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Tom Hanks narrates a new spot that marks year one of Joe Biden’s presidency, one that tries to reinforce a message that the country is on the right track. The video comes from the Biden Inaugural Committee. The spot will run on broadcast and cable on Thursday, and then on digital platforms over the next week, with…

The biggest surprise from Joe Biden’s presidential press conference was its length: At nearly two hours, it was as if he was trying to compete with Donald Trump for making his meetings with the media more like a marathon. It also affirmed what White House correspondents have long <a…

UPDATE, 2:55 PM PT: Joe Biden wrapped up a surprisingly long presidential press conference, lasting nearly two hours, insisting that he was willing to reach out to any Republican but that he was facing an opposition that was even different than when he served as vice president to Barack Obama. Toward the end of the…

President Joe Biden holds a solo press conference at the White House on Wednesday, one of the few such events he's had in the 12 months since he took office. Reporters will likely pepper him with questions about Omicron, the situation with Russia and Ukraine, the status of voting rights and the future of Build Back…

James Austin Johnson returned as Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live tonight, as the president offered his plan to curb Covid. The show opened with Johnson’s Biden at a lectern, in another speech to the nation, as he leaned into the microphone and said, “There’s one simple thing you can do to make this whole virus go…

Star Jones, who will become the host and judge on Divorce Court later this year, has another new gig: A presidential appointment to a U.S. commission. President Joe Biden tapped Jones to serve as one of the members of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, an agency which is tasked with…

UPDATED,  with additional details: Joe Biden will hold a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, the day before his presidency hits the one-year mark. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki made the announcement at the daily briefing on Friday. “The president looks forward to speaking directly to the American…

Joe Biden’s administration was dealt a setback in its effort to curb Covid, as the Supreme Court blocked a mandate that larger businesses require employees be vaccinated or submit to regular testing. The high court did uphold a requirement that health care firms that receive federal money comply with a vaccine mandate…

UPDATE, 11:35 AM PT: After meeting with Democrats on Capitol Hill to discuss a strategy to pass voting rights legislation, Joe Biden said, “I hope we can get this done — the honest to God answer is, I don’t know whether we can get this done.” “Like every major civil rights bill that came along, if we miss the first…

Joe Biden announced plans for a wider distribution of at-home Covid tests and higher quality masks, as much of the country grapples with a dramatic increase in cases due to the Omicron variant. But he also concluded his remarks to call on media to curb the spread of misinformation about the pandemic. “I make a special…

UPDATE, 1:48 PM PT: Joe Biden characterized pending voting rights legislation in historic terms, as he called for changing the filibuster rules of the Senate to pass them. That includes getting rid of the 60-vote threshold specifically for the purposes of passing two voting bills. The legislation would, among other…

UPDATE, 8:52 AM PT: Despite lower-than-expected job growth in December, President Joe Biden touted his economic agenda as a success. “Today’s national unemployment rate fell below 4%, to 3.9%, the sharpest one year drop in the unemployment rate in United States history,” said Biden, speaking from the White House. He…