGA Chair Ducey: Biden Administration’s Southern Border Policy ‘Disconnected From Reality’

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday called the Biden administration’s southern border policy “disconnected from reality.” Ahead of a meeting with the National Governors Association (NGA) on Monday, President Joe Biden spoke of America having a chance to reassert world leadership on a range of issues including “everything from the environment to dealing with…


Biden Demands Taliban Release Captive Civil Engineer

President Joe Biden is calling for the release of Navy Veteran Mark Frerichs, a civil engineer who was taken hostage by the Taliban two years ago. “Threatening the safety of Americans or any innocent civilians is always unacceptable, and hostage-taking is an act of particular cruelty and cowardice,” said the president in a statement released…