US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the translator should get a raise. Anchorage, Alaska: Amid a heated start to the Biden administration’s first high-level face-to-face talks between China and the United States, the two countries’ top diplomats found a brief moment to exchange jokes about translators. After US Secretary …
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and is currently the lead spokesperson for the Biden-Harris Presidential Inauguration Committee. Prior to this, he was on Biden’s team during the US President-elect Joe Biden announced on Friday additional members of the White House press and communication team, including India-born Vedant Patel, who has been appointed to the post …
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The Trump administration is rushing to issue permits, finalize major environmental regulations and even sell the rights to drill for oil in Alaska’s wilderness areas ahead of Opening Day in a push that could complicate the climate and conservation agenda of Joe Biden. The 11th hour regulatory race underscores the …
Read More »Biden chooses Vivek Murthy as Covid-19 team co-chair: report
Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy will co-chair a coronavirus task force that President-elect Joe Biden will announce Monday as his first major step in fighting the pandemic, his top campaign promise. Following his inauguration on January 20, Biden will issue a series of executive orders reversing some of President …
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