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© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about a U.S. Special Forces operation in Northern Syria against ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 3, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on…

World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic meets Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and thanks his administration as well as his fellow citizens for their support during the time he was detained and deported from Australia over his vaccination status, ahead of the Australian Open.

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi gestures as he holds his end-of-year news conference in Rome, Italy, December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli 2/2 By Gavin Jones, Angelo Amante and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Last weekend, for the first time in his gilded career, Mario Draghi missed out on a promotion.…

For the first time, the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday voted to expel a senator, stripping Sen. Katrina Robinson of her elected position following her federal conviction on federal wire fraud charges.Robinson, D-Memphis, had decried the Senate’s move as racist and misogynistic and called the expulsion a “procedural lynching” Wednesday. The senator grew emotional on the…

© Reuters. White House Warns Latest Jobs Data Will Be Ugly Due to Omicron (Bloomberg) — The White House is lowering expectations for this week’s U.S. jobs report, saying that brief absences of workers due to omicron could overstate the number of unemployed people for last month. Several White House officials have teed up Friday’s report…

If Donald Trump is right that former Vice President Mike Pence could have single-handedly tossed out the results of the 2020 presidential election, that means current Vice President Kamala Harris gets to choose the next president, quipped Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.).Pence did not — nor will Harris — have the right to unilaterally pick a…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi holds a news conference after the government met to discuss stricter coronavirus disease (COVID-19) health pass rules, in Rome, Italy, November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi is likely to have a hard time controlling his coalition,…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) speaks at a meet and greet on his “Dignity of Work” tour in Concord, New Hampshire, U.S., February 9, 2019. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown on Friday said he met with President Joe Biden’s three latest nominees for the Federal…

Fox News’ Sean Hannity was taken to task on his own show by Geraldo Rivera for airing an attack ad accusing President Joe Biden of cognitive decline.Hannity parroted the right-wing talking point that Biden is mentally unfit for office by comparing footage of the president’s speeches over the years with a new spot released by…

© Reuters. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House plans to host the chief executives of major U.S. companies including auto and tech sector firms on Wednesday to discuss President Joe Biden’s…