Hosting Ireland’s prime minister, Biden celebrates his Irish roots (as he likes to do)
WASHINGTON (AP) — With St. Patrick’s Day this weekend, President Joe Biden got to dwell Friday on one of his favorite subjects: Ireland.
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North Dakota voters will decide whether 81 is too old to serve in Congress
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota voters will decide this June whether to prevent people from running for Congress if they’re old enough to turn 81 during their House or Senate term.
US, G-7 allies warn Iran to back off deal to provide Russia ballistic missiles or face new sanctions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and allies warned Iran on Friday that major Western economies will pile new sanctions on Tehran if it moves forward with an advancing plan to provide ballistic missiles to Russia for its war with Ukraine.
Watch as Biden and Ireland’s Varadkar attend St Patrick’s Day luncheon at US Capitol
Watch as Joe Biden and Leo Varadkar attend the Friends of Ireland St Patrick’s Day Luncheon at the US Capitol on Friday 15 March.
The ‘authoritarian’ lessons Trump and the Republicans want to learn from Orbán’s Hungary
As he gears up for the 2024 election, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump met with an old ally: Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary who has triggered a democratic backslide in his country.
Kamala Harris’s visit to an abortion clinic shows she can do what Joe Biden cannot
Ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to an abortion clinic in Minnesota, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll revealed that a slight majority of voters disapprove of her job performance while only 36 per cent of voters approve of her. That number is lower than the dismal 41 per cent that President Joe Biden has.
U.S. and Allies Warn Iran Not to Send Missiles to Russia
The United States and six other major world powers warned Iran on Friday not to provide ballistic missiles to Russia to aid Moscow’s war against Ukraine and threatened to retaliate if it does by cutting off Iranian air travel to Europe, among other measures.
Macron doubles down on possible NATO deployment in Ukraine ahead of talks to bridge rift with Germany
French President Emmanuel Macron has doubled down on the possibility of sending troops into Ukraine, a day before a key summit with Germany, which is staunchly opposed to the idea. "We cannot exclude options," Macron said in a joint interview with TF1 and France 2 TV on Thursday, when asked to revisit controversial comments made in late February. At the time, the French leader refused to rule out the prospective deployment of Western troops into Ukrainian territory — resulting in scorn from Russia and a backlash from Macron's NATO allies. "What we are doing is giving ourselves red lines," the French premier continued on