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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.
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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
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Best of BS Opinion: Fragile democracy, IBC set to resume, and more
Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day
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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.
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
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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"
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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
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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"
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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France joins US to mount multilateral challenge on China in South China Sea
France on Friday deployed a nuclear attack submarine in the South China Sea, reported Asia Times
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Democrats pushing President Biden's Covid-19 bill through House panels
Democrats pushed half of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan through a House committee Thursday
Biden rescinds Donald Trump's emergency order on US-Mexico border wall
"I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency at our southern border was unwarranted," Biden wrote in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, reported The Hill
President Biden clear about restoring compassion, order to immigration: WH
"The executive actions signed thus far are just the beginning," a White House spokesperson told PTI
