The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on four Russian operatives involved in the 2020 poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, CNN reported.
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will be travelling to Hawaii on August 21 to meet the survivors and review the recovery work after the heavy wildfires that have claimed over 100 lives.
The economic woes that China is currently facing, prompted fears that Beijing could in turn become more aggressive, and compensate by escalating the risk of a war with the US over Taiwan, Voice of America (VOA) reported citing experts who closely follow the US-China rivalry.
The Indian embassy in the US expressed its solidarity with the United States over the victims of wildfires in Hawaii, which resulted in the deaths of 80 people and multiple injuries.
The death toll from Hawaii's Maui wildfires surged to 80 as the search teams sift through the smoking blazes of Lahaina town. The officials are determined to find out how the inferno spread so rapidly through the historic resort area with so little warning, reported Al Jazeera.
Once seemingly "inexhaustible" engine which propelled China is now sputtering, posing alarming risks for Chinese households and economies around the planet. From a profit-enhancing version of globalization, China has devolved into the ultimate wild card in a moment of extraordinary uncertain
Garland's decision gives Weiss more powers than a typical US attorney and puts the US in uncharted territory, with three special counsels at the Justice Department currently probing the sitting president, his son and the former president.
United States President Joe Biden on Thursday described China as a “ticking time bomb,” pointing to the country’s underlying economic challenges, The Hill reported.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday declared Hawaii wildfires a "major disaster" and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas impacted by the wildfires since August 8.
The order will ban venture capital and private equity firms from investing money into Chinese efforts to make semiconductors and other microelectronics, quantum computers and certain artificial intelligence applications.
In a move that could rankle Beijing, the Biden administration is planning to issue new restrictions on American investments in certain advanced industries in China to protect ‘national security threats’, New York Times reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the deliberations.