The lame-duck president's speech comes after Trump won a second term largely on the back of US voters' anger at high costs of living under Democrats.

Two years into the US government’s attempt to lure manufacturing of semiconductors and renewable energy back home, the president’s top national security aide, Jake Sullivan, offered a defense of his boss’s major economic choices.

Nasrallah and Hezbollah have thrived with an image of invincibility after confronting Israel in 2006.

Without proper investigations, President Biden announced he favours the Israeli version of the stories.

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The president also stressed the urgency of getting relief to Palestinian civilians in Gaza who lack food, water and medicine

Afghanistan today lies in ruins. While the US wasted more than $2 trillion of its military outlays, Afghanistan is impoverished. Its 2021 GDP was below $400 per person.

One of the few axioms of US politics is the loss of seats by the president's party in midterm House elections