Dave Boyer

Joe Biden executive order to raise minimum wage to $15 for federal contractors

President Biden will sign an executive order Tuesday requiring federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage to hundreds of thousands of workers, senior administration officials said.

April 27, 2021

Joe Biden creates task force to spur unionization of U.S. workforce

President Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday to lead a White House task force aimed at the unprecedented goal of unionizing more workers in the U.S. with the broad support of the federal government.

April 26, 2021

Turkey summons U.S. ambassador after Biden declaration on Armenian genocide

The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador in Ankara to protest President Biden's recognition over the weekend that the former Ottoman Empire's mass killing of Armenians was a genocide.

April 25, 2021

Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide

President Biden on Saturday called the killing of Armenians during World War I a genocide. In response to the declaration, Turkey's foreign ministry Saturday said Mr. Biden's statement was politically motivated and lacked any "scholarly and legal basis."

April 24, 2021

Jen Psaki gives reporters chocolate chip cookies at briefing

White House press secretary Jen Psaki had reporters eating out of her hand on Friday -- literally.

April 23, 2021

Biden wants to keep focus of climate plan on ‘union jobs’

President Biden said on Friday that one of his prime climate goals in shifting the U.S. to a clean-energy economy is to create more union jobs.

April 23, 2021

Joe Biden pledges that U.S. will lead world to ‘decarbonize’ industries

President Biden told world leaders on Friday that the U.S. will lead the way to "decarbonize" the globe by reducing demand for fossil fuels that power everything from cars to manufacturing plants.

April 23, 2021

Stocks plummet on report that Biden wants to hike capital gains tax

Stocks slumped Thursday after a report that President Biden will propose almost doubling capital gains taxes on wealthier investors, the third major tax increase the president is eyeing in his first 100 days.

April 22, 2021

Maxine Waters ‘relieved’ at Derek Chauvin guilty verdict in George Floyd case

Rep. Maxine Waters said Tuesday she was "relieved" by the guilty verdict for former police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd.

April 20, 2021

John McLaughlin, Trump pollster, says GOP support still strong, discredits John Bolton survey

Former President Donald Trump's pollster pushed back on Tuesday against a poll commissioned by ex-Trump aide-turned-critic John Bolton that showed Mr. Trump's grip on the Republican Party is slipping.

April 20, 2021

Kamala Harris says Americans are ‘sleeping better’ with her and Joe Biden in charge

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed Monday that Americans are sleeping better now that she and President Biden are in power and said the White House has no plans to slow its agenda of massively higher spending, major tax hikes and transformative social programs.

April 19, 2021

Kamala Harris says infrastructure plan will lead to more union jobs

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday linked the administration's $2 trillion infrastructure plan with efforts to expand union jobs and opportunities for women, declaring that "hardhats are actually unisex."

April 19, 2021

Biden calls Masters golf champion Hideki Matsuyama, 29, ‘a Japanese boy’

President Biden referred to 29-year-old Masters golf champion Hideki Matsuyama as "a Japanese boy" during a joint press conference Friday with Japan's prime minister.

April 16, 2021

Biden says U.S. cooperation with Japan ‘vital’ at first in-person meeting with foreign leader

President Biden held his first in-person meeting with a foreign leader on Friday when he hosted Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the White House for discussions on China, North Korea and progress against the pandemic.

April 16, 2021

White House defends ambassador’s remark that White supremacy in U.S. ‘founding documents’

The White House on Friday defended U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield for saying that White supremacy was "weaved into" the founding documents of the U.S.

April 16, 2021

Joe Biden: U.S. doesn’t want ‘cycle of escalation’ with Russia

President Biden said Thursday that the U.S. doesn't seek "a cycle of escalation and conflict with Russia" after the administration slapped dozens of sanctions on Moscow over its interference in the 2020 presidential election and a massive cyberattack.

April 15, 2021

Mike Pence has pacemaker implanted to correct slow heart rate

Former Vice President Mike Pence had a pacemaker implanted on Wednesday after experiencing symptoms of a slow heart rate, his office said.

April 15, 2021

Biden administration backs away from report of Russian bounties to kill U.S. soldiers

The White House acknowledged Thursday that U.S. intelligence agencies found only "low to moderate" confidence in reports that Russian agents offered bounties to Taliban fighters last year to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, a story that Democrats used to club then-President Trump as weak on Moscow.

April 15, 2021

Joe Biden to host South Korean President Moon Jae-in next month

President Biden will host South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House in late May, the White House announced on Thursday.

April 15, 2021

Joe Biden expels diplomats, hits Russia with sanctions over cyberattacks, election interference

The Biden administration imposed its first sanctions on Russia on Thursday to punish Moscow for the "SolarWinds" cyber-espionage attack against the U.S. government and private companies, and for efforts to influence the 2020 presidential election.

April 15, 2021