Environmentalists condemn Biden administration’s offshore drilling plan
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Joe Biden’s administration on Friday unveiled a five-year offshore oil and gas drilling development plan that blocks all new drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans within US territorial waters while allowing some...
Biden urged to do more to defend abortion rights: ‘This is a five-alarm fire’
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High above America’s capital, pro-choice activists scaled a construction crane, inching across its latticed steel arm, to affix a banner with a message for the president to see. It read: “BIDEN PROTECT ABORTION.” In t...
Joe Biden predicts states will try to arrest women who travel for abortions – video
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Joe Biden said on Friday that some US states would try to arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions after the supreme court overturned the constitutional right to the procedures nationwide. Speaking virtu...
Israel delays travel restrictions on West Bank in apparent gesture to Joe Biden
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Israel has delayed the implementation of strict rules limiting the ability of foreigners to enter and stay in the occupied West Bank, in what is believed to be a gesture to Joe Biden before the US president’s visit to...
Nato will stick with Ukraine as long as it takes, says Joe Biden
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Joe Biden has declared that the US and Nato allies will stick with Ukraine “as long as it takes” at the end of a two-day summit that saw the military alliance promise hundreds of thousands more troops to defend easter...
Biden backs exception to Senate filibuster to protect abortion access
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Joe Biden said on Thursday he would support an exception to the Senate filibuster to protect access to abortion, after the supreme court overturned the right in a historic ruling this month. “If the filibuster gets in...
Biden can end Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ program, supreme court rules
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The supreme court has issued a ruling that will allow the Biden administration to end a Trump-era immigration program forcing asylum seekers attempting to enter the US at the southern border to return to Mexico while ...
Israel delays travel restrictions on West Bank in apparent gesture to Joe Biden
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Israel has delayed the implementation of strict rules limiting the ability of foreigners to enter and stay in the occupied West Bank, in what is believed to be a gesture to Joe Biden before the US president’s visit to...