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US Elections 2024, a recent poll shows. People are worried because Joe Biden is getting older. Also, they're not sure if he's the best choice for another term.

Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing another $5.8 billion for water infrastructure projects nationwide, paid for by one of the Biden administration's key legislative victories

The U.S. government is giving chip maker GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion in grants to build and expand facilities in New York and Vermont, the first major award in a program that aims to reinvigorate domestic chip production. The award from the Commerce Department kicks off what is expected to be a series of cash injections into semiconductor manufacturing projects in Arizona, Texas, New York and Ohio in the coming weeks.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration stood ready to support Ukraine in its war with Russia for “as long as it takes” and would push for Russia to pay damages to Ukraine following the end of the war.

Ukraine to be held up by political brinksmanship, Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday, as wrangling in Congress blocks $60 billion worth of military backing. «As it relates to our support for Ukraine, we must be unwavering and we cannot play political games,» she said, next to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky at a press conference.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is attacking both Joe Biden and Donald Trump on the age and questioning their mental capacity to govern. In one of her recent rallies, Nikki Haley called Donald Trump (77) as mentally deficient and Joe Biden (81) as too old to be President.

White House on Friday blasted a report from a Department of Justice special counsel that suggested President Joe Biden was suffering memory lapses, and Vice President Kamala Harris called the report «clearly politically motivated.» The report from Special Counsel Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney in Maryland during Republican Donald Trump's administration, has prompted an election-year brawl and renewed questions about Biden's advanced age. This week Biden, 81, mixed up the names of several world leaders.

Kamala Harris was not Joe Biden's first choice as his running mate because he knew that she was not up to the job. He preferred Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as his running mate in 2020 but succumbed to public pressure. Veteran Washington journalist Charlie Spiering has made this startling revelation in his book 'Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House'. He has written in the book that Biden chose Harris days before that year’s virtual Democratic National Convention after promising to select a woman. He also wrote that Biden chose Kamala Harris under pressure from former President Barack Obama.

An absurdist scenario has played out for months in the bizarrely binary racial politics of the US, with one Indian-American identifying as “Black" in the vice-president’s office (Kamala Harris generally downplays her mother’s Tamil heritage) and another passing for “White" (Nikki Haley’s parents are Punjabi Sikhs) in her quest for the Republican party’s presidential nomination in a field of candidates that included Vivek Ramaswamy, the only undisguised Indian-American among the three, till he withdrew from the race this week. This mercurial 38-year-old entrepreneur splashed $17 million of his own money to garner only about 8,000 votes in Monday’s Iowa caucuses, a moment of truth that led him to drop out in support of Donald Trump, with the controversial ex-president hinting of a relationship: “It’s an honour to have his endorsement.

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Taylor Swift said that it was the proudest and happiest news and after receiving this appreciation she is thrilled to work harder. The Shake It Off singer defeated a number of competitors to win, including Barbie, the King, and the prosecutors for former US President Donald Trump. For Swift, it caps off an incredible year in which she won numerous other end-of-year accolades. Forbes ranked her the world's most influential woman in media and entertainment, while People Magazine named her the most intriguing person of 2023. With over 26 billion plays on her songs, the 12-time Grammy winner has also surpassed all other artists as the most streamed artist globally on Spotify. Her Eras Tour is expected to bring in over $1 billion, and the movie adaptation became the highest-grossing concert film ever. In addition, she reissued updated versions of her third and fifth albums, 1989 and Speak Now, which were the result of a dispute between Swift and music entrepreneur Scooter Braun on who owned the master recordings. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Greta Thunberg, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris are among the previous Time Person of the Year winners.

WASHINGTON—During more than a dozen phone calls to discuss the war in Gaza between President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a U.S. official, who has become increasingly involved in the administration’s handling of the conflict, was listening in: Vice President Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris broke a nearly 200-year-old record for casting the most tiebreaking votes in the Senate when she voted Tuesday to advance the confirmation of a new federal judge in Washington, D.C. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, called Harris' 32nd tiebreaking vote a «great milestone.» Harris returned to Capitol Hill later in the day to cast her 33rd vote as well, securing the judge's confirmation. The previous recordholder was John C. Calhoun, who cast 31 tiebreaking votes during his eight years as vice president, from 1825 to 1832.

The United States has taken action to reduce methane emissions from oil and natural gas production

Israel's military increased airstrikes on Hamas targets in southern Gaza, a widening front in the war, as each side ruled out further talks toward a renewed cease-fire. Israel pulled its negotiating team from Qatar, denting hopes that a seven-day cease-fire, accompanied by exchanges of hostages and prisoners, would be extended.

DUBAI—World leaders gathered for climate talks in this oil-rich corner of the globe amid sharp divisions over how quickly governments need to wean their economies off fossil fuels to prevent the planet from blowing past the Paris accord’s temperature targets. Vice President Kamala Harris was expected to join Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, French President Emmanuel Macron and a host of leaders from across the Gulf region Friday at the start of a two-day summit to kick off the United Nations’ annual climate talks, known as COP28.

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Green Climate Fund, sources familiar with matter said on Saturday as Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Dubai for the U.N. climate summit. The fund, with more than $20 billion in pledges, is the largest international fund dedicated to supporting climate action in developing countries.

United States next year, US President Joe Biden and Vice President joined Instagram’s Threads. The move of joining 'Threads' comes after the White House commented on recent Elon Musk’s antisemitic controversy where he shared a conspiracy theory on X.