Parting shot
The outgoing Biden Administration’s authorisation for Ukraine to carry out long-range missile strikes against Russian targets using US weaponry signals a significant escalation in the on-going conflict.
The outgoing Biden Administration’s authorisation for Ukraine to carry out long-range missile strikes against Russian targets using US weaponry signals a significant escalation in the on-going conflict.
In an era of heightened political polarisation, Wednesday’s meeting between the incoming and outgoing US presidents signals a return to civility.
The Vice President on Monday laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with President Joe Biden.
Waltz, 50, is a retired Army colonel who served as a Green Beret, an elite special forces unit of the US Army.
Donald Trump will assume the American presidency on 20 January 2025. Biden’s tenure was impacted by his age and slowing mental abilities, thereby opening doors for the deep state, largely composed of individuals who were part of the Obama administration, to push decisions.
In a statement issued later in the day, an aide to McConnell said that he “felt light headed and stepped away for a moment”. “He came back to handle Q and A, which as everyone observed was sharp,” CNN quoted the aide as saying.
US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, expected to plead guilty to two minor tax offences and avoid jail but after the deal with federal prosecutors derailed in a Delaware court, he pleaded 'not guilty,' according to The Washington Post.
The Joe Biden administration has filed a lawsuit against the Texas state over deploying water barriers in the Rio Grande aimed to block migrants from crossing into the US from Mexico
The measures would include testing the security of AI and making the results of those tests public. The companies are Amazon, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Inflection and OpenAI.
According to the American constitution, the vice-president occupies the second highest position in the executive branch of the federal government. In fact, the occupant of this office, the vice-president, is proverbially said to be a ‘heartbeat away from the presiden-cy.’ Thus, if the sitting president becomes physically incapacitated, is impeached, or dies, the vice-president takes over.
