The Biden administration and its allies put their aid push for Ukraine into overdrive Thursday. President Biden approved a $40 billion package of economic, security and humanitarian assistance and a second $100 million shipment of lethal military equipment. The Group of Seven financial ministers agreed on a reported $18.4 billion budget in support of Kyiv.
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President Biden on Thursday approved an additional $100 million in military assistance to Ukraine, just minutes after the Senate passed Mr. Biden's $40 billion military and humanitarian aid package.
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By Josh Boak - Associated Press
As President Joe Biden embarks for Asia on Thursday, he's facing a new risk at home for the economy and his Democratic Party: a global slowdown caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the pandemic shutting down Chinese cities and factories.
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The pullout of American forces begun by President Trump and accelerated under President Biden was the "single most important factor" in the rapid collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan and the takeover of the country by the radical Islamist Taliban movement last summer, according to a new report by the chief U.S. watchdog over the failed 20-year American mission in Kabul.
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The prime minister of Greece on Tuesday issued a stark warning to members of Congress about the future of democracy and the need to stand by Ukraine amid its war with Russia.
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President Biden will host Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson of Sweden and President Sauli Niinisto of Finland for a meeting at the White House on Thursday as the two countries bid to join NATO.
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The Biden administration on Tuesday said Americans can visit COVIDTests.gov to order eight additional at-home tests for the coronavirus.
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The White House said Monday that the racially motivated mass shooting in upstate New York is "another vivid reminder" of the need to prevent hate-driven terrorism, as President Biden prepared to visit Buffalo in the wake of a tragedy that symbolizes his oft-repeated reason for seeking the White House in 2020.
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President Biden's approval rating is at one of the lowest points of his White House tenure.
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President Biden will travel to Buffalo on Tuesday to meet with victims' families from a racially motivated mass shooting in a Black community and join in mourning the 10 people killed and three wounded.
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