On those rare occasions in 2020 when candidate Joe Biden emerged from his basement to stumble through a campaign stump speech, a common theme was that his administration would do more to use the vast spending powers of the federal government to help American businesses.

According to Biden, previous presidents have largely failed to take advantage of existing laws meant to give preference to U.S. businesses in the federal procurement of goods and services.

The political…

WASHINGTON — As former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial opened Tuesday, the White House press secretary made it clear in the briefing room — three times — that President Joe Biden had nothing to say about it.

“Joe Biden is the president. He’s not a pundit,” Jen Psaki told the 14 reporters seated before her. “He’s not going to opine on the back-and-forth arguments in the Senate, nor is he watching them.”…

Washington: US President Joe Biden has expressed his fundamental concerns about China's coercive and unfair trade practices, its crackdown in Hong Kong, human rights abuses in Xinjiang and increasingly assertive actions in the region in his first telephonic conversation with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

The phone call between the two…

When the boutique tech firm Yosi Health developed software aimed at streamlining the nation's coronavirus vaccine effort, CEO Hari Prasad sought help from one of its earliest investors -- a company with a special government connection.

The investor was StartUp Health, and that special connection came through its chief medical officer, Howard…

President Joe Biden has launched a new feature where he calls Americans grappling with the pandemic and the struggling economy.

Biden spoke to California woman Michele Voelkert, 47, who is having a 'tough time' after getting laid off.

'Keep the faith,' Biden told Voelkert, of Roseville, who lost her job at a California clothing company…

President Biden is set to deliver his first foreign policy speech since he took office, on Thursday afternoon, providing early signals for his plans to chart a course away from former President Donald Trump's "America First" approach to the world.

Biden is set to say that American democratic values have "come under intense pressure in recent…

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden is hosting 10 Republican senators for talks Monday about a new round of coronavirus economic relief, but the U.S. leader and the lawmakers are far apart on how much should be spent.

The Democratic president, in the second week of his four-year term, has proposed a $1.9 trillion package but the opposition lawmakers on Monday called for a $618 billion deal.…

President Joe Biden delivered a memorable inaugural address. In lofty rhetoric intended to echo through the ages, he spoke of unity and healing to a badly fractured nation.

Though the words were noble and welcome, the speech rang hollow. That’s because, even before he delivered his address, Biden had declared his intent to implement a series of…

WASHINGTON, DC – Joe Biden knows enough about the US presidency to understand that the first few weeks are the easiest and most pleasant. There inevitably will be setbacks and crises, particularly for a president who took office amidst a raging pandemic, economic collapse, and a climate crisis near to a tipping point.

In the early weeks a new…

President Joe Biden, 78, is moving into his old boss’ digs at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but he’s long dreamed of stately mansions.

Biden has been enamored by real estate since high school, which has often stretched him financially, according to Realtor.com.

“My idea of Saturday fun was to jump in the Corvette with Neilia [his first wife,…

President-elect Joe Biden is inheriting a national crisis that has built up over 40 years. On January 20, 1981, former President Ronald Reagan took the US on a radical course when he declared in his inaugural address, "In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." He set out to weaken the federal government by slashing taxes on the rich, dismantling regulations, cutting back on public programs and turning many of the nation's problems back…

In another age, Joe Biden’s promise to heal the nation might have been regarded as the kind of blandishment expected from any new leader taking power after the divisive cut and thrust of an American election.

But the next president will repeat the oath of office on Wednesday sealed off from those he governs by a global pandemic and the threat…

President Donald Trump and his supporters applaud his legacy as the first president since Jimmy Carter not to embroil U.S. forces in a new foreign conflict. Certainly, after almost two decades in Afghanistan and almost fifteen years in Iraq, the American electorate values military restraint. There is a fine line, however, between restraint and abandonment of global leadership. Trump sprinted across that line, and global security may pay the price.…

Speculation about Martin Walsh being tapped as President-elect Joe Biden's Labor secretary is swirling anew, but a Democratic insider is downplaying to the Herald the likelihood of the Boston mayor heading to Washington.

Biden "definitely wants Marty Walsh" to lead the Labor Department, a person familiar with his team's deliberations told…

WILMINGTON, DEL. - President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday expressed empathy with struggling families and applauded Congress for passing the coronavirus relief bill as the nation deals with a COVID-19 surge that's casting a shadow over the Christmas holiday.

He called out to frontline workers, scientists, researchers, clinical trial participants…

WASHINGTON: A day after US President-elect Joe Biden introduced climate Policy team, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Sunday informed that the selected climate team will be ready to confront the crisis head-on with our allies around the world.

"Our climate team is comprised of our country's most seasoned public servants and climate…

With bigotry emboldened, ever-escalating partisanship, and a deafening silence from GOP senators as dangerous conspiracy theories spin to their advantage, America is decidedly off-course. Can Joe Biden navigate a post-Trump America back to center? Will his legacy be that of healer-in-chief?

Fortunately, Joe Biden's long-held core beliefs will…

WASHINGTON — A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden’s son.

The breadth of the subpoena, issued Tuesday, underscores the wide-angle…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after President-elect Joe Biden’s victory last month, Cabinet hopeful Marcia Fudge pointedly noted that Black people are often typecast into positions such as housing secretary.

On Friday, Biden announced Fudge, a prominent Black congresswoman from Ohio, was his nominee for that very role. She was introduced alongside…