# joe-biden - Monday 8 August, 2022
# Gaza Israel Conflict
# Gaza Israel Conflict
Since Friday, 43 Palenstinians have been killed with 300 more wounded in the conflict.
# joe-biden - Sunday 7 August, 2022
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
The US President had tested positive for Covid and returned to isolation on 30 July.
# joe-biden - Saturday 6 August, 2022
# Joe Biden
# Joe Biden
Biden’s physician Kevin O’Connor said his antigen test this morning was negative.
# joe-biden - Tuesday 2 August, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
If convicted, the two-time Olympic gold medalist could face 10 years in prison.
# 9/11
# 9/11
The US president said that US intelligence officials tracked al-Zawahri to a home in downtown Kabul where he was hiding out with his family.
# joe-biden - Saturday 30 July, 2022
# Joevid
# Joevid
The US president contracted the virus last week but came out of isolation on Wednesday after returning two negative antigens.
# joe-biden - Friday 29 July, 2022
# China
# China
The leaders of China and US agreed to hold their first in-person summit.
# joe-biden - Wednesday 27 July, 2022
# Joe Biden
# Joe Biden
The US president is fever-free, according to his physician.
# joe-biden - Tuesday 26 July, 2022
# Joevid
# Joevid
The 79-year-old president said his voice is still raspy and he still has nasal congestion, but he is ‘on my way to fully recovered, God willing’.
# joe-biden - Saturday 23 July, 2022
# Covid Diagnosis
# Covid Diagnosis
The US president completed his first full day of Paxlovid, the antiviral therapy treatment meant to reduce the severity of Covid.
# joe-biden - Thursday 21 July, 2022
# Joe Biden
# Joe Biden
The US president is experiencing ‘very mild symptoms’, the White House said today.
# joe-biden - Saturday 16 July, 2022
# Middle East
# Middle East
Biden is looking to use the visit to the Middle East to discuss volatile oil prices and outline his vision for Washington’s role in the region.
# joe-biden - Friday 15 July, 2022
# Saudi Arabia
# Saudi Arabia
Biden became the first US leader to fly directly from Israel to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
# Joe Biden
# Joe Biden
He was speaking at East Jerusalem Hospital.
# January 6
# January 6
The messages could be crucial to the House of Representatives and Justice Department investigations into 6 January
# joe-biden - Wednesday 13 July, 2022
# Middle East
# Middle East
Biden will hold talks with Israeli leaders for two days before meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank.
# joe-biden - Friday 8 July, 2022
# Abortion Rights
# Abortion Rights
The US President said the fastest way to restore the Roe V Wade ruling is “to pass a national law” codifying it.
# joe-biden - Thursday 30 June, 2022
# Roe V Wade
# Roe V Wade
Biden described the US Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional right to abortion as “destabilising”.
# joe-biden - Monday 27 June, 2022
# G7 Summit
- Russia struck a residential building in Kyiv, killing one person and wounding four others.
- Zelenskyy is set to join the leaders of the US, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Japan and Canada via video link.
- The G7 have stressed their unity in the face of Russia's aggression – even as the global fallout worsens.
# joe-biden - Saturday 25 June, 2022
# Gun Control
# Gun Control
While Joe Biden says it falls short of what’s really needed, he added that it will “save lives.”
# joe-biden - Sunday 19 June, 2022
# United States
# United States
Soaring inflation and supply-chain issues have increased pessimism.
# joe-biden - Saturday 11 June, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that serious battles were ongoing in Severodonetsk, a city in the east.
# joe-biden - Friday 3 June, 2022
# Gun Control
# Gun Control
The US President condemned the refusal of a majority of Republican senators to support tougher laws as “unconscionable”.
# joe-biden - Monday 30 May, 2022
# Uvalde
# Uvalde
The US Justice Department announced on Sunday that it will review the police response and make its findings public.
# joe-biden - Sunday 29 May, 2022
# Uvalde Shooting
# Uvalde Shooting
Harrowing accounts emerged of the ordeal faced by survivors of Tuesday’s attack on an elementary school.
# joe-biden - Saturday 28 May, 2022
# Uvalde
# Uvalde
US President Joe Biden will visit the town tomorrow.
# joe-biden - Wednesday 25 May, 2022
# Police Reform
# Police Reform
The date of the signing is highly symbolic, coming exactly two years after Floyd’s death, which triggered huge nationwide demonstrations.
# joe-biden - Monday 23 May, 2022
# US
# US
A Chinese official referred to the Taiwan issue as a “purely internal affair for China”, in reaction to Biden’s remark.
# joe-biden - Friday 20 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The Ukrainian President described the bombardment of Severodonetsk, where 12 people were reportedly killed, as “brutal and absolutely pointless”.
# joe-biden - Thursday 19 May, 2022
# Ukraine
- The Russian military says that a total of 1,730 Ukrainian fighters who were making a last stand in Mariupol have surrendered.
- The Red Cross said that registrations of Ukrainian prisoners of war began on Tuesday under an agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
- US President Joe Biden backed Finland and Sweden's Nato membership bids after meeting the countries' leaders in Washington.
# joe-biden - Wednesday 11 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The Moscow-installed administration said there would be a “request to make Kherson region a full subject of the Russian Federation.”
# joe-biden - Tuesday 10 May, 2022
# Ukraine
- The Ukrainian military said Russian forces fired seven missiles from the air at Odessa, hitting a shopping centre and a warehouse.
- Ukrainian officials said around 100 civilians remain trapped at a steel plant in Mariupol despite earlier reports that all had been evacuated.
- US President Joe Biden signed a new bill to expedite more weapons to the country.
# joe-biden - Monday 9 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Acknowledging the billions of dollars already spent by the United States, Biden said “caving to aggression is even more costly.”
# Roe V Wade
# Roe V Wade
Press Secretary Jen Psaki called for restraint after reports of demonstrations outside the homes of two Supreme Court justices.
# joe-biden - Sunday 1 May, 2022
# Washington
# Washington
US President Joe Biden poked fun at his slumping poll ratings and took several digs at his predecessor Donald Trump.
# joe-biden - Friday 29 April, 2022
# Zaporizhzhia
- Paul Urey and Dylan Healy were "captured" by Russian soldiers at a checkpoint near Zaporizhzhia.
- One person has been killed in a Russian strike on Kyiv during UN Secretary General's visit to the capital.
- Zelenskyy said the strikes were an attempt by Russia to "humiliate" the UN and everything it represents.
# joe-biden - Sunday 17 April, 2022
# Crime
# Crime
Geraldine Byrne Nason will take over the role of Irish Ambassador to Washington in early Autumn.
# joe-biden - Wednesday 13 April, 2022
# Mariupol
# Mariupol
“It’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being able to be a Ukrainian,” Joe Biden said.
# joe-biden - Thursday 31 March, 2022
# US Courts
# US Courts
The law has catapulted Florida and Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, to the forefront of the US’s culture wars.
# joe-biden - Tuesday 29 March, 2022
# He's Irish
# He's Irish
At the weekend, Biden remarked that the Russian President “cannot remain in power”.