Joe Biden, born November 20, 1942, served as vice president of the United States from January 20, 2009 until January 20, 2017 under former U.S. President Barack Obama. Biden served as a United States senator from Delaware for over 35 years. He was one of the youngest senators ever elected in 1972. Weeks after his election Biden's wife and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident.
Biden served as chairman of several committees during his six terms in the U.S. Senate and became a leading voice in the senate regarding U.S. foreign policy, eventually serving as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and in 2008, but became the party's likely-nominee in 2020 to take on Donald Trump after U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race.
Arlie Hochschild spent five years interviewing tea party members in Louisiana prior to Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, and is now hanging out with non-college-educated white guys in Appalachia. Democrats should listen to what she has to say
Washington says the S-400 missile defense system poses a threat to the capabilities of its F-35 stealth fighter jets
The Trump sanctions hit Iran’s oil industry hard but for Iranian manufacturing and the Revolutionary Guard Corps, they’ve been a blessing
Here is an overview of Trump's pardon power, which is sweeping but not absolute
Three decades of chaos, from warlords to al-Qaida affiliate al-Shabab to the emergence of an Islamic State-linked group, have ripped apart the country that only in the past few years has begun to find its footing
The slurs against Democratic candidates in Georgia's election runoffs are the perfect showcase for how Trump and Netanyahu have twisted what 'pro-Israel' means, and why antisemitism so often follows in their wake
Introducing his national security team, President-elect Biden says U.S. 'ready to lead' again on global stage, vows to mend ties with allies
U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Elliott Abrams cautions against repeating what he saw as Obama's mistakes in negotiating the nuclear deal
Trump could still change his mind on the planned pardon, which is among a number of pardons under consideration by the Republican president, the source said
From Iran to North Korea a look at how Antony Blinken, as secretary of state, and Jake Sullivan, as national security adviser, might approach conflict zones
Having Jewish men and women in prominent government positions is so standard that it’s barely even a talking point, community leaders tell Haaretz
The Riches sued Fox and a number of others involved in posting the story, which Fox eventually retracted, for 'intentional infliction of emotional distress'
Ties with Qatar would not necessarily be at the expense of Israeli relations with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia
Ocasio-Cortez was echoed by incoming freshmen Democrats Mondaire Jones and Jamaal Bowman
Hassan Rohani said that if Iran and the U.S. could find a path back to 'the situation on Jan 20, 2017,' President Donald Trump’s inauguration day, 'it could be a huge solution for many issues and problems'
Former prime minister voices optimism about a Biden presidency and predicts the restoration of U.S. leadership on the world stage. He also calls Secretary of State nominee Blinken ‘a great friend of Israel’
What started as a GOP strategy to give the president the time and space he needed to process his defeat is now spiraling into an unprecedented challenge to the election outcome like nothing since the Civil War
The widespread rejection of the election result among Republicans reflects a new and dangerous dynamic in American politics: the normalization of false and increasingly extreme conspiracy theories
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein irked some members of her party with bipartisan outreach and her handling of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing
Yellen, who would become the first woman to serve as Treasury secretary, became Fed chair in 2014 when the economy was still recovering from the devastating Great Recession
Ramallah hopes to restore its relationship with Washington after reaching a historic low under President Trump
Antony J. Blinken has accumulated years of experience working in the White House and is no stranger to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tzipi Livni is among Israelis voicing optimism about him as Biden’s top diplomat
Praised as a talented manager with knowledge of DHS, Mayorkas has emphasized the heightened threat facing American Jews
U.K., France, Germany prepare for period of intense diplomacy to bring back U.S. in nuclear deal fold and curb Iran's nuclear ambitions
Some of Biden's expected appointees also reflect Biden's promise to build an administration that reflects the diversity of the United States
More than 100 former Republican national security officials demanded on Monday that party leaders denounce President Donald Trump's refusal to concede
Thomas-Greenfield served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa under Obama, from 2013 to 2017
Trump campaign legal team distances itself from Sidney Powell after she pushed a theory that a Venezuela-Soros-linked voting machine rigged the presidential election
Blinken, who is Jewish, was an instrumental part of getting the Iran deal passed in Congress ■ He is known as a moderate Democrat, making his path to confirmation easier than other contenders
In terms of actually influencing the nuclear deal, the prime minister never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity