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“This assault happened on Donald Trump’s watch, when he wasn’t watching,” Biden told reporters. “It is still his responsibility as president to defend American interests for the next four weeks, but rest assured that even if he does not take this seriously, I will.” In his only remarks on the cyber espionage effort, Trump minimized the impact and suggested without evidence that China was behind the operation, contradicting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top officials who say the evidence points to Russia....

The Biden-Harris transition team revealed the lengthy list of executive orders early on Wednesday, hours before Biden is due to swear the oath of office as the nation’s 46th president. In a sweeping reversal of Trump’s approach, the new administration has committed to protecting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and seek a path to citizenship for those who came to the U.S. as children. “The president-elect is committed to preserving and fortifying DACA,” the Biden-Harris transition said in a statement....

Over a year after taking office, then-President Donald Trump exited the Iran deal and engaged in a campaign of maximum diplomatic and economic pressure aimed at bringing the world’s leading state sponsor of terror to heel. The Trump administration’s actions had a significant impact on Iran’s economy, dramatically decreasing Iran’s leverage in any future negotiations over its illicit nuclear program, support for terrorism around the globe, and myriad human rights abuses....

Biden has repeatedly said that he intends to run for a second term in 2024. Biden, 79, is the oldest president in U.S. history and will be 81 on Election Day in 2024. But 64 percent of Democratic voters said they would prefer another candidate as the party’s nominee, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted last week. Only 26 percent said the party should renominate Biden, the poll found....

“Happy New Year, folks,” the president tweeted as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day. “I think it’s going to be a great year. Why? Because we get to start implementing a lot of the things we passed last year.” Biden began by noting that a monthly cap on the cost of insulin for diabetic patients on Medicare takes effect on January 1. “As of this moment, a month’s supply of insulin will be capped at $35 for anyone on Medicare,” the president tweeted....

The president enjoyed a bump in popularity in January, with his approval rating rising to 43.5 percent, but the figure now stands at around 41.8 percent, according to poll tracker FiveThirtyEight. The Biden administration has just entered its second year and in November the Democrats will face crucial midterm elections that will put the spotlight firmly on the president’s agenda. Biden’s approval has been in negative territory since August 30, 2021—the day before the final withdrawal of U....

According to the political data website FiveThirtyEight—which compiles the president’s approval and disapproval ratings using several polls of adults by pollsters Ipsos, Rasmussen Reports/Pulse Opinion Research, Morning Consult and YouGov—Biden’s approval rating has stayed stable over the last couple of recorded days. In the most recent popularity rating on January 7, Biden had an approval rating of 42.9 percent. His approval rating was at the same level on January 6, but dropped from 43....

The daily forecast published by The Economist predicted that Biden had an 85 percent chance of winning the November election, and a 96 percent chance of taking home the most votes. President Donald Trump’s chances of being re-elected were far slimmer as of Thursday evening, according to the forecast, which gave him a 15 percent chance of winning a second term in the White House. The Economist also predicted that the commander-in-chief had only a 4 percent chance picking up more votes than his Democratic challenger....

Every U.S. ally and major Western government will be represented at the summit, which is scheduled to take place virtually between December 9 and 10. These include Asian treaty allies Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, fellow Quad member India, and Australia and Britain, longtime partners who are also members of the newly minted AUKUS security pact. However, a closer look at the guest list reveals some telling absentees. Neither Russia nor China will attend, with the latter having overtaken the former as the foremost threat in the eyes of American defense planners and supply-chain policymakers alike....

Iranian leaders are still demanding that Biden lift all sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump, as the new president seeks to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal from which his predecessor withdrew in 2018. Biden wants Iran to scale back its nuclear program in line with JCPOA restrictions before any sanctions relief, but Tehran has refused any new talks or concessions until sanctions are eased. Meanwhile, Iran-backed militias are continuing a low-level insurgency against American and allied interests in neighboring Iraq, where Tehran exploited the disastrous U....

That effort began in January 2019 under Biden’s predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who cut ties with the government of socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro after a reelection disputed by opposition leader Juan Guaidó. To this day, Guaidó remains the U.S.-recognized leader of the country, despite having failed to take power through an uprising later that year. He has suffered multiple fractures in his movement, and his position has been weakened to the point where his role as National Assembly leader has been under challenge since January....

The Democratic primary frontrunner told CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time on Tuesday that he had a “good conversation” with the commander-in-chief and set out five things Trump could do to better handle the pandemic. But he also said the pair had agreed not to discuss the specifics of their Monday phone call. Asked why he felt the need to call President Trump amid the ongoing pandemic, Biden said: “Kellyanne Conway… said about four or five days, I can’t remember the exact date, if Biden really wanted to help he’d stop criticizing and call the president and offer his help....

The tax code’s “special treatment” for the types of income the wealthy receive, “combined with sophisticated tax planning and giant loopholes, allows many of the wealthiest people in the world to end up paying a lower tax rate on their full income than many middle-class households,” the budget proposal says. To fix this “glaring problem,” the administration said, it is calling on lawmakers to enact a 20 percent minimum tax on households worth $100 million or more, with over half of the revenue raised coming from billionaires....

On Thursday, when asked how he felt about Hunter being used as a “cudgel” against him, Biden told Stephen Colbert that accusations made against his son weren’t concerning him because they’re being used to get to him. He also called them “kind of foul play.” Hunter has faced a barrage of attacks from President Donald Trump and announced on December 9 that federal prosecutors were investigating his tax affairs. To ensure the process is impartial, Republicans are calling for a special counsel....

Since his inauguration, Biden has signed 25 executive orders—taking a raft of action to shape his agenda and to reverse moves taken by Trump which he disagreed with. Over the same period, Trump signed seven. Obama signed nine in the same timeframe—making 16 between the pair. This comes with Biden having also outstripped the pair in terms of executive actions taken in their first week in power. Prior to January 20, Biden announced a raft of presidential actions focused on issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and racial equity....

At the top of the list: touting FS1’s first ever morning show, which will go head-to-head with Mike Greenberg’s new solo program on ESPN and SportsCenter on ESPN2. As predicted by Sporting News, Cris Carter and Nick Wright will co-headline the new show, called “First Things First.” Premiering in September before the start of the 2017 NFL season, the show will air from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET and create a lead-in for “Undisputed” with Skip Bayless, Shannon Sharpe and Joy Taylor (9:30 a....

Six weeks are a very small sample size to judge a quarterback—even smaller in Herbert’s case, given he has started only four games—but at the time of writing it would take a major leap of faith to believe Burrow and Herbert, respectively the first and sixth overall pick of the 2020 NFL Draft, will not become mainstays of the league for the next decade at least. Both Burrow and Herbert could match NFL records on Sunday, when the former takes on the Cleveland Browns and the latter faces the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 7 of the NFL season....

“We’re not happy with where he’s at,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said, via the New York Daily News. “Just trying to get him healthy.” MORE: SN picks the 15 best baseball movies of all time For nearly two weeks, Teixeira has been dealing with a deep bone bruise that has limited his availability; he hasn’t played a full game since Aug. 16. Even then, if Teixeira puts the ball in play, he lumbers around the bases in obvious pain....

In Game 1 of the 2013 National League Championship Series, Kelly pelted Ramirez with an errant fastball that caused quite the uproar in the Dodgers dugout. MORE: Greatest AL uniforms | What if Joey Votto just drew walks? | Shorter MLB season coming? The 95-mph pitch fractured the slugger’s rib and turned the entire series on its head — the Cardinals wound up punching their ticket to the World Series in six games for a dance with the Red Sox....

Asked by reporters if he would support a budget resolution to pass the legislation, Manchin said, “I will only support moving in a bipartisan way.” He added, “That means an open process. I’ve been very clear about that.” Manchin also released a statement on his stance, where he said, “I will vote to move forward with the budget process because we must address the urgency of the COVID-19 crisis. But let me be clear—and these are words I shared with President Biden—our focus must be targeted on the COVID-19 crisis and Americans who have been most impacted by this pandemic....