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President Joe Biden told a crowd of Democratic donors about a decades-old photo he took with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an aside that seemed intended to illustrate his long support of Israel and track record of speaking bluntly with the conservative Israeli leader. Biden said he had written on the photo of himself as a young senator and Netanyahu as an embassy hand, “Bibi, I love you. I don’t agree with a damn thing you say.'” He told donors at a fundraiser on October 20, that Netanyahu still keeps the photo on his desk and had brought it up...

President Joe Biden is trying to sweeten his pitch to allocate more money for Ukraine by mixing in billions of dollars for securing the Mexico-U.S. border, in the hope that it will bring more Republicans on board. The idea came up in September, after Ukraine assistance was stripped out of a stopgap measure to keep the government running due to growing Republican resistance to financing the war effort. A lot has changed since September 30: The House has lost its speaker and Republicans are in disarray over selecting a new one, and the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel...

Declaring that U.S. leadership “holds the world together,” President Joe Biden told Americans on October 19 the country must deepen its support of Ukraine and Israel in the middle of two vastly different, unpredictable and bloody wars. Acknowledging that “these conflicts can seem far away,” Biden insisted in a rare Oval Office address that they remain “vital for America’s national security” as he prepared to ask Congress for billions of dollars in military assistance for both countries. “History has taught us when terrorists don’t pay a price for their terror, when dictators don’t pay a price for their aggression,...

President Joe Biden issued one of his most dire warnings yet that Donald Trump and his allies are a menace to American democracy, declaring on September 28 that the former president is more interested in personal power than upholding the nation’s core values and suggesting even mainstream Republicans are complicit. “The silence is deafening,” he said. During a speech in Arizona celebrating a library to be built honoring his friend and fierce Trump critic, the late Republican Senator John McCain, Biden repeated one of his key campaign themes, branding the “Make America Great Again” movement as an existential threat...