The Latest Breaking News from Joe Biden

President Donald Trump‘s swift firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on August 1 sent ripples through financial markets already reeling from disappointing employment data. The decision, announced just hours after July’s lackluster jobs report, has economists warning about a dangerous precedent that could undermine one of America’s…

Unprecedented deal, an apparent reversal of security restrictions, is in return for licences to sell to China

Nvidia and AMD will reportedly pay 15% of their Chinese revenue to the US government so they can sell AI-capable chips there, despite warnings from security experts

Vice-president tries to deflect criticism of government’s refusal to release so-called Epstein files, triggering renewed calls for transparency – key US politics stories from Sunday 10 August

NEWS ANALYSIS: Trump turns to peacemaking in his latest effort to grasp Obama’s global acclaim. He’s not yet found any success, writes John Bowden

Vice-president tries to deflect criticism and blames Biden for doing ‘absolutely nothing’ about convicted sex offender

William Beach, who Stephen Moore calls a “good friend,” said Trump's numbers shared during his Oval Office presser were “the strangest thing in the world.”

President told people at a fundraiser last month he was considering changing marijuana’s Schedule I classification

Roland Beainy from Lebanon, who opened chain of restaurants in support of president, says charges ‘not true’