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WASHINGTON—The Commerce Department said Monday it was rescinding a list of prohibited transactions with TikTok and WeChat that were issued in September as the Trump administration sought to block new U.S. downloads of both Chinese-owned apps.The withdrawals came after President Joe Biden earlier this month withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of Tencent-owned WeChat and TikTok, and ordered a Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps and others.The Commerce Department under Trump also had sought to ban other transactions that would have effectively banned WeChat’s use in the United States...

The White House on Monday blocked President Joe Biden from speaking with reporters about a signature administration effort on entitlements. The Biden administration kicked off a messaging push to promote the child tax credit, but Biden was not scheduled to speak to reporters. Families will begin receiving monthly payments in their bank accounts of $250 or more per child beginning in July, a massive entitlement program that comes as part of Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue plan. Biden was not part of the White House’s number one messaging strategy of the day. His daily schedule for Monday only featured a...

President Biden’s high-stakes summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up earlier than anticipated — with American reporters left in the dark and initially dependent on Russia’s Foreign Ministry for information on the discussions. The talks ended at 5:05 p.m. local time after an introductory sit-down at 1:39 p.m. — meaning the entire summit lasted less than four hours, rather than the four to five hours predicted by the White House.

Joe Biden's White House tried to put out the flames of a major transatlantic bust-up with Britain today after the president was accused of rebuking Boris Johnson for 'inflaming tensions' in Northern Ireland. Brexiteer Tories branded the 78-year-old Democrat 'senile' after he failed to side with the UK in its 'sausage war' bust-up with the EU. The US President instead used his diplomats to express 'great concern' over the conflict centred on post-Brexit trade rules agreed last year by both sides, which the UK is now seeking to change, the Times reported today. The US is said to have issued...

The White House on Monday called an early afternoon lid on President Joe Biden’s public activities after an extended weekend at home in Delaware. The president ended his schedule of public events at 1:48 p.m. EST — after about four hours of work.

In a break with recent tradition, President Joe Biden will not be delivering the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame this year - although he was invited by the university to do so. On Tuesday, the university announced that its May 23 commencement speaker will be Jimmy Dunne, a finance executive and trustee of the university. During the last three presidential administrations, U.S. presidents or vice presidents have addressed the university's commencement in their first year in office, but that trend will not continue in 2021. Although a university spokesman told CNA that, as a policy, “we do...

The issues discussed by Biden and Putin included "the intent of the United States and Russia to pursue a strategic stability dialogue on a range of arms control and emerging security issues, building on the extension of the New START Treaty," according to a statement issued by the White House. During a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Joe Biden invited him to hold a meeting "in a third country". "President Biden reaffirmed his goal of building a stable and predictable relationship with Russia consistent with U.S. interests, and proposed a summit meeting in a third country...

The United States is considering lifting some sanctions on Iran, after two days of talks in Vienna - the first time that Iranian diplomats were in the same meeting hall as their counterparts from the Biden administration. The move is aimed at restoring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action - the nuclear deal signed under President Obama in 2015 but ripped up by his successor Donald Trump. Sanctions which were 'inconsistent' with the nuclear deal could now be lifted, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Wednesday.

BEIJING is using an "insidious" policy of coercion and pressure to assert its control over the South China Sea, a leading Asia analyst has said. China has long claimed sovereignty over the disputed waters, saying that the entire waterway up to the coasts of the Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan belongs to it. Beijing's claim is based on the U-shaped nine-dash line etched onto a map in the 1940s by a Chinese geographer. In 2016, an international court of arbitration dismissed China's territorial claims. Despite the ruling, the People's Republic has in recent years built artificial islands in the waters claimed...

A series of embarrassing incidents in recent days shows that while the left may control the media narrative, it’s not fooling Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin into thinking President Joe Biden is strong.Biden had a beyond-friendly interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton, on March 16 in which he allowed Stephanopoulos to lure him into calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “killer” with “no soul.” It would be one thing if there were some purpose behind Biden’s hostile utterance about his Russian counterpart, but it didn’t appear tied to any strategic foreign policy goal.Other than...

“The perception of you that got you elected as a moral, decent man is the reason a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and are trusting you with unaccompanied minors.” That was PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor at Joe Biden’s March 25 press conference. The event was really a worship service, conducted by house hagiographers and lacking only mandatory timed applause. Still, the proceedings did prove informative in a different way. Biden needed a cheat sheet and marked photos of approved reporters. The Delaware Democrat is utterly captive to his handlers, a condition previously showcased by America’s...

On Saturday and Sunday, the President has no public events scheduled. Biden Residence, Wilmington, DE. On Friday, The President arrives in Wilmington, Delaware (4:30 PM Actual) Biden Residence, Wilmington, DE.

Anyone who tried to stay awake throughout Biden’s first speech to the nation likely zoned out after three minutes. He is a boring speaker. We all know he is laboring to read the teleprompter as written but he has difficulty even doing that. Biden is the emptiest of suits who is being shuffled before the camera on rare occasions as the pretend president but anyone with a pulse can see that the man is senile, diminished beyond reach. He is a clueless but willing tool of the Maoists who are calling the shots and are dedicated to their project, the...

Clyburn comments on several things. His 'excuse' for Biden's dementia starts at 4:30. Click here for video..

I guess the White House didn’t want President Biden to take questions… ================================================================= BIDEN: "I'm happy to take questions if that's what I'm supposed to do…" *White House feed cut* pic.twitter.com/y5BHhgXWOB — The First (@TheFirstonTV) March 3, 2021

Is Concealing the Mental Incompetency of a Candidate and/or President Treason? As much as everyone is discussing Biden's apparent incompetency, I am boiling with anger that the people behind his campaign and surrounding him now are pulling off a gigantic fraud against the American people and usurping the power of the Presidency of the United States. I'd like to know what to call this immense crime. By naming it, and the perpetrators, perhaps the narrative can advance to break through the conspiracy and get a real president.

HANNITY: “You are a former Secret Service agent. Are you saying that if we were to bring on Secret Service agents, they would confirm what you are saying?” BONGINO: “Well, they call it the Secret Service for a reason, but I maintain a lot of contacts outside of even law enforcement, and I’m telling you, from what I’ve heard from people in my network, everyone knows how bad it is. Everyone. It’s not a mystery. It is the worst-kept secret in the White House. And how they can — think about this. We are only in the second month of...

BONGINO: “Well, they call it the Secret Service for a reason, but I maintain a lot of contacts outside of even law enforcement, and I’m telling you, from what I’ve heard from people in my network, everyone knows how bad it is. Everyone. It’s not a mystery. It is the worst-kept secret in the White House. And how they can — think about this. We are only in the second month of this. How bad is this going to be four years from now? This is a serious problem. It’s not a joke.”

On Saturday and Sunday, the President has no public events scheduled.

In his first big appearance on the global stage, President Joe Biden called on fellow world leaders to show together that “democracies can still deliver” as he underscored his administration’s determination to quickly turn the page on Donald Trump’s “America First” approach.