President Biden announces five key nominations
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his intent to nominate the following five individuals to serve in key roles: Amanda ...
Day: June 10, 2021
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden deliver remarks to US Air Force personnel and their families on first overseas trip
President Biden and the First Lady Deliver Remarks to US Air Force Personnel and their Families Stationed at Royal Air ...
Biden announces U.S. will donate 500 million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Africa and rest of the world
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced on Thursday that the U.S. government will purchase half a billion doses of Pfizer–BioNTech ...
Nine in 10 African countries set to miss urgent COVID-19 vaccination goal
As COVID-19 cases in Africa rise for the third week running and vaccines are increasingly scarce, 47 of Africa’s 54 ...
Human Rights Watch concludes Ethiopian government forces ‘summarily executed’ 17-year-old boy Amanuel Wondimu Kebede in Oromia ‘in broad daylight’
Human Rights Watch concluded on Thursday after a painstaking investigation that Amanuel Wondimu Kebede, a 17-year-old boy, was "publicly executed" ...
U.S. Ambassador to UN says humanitarian catastrophe in Ethiopia’s Tigray region is “unacceptable” and “unconscionable”
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, on Thursday, described as "unacceptable" and "unconscionable" the humanitarian catastrophe ...
Global experts identify key options for solutions first-ever collaboration between IPBES and IPCC selected scientists
Unprecedented changes in climate and biodiversity, driven by human activities, have combined and increasingly threaten nature, human lives, livelihoods and ...
USAID Administrator Samantha Power pledges to empower small businesses to ‘tackle the world most pressing challenges’
USAID Administrator Samantha Power on Thursday pledged to empower small businesses to 'tackle the world most pressing challenges'. Power delivered ...
Read joint statement by Joe Biden and Boris Johnson
Today, President Biden visited the U.K. at the invitation of the Prime Minister and in advance of the G7 Summit. ...
Biden administration thrilled as unemployment insurance claims fall by more than 50% – from more than 834,000 to 402,500
The Biden administration is thrilled that unemployment insurance claims have fallen by more than 50% - from more than 834,000 ...