Joe Biden is the 46th president of the United States of America. Biden is a member of the Democrat party, and is a career politician. He served as former US president Barack Obama’s vice-president. He had previously been a candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential candidate. Biden served as a member of the Senate from 1972 until 2008, when he became vice-president. Kamala Harris serves as his vice-president.
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to a Catholic family. As a law student, he married Neilia Hunter in 1966. A few weeks after Biden was elected to Senate, his wife and one-year old daughter were killed in a tragic automobile accident. He married Jill Tracy Jacobs in 1977, and had one daughter with her, Ashley Blazer. Biden had two sons, Joseph “Beau” and Hunter, with Neilia. Beau died in 2015 from brain cancer. His son Hunter has been embroiled in a number of financial and behavioral scandals that have served as a black mark on the Biden Administration.
There have been several policies of note during his term as president. Biden oversaw the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the consequential return of the Taliban. His administration also oversaw the Post-Trump Coronavirus pandemic response and economic recovery.
The Biden administration is committed to the two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. Biden is supportive of Israel’s right to exist, but his administration clashed with the Bennett government on several policy issues. Biden has pressured Israel to commit freezing any building over the Green Line. His administration has been critical of the decision by the Israeli government to label six NGOs as PFLP terrorist affiliates. The Biden administration promised the Palestinian Authority that it would open a consulate in Jerusalem, which has raised the ire of Israeli leaders across the political spectrum. In comparison to the Trump and Obama administrations, Biden has taken a very moderate and hands-off approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Biden said US forces on Sunday conducted a dozen precision strikes within Syria targeting camps and operatives of the terrorist group Islamic State.
A line can be drawn from the "fateful decisions" that the US and Iran made in the days after October 7 to today, according to the official.
At the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Biden met doctors to discuss cancer research, sharing her personal experience of losing her son, Beau Biden, to brain cancer in 2015.
President Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden was a justified response to politically pressured prosecutions of minor gun and tax charges.
A bill aimed at studying the potential transfer of the museum to the Smithsonian Institution unanimously passed the Senate and now awaits President Biden's signature.
Hostage families urge that 'we cannot afford to wait' to bring the remaining captives home.
IDF strikes Hamas terrorists in Gaza • American-Israeli hostage Omer Neutra announced dead in Gaza captivity • Hezbollah violates ceasefire agreement
Why Biden’s ceasefire efforts might fall short of addressing Iran’s threat.
"We see you,” Biden said to hostage families in a statement confirming American citizen Omer Neutra’s death.
The lawsuit targets five major financial institutions for enforcing foreign sanctions.
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