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Joseph Clark

Joseph Clark

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Joseph Clark covered Congress and national security for The Washington Times.

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President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to protect Social Security and Medicare and lower healthcare costs, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden’s Super Bowl interview scrapped

President Biden will buck a long tradition of commander-in-chief sitting down for a pre-Super Bowl interview Sunday, the White House announced Friday.

February 10, 2023
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the swearing-in ceremony of Tarciana Medeiros, the first woman to preside the Banco do Brasil, one of the country's main public banks, in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 16, 2023. President Joe Biden is welcoming the Brazilian President to the White House on Feb. 9 for wide-ranging talks. The leaders are expected to discuss efforts to safeguard democracy, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and climate change, including efforts to stem deforestation of the Amazon. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Biden to host Brazil’s Lula for talks focused on democracy, global challenges

President Biden will host newly elected Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the White House on Friday for talks focused on democracy just over a month after supporters of his defeated predecessor Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brazil's capital in protest over the election.

February 10, 2023
Lawmakers and intelligence advisers, including Gen. Glen VanHerck, left, commander of the United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, arrive for a closed briefing on the Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the United States recently, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hill fumes as Pentagon describes vast China balloon spy program

China's balloon surveillance program has gone on for years and monitored dozens of countries, the Biden administration said, on a day when its handling of the balloon that traversed the country last week came under sharp, bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.

February 9, 2023
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio, R-Fla., talks to reporters after a closed-door briefing on the Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the United States recently, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Furious lawmakers grill Biden officials over Chinese spy balloon

Bipartisan frustrations on Capitol Hill over President Biden's response to the Chinese spy balloon that traversed the continental U.S. last week hit a tipping point on Thursday as senators faced off with administration officials in an all-hands classified briefing on the incursion and the decision to finally shoot it down off the coast of South Carolina over the weekend.

February 9, 2023