Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday stressed that Washington’s language of coercion doesn’t work on Iran, and Tehran will not back down from its “rightful and logical positions,” according to the Iranian presidency’s website. The U.S. “maximum pressure” campaign has “failed miserably,” Raisi said at a …
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court in recess following series of consequential rulings
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The U.S. Supreme Court entered a summer recess on Thursday after concluding a term filled with consequential rulings and a sworn-in ceremony for its first African American female justice. The Supreme Court — where conservatives have a 6-3 advantage over the liberal bloc — on Thursday …
Read More »First African American woman sworn in as U.S. Supreme Court justice
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in at noon on Thursday to formally become an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the nation’s first African American woman to serve in that role. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the constitutional oath for Jackson while Associate …
Read More »U.S. president touts gas tax holiday amid surging energy prices
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The White House has proposed a gasoline tax holiday in a bid to bring down record energy prices. But economists doubt such a move will have any major impact. “Such a tax holiday might reduce gas prices by up to 18 cents a gallon but will …
Read More »Biden calls on Congress to suspend federal gas tax for 90 days
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on Congress to suspend federal gas tax for 90 days, as Americans are frustrated by the nation’s soaring gas prices. “By suspending the 18-cent gas tax — federal gas tax for the next 90 days, we can bring down …
Read More »Biden appoints first Native American to serve as treasurer
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the appointment of Marilynn Malerba, chief of the Mohegan Tribe, to serve as treasurer of the United States, the first Native American to hold the position. The treasurer of the United States directly oversees the U.S. Mint, the Bureau …
Read More »U.S. Texas Republicans reject results of 2020 presidential election
Texas, U.S. | Xinhua | Nearly 5,000 delegates attending Texas GOP Convention over the weekend have overwhelmingly passed a resolution rejecting the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, according to a statement on the Republican Party of Texas website on Monday. “We hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. …
Read More »Biden calls on U.S. to acknowledge and condemn history of slavery
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday urged Americans to “acknowledge and condemn the history of slavery”. Biden, in a proclamation on Juneteenth Day, also called upon the United States to “recognize how the impact of America’s original sin remains. ” “This Juneteenth, we are freshly reminded …
Read More »Biden follows Trump’s “crude and hostile” policy on Mideast
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden is following the same “crude and hostile” foreign policy of his predecessor Donald Trump in dealing with Middle East issues, a Palestinian writer wrote on Thursday. “The truth is that Biden’s foreign policy so far didn’t show any difference from Trump’s crude …
Read More »Biden’s administration faces “only bad options” as inflation soars
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | As U.S. inflation reached a 40-year high in May, President Joe Biden’s administration is facing “only bad options,” U.S. magazine Newsweek has reported. Over the last few months, the White House has been “badgered with questions about how the president will provide relief to Americans struggling …
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