AAMER MADHANI

Associated Press Reporter

Aamer Madhani is a White House reporter.
President Joe Biden speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
White House says Biden will visit Pope Francis, Meloni in final international trip of his presidency
President Joe Biden will travel to Italy next month to meet with Pope Francis and top Italian officials for what is expected to be the final international trip of his presidency.
 
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Feb. 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
US effort to curb China’s and Russia’s access to advanced computer chips ‘inadequate,’ report finds
The U.S. Commerce Department’s efforts to curb China’s and Russia’s access to American-made advanced computer chips have been “inadequate” and will need more funding to stymie their ability to manufacture advanced weapons.
 
President-elect Donald Trump arrives for a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump says it was ‘stupid’ for Biden to let Ukraine use US weapons to strike deeper into Russia
President-elect Donald Trump says he might reverse President Joe Biden’s decision to permit Ukrainian forces to use American long-range weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory. Trump on Monday called the move by Biden “stupid.”
 
Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins chats with reporters in New York, Nov. 27, 1945, as she arrives from Europe aboard the Queen Mary, after she headed the American Government's delegation to the International Labor Organization conference in Paris. (AP Photo/Harry Harris, File)
Biden establishes a national monument for Frances Perkins, the 1st female Cabinet secretary
President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and was a driving force behind Franklin D.
 
Former U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue Richard Grenell speaks during a ceremony in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
Trump appoints longtime foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell to serve as special missions envoy
President-elect Donald Trump has picked longtime foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell to serve as an envoy for special missions. Trump made the announcement in a social media post Saturday evening.
 
President-elect Donald Trump, left, joined by Senator-elect Dave McCormick, R-Pa., right, gestures to the crowd as he attends the NCAA college football game between Army and Navy at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Md., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Trump gets warm welcome as he watches Army-Navy game alongside key allies, nominees and Daniel Penny
Donald Trump huddled with allies and a Republican cause célèbre at the Army-Navy football game. He took in one of the most storied rivalries in college sports while spotlighting his emerging national security team.
 
Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures as he accompanies Britain's King Charles III during a visit at Apple's UK Headquarters Battersea Power Station office in London, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, Pool)
Trump hosts Apple CEO at Mar-a-Lago as big tech leaders continue outreach to president-elect
Donald Trump is hosting Apple CEO Tim Cook for a Friday evening dinner at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who is not authorized to comment publicly.
 
This image provided by Mouaz Moustafa shows Travis Timmerman, center, standing with a member of the U.S. military and representatives of Syria's transitional government and opposition activists near the Syria-Jordanian border Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. U.S. forces flew Timmerman out of Syria Friday after rebels freed him following seven months in a Syrian government prison. (Mouaz Moustafa via AP)
US military flies American released from Syrian prison to Jordan, officials say
The U.S. military has brought an American who was imprisoned in Syria for seven months out of the country. That’s according to two U.S. officials, who said Friday that Travis Timmerman has been flown to Jordan on a U.S. military helicopter.
 
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a Time magazine Person of the Year event at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump extends unprecedented invites to China’s Xi and other world leaders for his inauguration
President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders to his inauguration next month. It’s an unorthodox move that would fold U.S. allies and adversaries into a very American political tradition.
 
White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
The Trump and Biden teams insist they’re working hand in glove on foreign crises
President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t think much of Joe Biden’s foreign policy record. He frequently casts the outgoing Democratic president as a feckless leader who shredded American credibility around the world during his four-year term.
 
Journalists at a center for forensic analysis in undisclosed location in Ukraine on Nov. 24, 2024, film fragments of what authorities in Kyiv described as a Russian hypersonic missile that struck a factory in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Nov. 21. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
US warns Russia may be ready to use new lethal missile against Ukraine again in ‘coming days’
The Pentagon says Russia could launch its lethal new intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine again soon.
 
President Joe Biden speaks about his administrations economic playbook and the future of the American economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Biden approves national security memo on China, Iran, North Korea and Russia ahead of Trump’s return
President Joe Biden has approved a new national security memorandum that could serve as a road map for the incoming Trump administration as it looks to counter growing cooperation among China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.
 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on as he receives the Royal Order of the Polar Star ahead of the start of the 31st Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial summit, in Ta'Qali, Malta, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via AP)
US says it will support new Syrian leaders who protect women and renounce terrorism
The Biden administration says the United States will recognize and support a new Syrian government that renounces terrorism, destroys chemical weapons stocks and protects the rights of minorities and women.
 
French President Emmanuel Macron, center, President-elect Donald Trump, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leave after their meeting at the Elysee Palace, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Biden is rushing aid to Ukraine. Both sides are digging in. And everyone is bracing for Trump
The grinding war pitting Ukraine against its Russian invaders has escalated ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
 
Syrian opposition fighters celebrate after the Syrian government collapsed in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
US says terror designation doesn’t bar talks with Syrian rebel group
The State Department says it isn’t actively reviewing the “foreign terrorist organization” designation of the main Syrian rebel group that overthrew of President Bashar Assad’s government this weekend.
 
Marc Tice, left, and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, a journalist who was kidnapped in Syria, update the media about their son's condition as they continue to push for his release, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The US believes journalist Austin Tice is alive after disappearing in Syria in 2012, Biden says
President Joe Biden says the U.S. government believes missing American journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared 12 years ago near the Syrian capital, is alive and Washington is committed to bringing him home after Bashar Assad’s ouster from power.
 
Former Sen. David Perdue speaks during a gubernatorial Republican primary debate on May 1, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool, File)
Trump names former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia to be ambassador to China
President-elect Donald Trump is naming former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia to be his ambassador to China. Trump says that as a former CEO, Perdue will bring “valuable expertise” to the U.S. relationship with China.
 
Steve Witkoff speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Trump dispatched his incoming envoy to the Mideast for high-level talks on reaching Gaza ceasefire
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Middle East envoy recently visited Israel and Qatar for high-level talks on landing a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza.
 
The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 2, 2022. A top White House official on Wednesday said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
White House says at least 8 US telecom firms, dozens of nations impacted by China hacking campaign
A top White House official says at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign.
 
Fellow soldiers carry a coffin of leading actor of the music and drama theatre Petro Velykiy, 48, who was killed in a battle with the Russian troops in Russia's Kursk region, during farewell ceremony in Chernyhiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024.(AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)
White House pressing Ukraine to draft 18-year-olds so it has enough troops to battle Russia
President Joe Biden’s administration is urging Ukraine to quickly increase the size of its military by drafting more troops and revamping its mobilization laws to allow for the conscription of those as young as 18.
 
A plane with three American citizens, Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung who were imprisoned for years by China, arrives at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland, in San Antonio, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
China releases 3 Americans it imprisoned for years, and Beijing says US returned 4 people to China
Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released. That word came Wednesday from the White House and it’s a rare diplomatic agreement with Beijing in the final months of the Biden administration.
 
President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Trump team says Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal brokered by Biden is actually Trump’s win
The Biden administration kept President-elect Donald Trump’s administration closely apprised of its efforts to broker the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah that took effect early Wednesday.
 
Marine Two, an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, with Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff aboard, lifts from Soldier Field in Chicago, Aug. 23, 2024.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Osprey ferrying White House staff in New York grounded due to safety issue, witness reports flames
An Osprey flying as part of the presidential squadron used to ferry White House staff and government officials from an event in New York Monday was grounded due to a safety concern, with one witness reporting flames under the right engine.
 
President Joe Biden, from second left, and chef Robert Irvine serve food at a Friendsgiving event with service members and their families in the Staten Island borough of New York, Monday, Nov. 25 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Bidens open final White House holiday season with turkey pardons, Christmas tree and ‘friendsgiving’
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, have opened their final holiday season at the White House. The president on Monday issued the traditional reprieve to turkeys Peach and Blossom, who will bypass the Thanksgiving table and live out their days in Minnesota.
 
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on Nov. 21, 2024, rescue workers put out a fire of a burning house damaged by a Russian strike on Dnipro, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Putin says Russia attacked Ukraine with a new missile that he claims the West can’t stop
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has tested a new intermediate-range missile in a strike on Ukraine and that it could use the weapon against countries that have allowed Kyiv to use their missiles to strike Russia.
 
President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One late Tuesday, Nov. 19 2024, at Joint Base Andrews, from G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Biden has become notably quiet after the 2024 election and Democrats’ loss
At a delicate moment in the U.S. and for the world, President Joe Biden has been notably quiet lately. That silence may be leaving a vacuum.
 
U.S. President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi react, as world leaders gather for a group photo during the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (Leah Millis via AP, Pool)
Biden appeals to world leaders to stay in the climate fight as Trump casts shadow
President Joe Biden is making an urgent appeal to fellow world leaders to surge money to developing nations to curb climate change as he wraps up his final appearance at a major international summit.
 
U.S. President Joe Biden, left, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, arrive late for a group photo during the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Photo-shoot fail: Biden, Trudeau miss traditional photo with world leaders at G20
President Joe Biden inadvertently was a missing man in the traditional photo of world leaders at the final Group of 20 summit of his presidency. A U.S. official attributed Monday’s photo-shoot fail to timing.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden, right, listens as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, speaks during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Biden authorizes Ukraine to use US-supplied longer range missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia
President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied missiles to strike deeper inside Russia. The move eases limitations on the weapons as Russia deploys thousands of North Korean troops to reinforce its war.
 
President Joe Biden, second right, joined by daughter Ashley Biden, third from right, and granddaughter Natalie Biden, right, meets with indigenous and other leaders during a tour of the Museu da Amazonia in Manaus, Brazil, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
From the Amazon rainforest, Biden declares nobody can reverse US progress on clean energy
Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to set foot the Amazon rainforest.
 
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