President Joe Biden will announce plans for the U.S. military to construct a port in Gaza to facilitate deliveries of humanitarian aid at his State of the Union speech Thursday night‚ according to media reports. The U.S. military will not place American troops on the ground to construct the new pier allowing a larger volume of food‚ medical supplies and other items to reach the people in Gaza‚ The Associated Press reported‚ citing administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity...

President Joe Biden is to announce that the US military will construct a port in Gaza to get more humanitarian aid into the territory by sea‚ senior US officials say. The temporary port will increase the amount of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians by "hundreds of additional truckloads" per day‚ officials say. However it will not include US troops on the ground in Gaza‚ they said. The UN warns that a quarter of the population is on the brink of famine. The port will take "a...

US forces will build a temporary port on the Gaza shoreline in the next few weeks to allow delivery of humanitarian aid on a large scale‚ Joe Biden will announce in the State of the Union speech. “We are not waiting on the Israelis. This is a moment for American leadership‚” a senior US official said on Thursday‚ reflecting growing frustration of what is seen in Washington as Israeli obstruction of road deliveries on a substantial scale. The port will be built by US military engineers...

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley suspended her campaign on Wednesday‚ leaving former President Donald Trump as the last one standing in the GOP presidential primary. Throughout its duration‚ Haley’s campaign was met with plenty of resistance‚ not only from Trump supporters but also from the second-place DeSantis camp. Despite making a better show of it than expected‚ Haley’s attempt was not enough to overtake the 45th president. Now that she has ended her bid‚ her...

Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump are scrambling to win over supporters of Nikki Haley‚ a constituency that could be crucial to sending either man back to the White House. Haley dropped out of the Republican presidential nomination contest on Wednesday but did not endorse Trump and said it was now up to him to "earn" the support of voters who did not initially back him. Almost 570‚000 voters in three key battleground states - Nevada‚ North Carolina‚ and Michigan - voted for...

President Joe Biden all but locked down the Democratic nomination Tuesday‚ but his weakness in Minnesota should serve as a flashing red warning light for Democrats‚ both here and in the more purple battleground states. Despite no money and a bare-bones‚ last-minute organization‚ the “Uncommitted” line pulled nearly 19 percent‚ as progressive voters sought to send a message to Biden that he needs to change his policy toward Israel and its ongoing war in Gaza if he’s to earn their vote....

President Biden during Thursday night's State of the Union address will lay out a distinctly populist vision for what economic policy in his second term would look like. Why it matters: Next year is set to be a seismic year for U.S. fiscal policy‚ even if the topic doesn't get covered much‚ given the stakes of the 2024 election for such attention-grabbing topics as abortion and the future of democracy. In Thursday night's speech and in a budget proposal due out next week‚ the Biden...