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Two men, US President Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi standing with the arms stretched outward to wave
Biden administration
What to expect from Modi’s historic visit to the US
President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meet.
Migration
Biden seeks allies on migration crisis at US-Mexico border
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Justice
US senators demand full White House investigation into shooting of Palestinian American journalist
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, waves hello to the committee at the start of a House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies.
COVID-19
People shouldn’t put their guard down when it comes to COVID, Fauci says
President Joe Biden participates in the US-ASEAN Special Summit to commemorate 45 years of US-ASEAN relations at the State Department in Washington, Friday, May 13, 2022.
Foreign policy
US ‘walks fine line’ at Southeast Asia summit to strengthen ties
Jacqueline Flores, left, holds hands with her daughter Nicky at their home in Virginia, July 14, 2021.
Borders
Pressure mounts for Biden to end Trump-era Title 42 that shuts out migrants seeking asylum 
Visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, center, speaks during a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. 
Global Politics
Zelenskiy-Biden meeting signals ‘reassurance’ of ongoing US support to Ukraine, former Amb says
US Air Force airmen guide evacuees aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
Top of The World
G-7 agrees on conditions to recognize and work with the Taliban
US Gen. John R. Allen, left, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, listens to US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, before a change of command ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Former Amb to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker: ‘This is not a kinder and gentler Taliban’
Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the West wall of the the US Capitol in Washington
Extremism
Critics say Biden’s plan to combat domestic extremism repeats past mistakes
Vice president Kamala Harris, in a blue suit, speaks to reporters
Borders
Vice President Kamala Harris calls situation at the US-Mexico border ‘tough’ during visit there
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, arrive to meet at the Villa la Grange, Wednesday, June 16, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. 
Global Politics
Biden and Putin both place a ‘high priority’ on cybersecurity, says presidential adviser after Geneva summit
An array of bitcoins
Top of The World
El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi at a podium with an Egyptian flag behind him
Global Politics
Activists look to Congress after Biden requests military aid for Egypt without human rights conditions
Figures of a 7-year-old migrant girl walking with a woman and unidentified man silhouetted at night
Borders
Many asylum-seekers are returned at the US-Mexico border under Title 42. Advocates call it a ‘sham.’
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone celebrates Easter Mass, which was live-streamed, at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, April 12, 2020.
What the debate over Biden receiving Communion may mean for the world
Biden lifts his hands at podium wearing a suit with Harris and Pelosi standing behind him, clapping.
Top of The World
US President Biden in speech to Congress: ‘America is rising anew’
Supporters of the Turkey Youth Union chant slogans during a protest against US President Joe Biden's statement, outside the US consulate in Istanbul, April 26, 2021.
Human rights
Turkey’s Erdoğan calls Biden’s acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide ‘unfounded, unjust, unrealistic’
Former US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, speaks with a reporter in Sochi, Russia, Feb. 7, 2014. 
Global Politics
Former Amb McFaul weighs in on escalating tensions between the US and Russia
A hand holds up a cartoon in front of the Capitol dome of the Statue of Liberty hugging a Muslim hijabi girl.
Refugees
Refugees stuck in limbo over Biden’s inaction to restore admissions program
A display of a variety of guns on a table made from unauthorized parts
Violence
President Biden set to further regulate ‘ghost guns’
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaks at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, in this this Aug. 28, 2018, file photo.
Justice
Israel has a stake in Biden administration’s decision to lift ICC sanctions
A portrait of Mamphela Ramphele
Lifestyle & Belief
Joe Biden has called for unity. The African concept of Ubuntu offers a path.
Leticia Arcila has voted in local and state elections. This is her first presidential election.
Every 30 Seconds
This young Latina calls health insurance ‘life-changing.’ She hopes Biden will help everyone get it.
Every 30 Seconds
Latino teen hopes the Republican Party can reform itself
President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021. Six of Biden's 17 first-day executive orders dealt with immigration, such as halting work on a border wall in Mexico and lifting a t
Extremism
Civil rights groups oppose expanding laws to target domestic terrorists
Merrick Garland nominated for attorney general
Biden administration
Merrick Garland — once blocked from high court — is set to become attorney general
President Joe Biden signs his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington, DC.
Biden administration
How Biden’s Keystone XL Pipeline cancellation could test US-Canada relations
A rocket is shown launching with the fire from boosters and smoke shown at the bottom with trees in the distance.
Top of The World
Biden seeks to extend US-Russia arms deal; Controversial tweet from Iran’s supreme leader; Honduras set for permanent abortion ban
Izcan Ordaz says Texas conservatism has influenced his politics.
Every 30 Seconds
After 2020 election, first-time Latino voter worries about a divided US
US President Joe Biden is shown seated at a wooden desk with a tall stack of embossed folders next to him.
Top of The World
Biden tackles the coronavirus; Twin suicide bombings in Baghdad; Migrant shipwreck off Libyan coast
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at the North Portico of the White House,  Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington, DC.
A post-America world: Biden’s challenges begin at home, former diplomat Richard Haass says
Lady Gaga performs the national anthem during the 59th presidential inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021.
Biden administration
Biden supporters across the political spectrum unified by outrage, heartbreak and hope
American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021.
Biden administration
‘Even as we grieved, we grew’: Poet Amanda Gorman gives powerful performance at inauguration
The US National Mall is shown covered in flags with the Washington Monument in the distance and the Marine One helicopter flying past.
Top of The World
Inauguration Day for Biden-Harris; Biden to sign 15 executive orders upending Trump-era policies; Trump’s flurry of pardons
A Honduran migrant woman carries a child on her back as they travel with other migrants by foot along a highway in Chiquimula, Guatemala,  Jan. 16, 2021, in hopes of reaching the U.S. border
How the Biden administration might undo some of Trump’s immigration policies
Tony Blinken is shown wearing a blue suit and tie while speaking with Joe Biden wearing a face mask in the distance.
Top of The World
Senate begins Biden cabinet hearings; Mexico urges US immigration policy reform; American woman allegedly steals Pelosi laptop for Russian intelligence
Adela Diaz says the coronavirus pandemic has brought new urgency to her college major in public health.
A young Latina voter in Arizona reflects on the contentious 2020 election
n this Aug. 30, 2019, photo, migrants, most who were returned to Mexico under the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program, receive bottles of water given by volunteers in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico.
Why Biden’s day one promise to end ‘Remain in Mexico’ program may go unfilled
Brayan Guevara identifies as Afro Latino. His family comes from Honduras.
Every 30 Seconds
‘I feel really good’: Afro Latino first-time voter looks forward to Biden administration
Delegates, wearing masks, listen to speeches during the 45th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European UN headquarters in Geneva, Sept. 14, 2020.
At the UN review of US human rights, the Trump administration gets an earful
Dr. Céline Gounder has been named to President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 task force.
COVID-19
‘Equity is very front and center’ for Biden’s new COVID-19 task force
US President-elect Joe Biden, left, who was then US Vice President, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, meet at the presidential compound in Ramallah, West Bank, March 9, 2016.
Human rights
PLO official: Biden is ‘no savior’ for Palestinians but should hold Israel ‘to account’
Erika Peterson, pictured in her first winter in Canada, left the US for Ottawa in 2018.
2020 US presidential election
Some Americans fled to Canada when Trump won. Will a Biden presidency bring them home?
Two men blow up a red and blue balloon
Global Cartoons
How political cartoonists worldwide see a ‘fractured states of America’
A man reads the Diario 2001 newspaper that carries the Spanish headline: "Agony is prolonged for the White House" at a newspaper stand in Caracas, Venezuela, Nov. 4, 2020, the day after US elections.
The world is watching: Global leaders react to US election
In this photo taken on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018, students come out of a school building in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Education
What Russian college students learn about US elections, history and race relations
A composite of eight photos of young Latino voters.
Every 30 Seconds
We followed eight young Latino first-time voters all year. Here’s how they view the 2020 election.
A young person with glasses and wearing a floral shirt poses under a tree outside
Every 30 Seconds
This undecided Latinx voter wanted police and prison reform on the ballot
Women's March activists participate in a nationwide protest against US President Donald Trump's decision to fill the seat on the Supreme Court left by the passing of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the 2020 election, in Washington, Oct. 17, 2020.
2020 US presidential election
How the US presidential election could impact women’s health worldwide
In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, supporters of LGBTQ rights hold placards in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
2020 US presidential election
The US is falling behind the global LGBTQ movement. Can the election change that?
Brayan Guevara in front of Irving Park Elementary School, in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he is a teacher's assistant, June 3, 2020.
Every 30 Seconds
This independent Afro Latino voter has decided on Biden
Democratic US presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks at an outdoor "Black Economic Summit" while campaigning for president in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sept. 23, 2020.
2020 US presidential election
‘Much more diverse than people think’: Black immigrants are reshaping the Black electorate
A JD.com sign is seen at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, Oct. 20, 2019.
US-China relations
Schiff: US power to confront hard targets like China ‘has really atrophied’
A person wearing a finger sack points at an "I Voted" sticker after casting ballot for the upcoming presidential election as early voting begins in Houston, Texas, Oct. 13, 2020. 
2020 US presidential election
Environmental groups work to mobilize Black and Latinx voters
President Donald Trump arrives for a Latinos for Trump Coalition roundtable at Arizona Grand Resort & Spa, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, in Phoenix.
Every 30 Seconds
Trump, Biden battle for Latino vote in Arizona
Biden and Harris wear masks, clasp hands, and Harris points at Biden, smiling with her eyes.
US politics
Biden-Harris ticket highlights historic stance on climate and environmental justice
President Xi Jinping of China makes a toast with VP Joe Biden
Biden’s long foreign-policy record signals how he’ll reverse Trump, rebuild old alliances and lead the pandemic response
Leticia Arcila, a 20-year-old voter in Atlanta, Georgia, said health care is her top priority in a presidential candidate.
Every 30 Seconds
In Georgia, a young Latina reluctantly casts her primary vote for Biden
Jacob Cuenca, 18, is a registered Republican with misgivings about voting for US President Donald Trump in November.
Every 30 Seconds
Trump’s pandemic response has this conservative Latino teen voter considering Biden