The Latest Breaking News from Joe Biden

More than half of states treat drug possession as a felony, even as 75% of Americans say it’s a health problem, poll says

Chamber votes 206-198 against release of report into former Florida representative, who resigned from Congress last month. Plus, how climate breakdown can still be avoided

Congress, federal watchdogs and advocates call for closures of facilities as DHS inspector general reports medical shortages, sanitation violations and neglect of detainees

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Incoming president says former senator from Georgia labeled ‘anti-China’ will help build ‘productive working relationship with China’s leaders’

ICE is currently negotiating at least 14 contracts with private prison companies despite Biden's initial pledge to end such practices

Dick Van Dyke has joked that he is "old enough" to be Joe Biden's father as he approaches his 99th birthday.

China has banned exports of key materials used for a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, radar systems and CT scanners, swiping back at Washington after it expanded export controls to include dozens of Chinese companies that make equipment used to produce computer chips

Outgoing US administration fears revenge attacks against critics like former Republican legislator Liz Cheney.