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Former Biden spokeswoman quits US Democratic party

[WASHINGTON] Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has quit the Democratic party after its “betrayal” of Joe Biden to become an independent, her publisher said in a statement on Wednes...

The mental and physical health of the former president, the oldest person ever to hold the office, was a dominant issue in the 2024 election.
International

Biden says 'I'm feeling good' after cancer diagnosis

[WILMINGTON] Former US President Joe Biden told reporters Friday (May 30) he was feeling “optimistic” about the future after delivering his first public remarks since revealing he had an aggressive fo...

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again depicts a Democratic Party, White House staff and a Biden campaign that – though aware of Joe Biden’s confusion, incoherence and forgetfulness – remained largely silent about it, and instead attempted to hide and spin it.
Opinion & Features

A conspiracy of silence

Book details how Democrats covered up President Joe Biden’s decline

Former US president Joe Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone, according to a statement from his personal office released on May 18, 2025.
International

Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ form of prostate cancer

FORMER US President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, his office announced.

Shares of Nvidia, an AI chip designer whose sales could rise if the rule were changed to increase exports, ended 3 per cent higher after the news came out on Wednesday, but then dipped 0.7 per cent in after-hours trade.
International

Trump administration to rescind and replace Biden-era global AI chip export curbs

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s administration plans to rescind and modify a Biden-era rule that curbed the export of sophisticated artificial-intelligence chips, a spokeswoman for the Department of Comme...

With his tariffs, President Trump is asking consumers, in a very visible way, to spur domestic manufacturing by paying more for goods.
Opinion & Features

Trump’s economic message sounds a lot like Biden’s

It didn’t work then and it won’t work now

US President Donald Trump has drawn widespread criticism for repeatedly brushing up against constitutional guardrails since returning to the White House in January, notably over his policy of mass deportations of undocumented migrants, some without the benefit of a court hearing.
International

Trump says ‘I don’t know’ if must uphold US Constitution as president; blames Biden for ‘bad parts’ of economy

[WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump said in remarks airing on Sunday that he does not know whether he must uphold the US Constitution, the nation’s founding legal document.

US President Donald Trump signs numerous executive orders, including pardons for defendants from the Jan 6 riots and a delay on the TikTok ban, on the first day of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan 20, 2025.
International

‘What a great feeling!’ Trump returns to the White House

THERE’S no place like home. And for Donald Trump, home is back in the White House after four tumultuous years.

On Jan 15, outgoing president Joe Biden delivered his farewell address, noting that an oligarchy and tech-industrial complex were taking hold in America, and warning of the risks of unchecked powers of the presidency.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

History will be kinder to Biden than voters have been

RATING the American presidents is one of historians’ favourite pastimes. This exercise ends up sometimes with surprising results as US presidents who were erstwhile considered to be failures are sudde...

The app, owned by China’s ByteDance, faces a deadline of Jan 19 to find a US buyer in order to continue operating in the country.
Telcos, Media & Tech

TikTok allies close to Trump and Biden race to delay ban on app

President-elect Donald Trump is considering an executive order that would give him between 60 and 90 days to find a solution

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