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Proposed insurance rule ignites debate over transgender health care

WASHINGTON — Private insurance companies, patient advocacy groups and conservative organizations are at odds over a proposal to limit discrimination by health plans for medical care for transgender people and other LGBTQ consumers.

Tribune News Service

Saudi Arabia Pushes for Oil Market Balance, Stability

Saudi Arabia is exerting strenuous efforts to achieve the stability of the oil sector in the global economy, experts told Asharq Al-Awsat. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz stressed, during a telephone call with US President Joe Biden on Wednesday, the importance of maintaining the balance…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Biden to pay portion of $7bn seized from Afghanistan to 9/11 victims and families

The Taliban are opposed

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Biden to split frozen Afghan funds for 9/11 victims, relief

President Joe Biden is expected to use executive authority to move some $7 billion of the Afghan central bank’s assets frozen in the American funding system to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

The Independent UK

Protesters defy injunction order, continue to occupy key U.S.-Canada bridge

Protesters opposing pandemic restrictions flouted a court order and emergency rules, continuing to occupy a vital Canada-U.S. trade corridor early on Saturday, hours after a judge granted an injunction to end the blockade that has crippled North America's well-knitted auto industry.

Reuters

EU threatens sanctions on Russia’s financial, energy sectors in event of Ukraine invasion

EU sanctions would target Russia’s financial and energy sectors if Moscow opts to invade Ukraine, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Friday. The UK, US and Estonia also urged their nationals to leave Ukraine as Russia prepared to hold fresh military exercises near the two countries’ border and…

France 24

Commentary: The racist ‘crack pipe’ panic and the White House’s shameful capitulation

“Anybody want a crack pipe with their fourth booster? Biden will hook you up.”

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US warns Russia could invade ‘at any time’ as countries urge citizens to leave Ukraine

Joe Biden to talk to allies

The Independent UK

Situation in Myanmar is "deeply troubling" - Blinken

The junta in Myanmar has doubled down on repression and violence, and U.S. President Joe Biden will focus on the situation there when he meets with ASEAN leaders, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.

Reuters

Commentary: The GOP’s plan to steal the 2024 election

To win in 2024, the Republican presidential candidate must recapture three of the five states that flipped from Donald Trump in 2016 to Joe Biden in 2020. With this goal in mind, GOP legislatures in these states have muscled through dozens of voter suppression bills on party-line votes.

Tribune News Service

Why the US looks back 17 years to set its climate goals

Consider the Biden administration’s central climate goal: cut domestic greenhouse gas emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030, then zero out emissions by 2050.

Tribune News Service

US urges Canada to end Freedom Convoy truckers’ blockade

Canada’s government should use its federal powers to bring an end to the blockade of truckers in protest of Covid curbs, the Biden administration said.

Evening Standard

Joe Biden urges Americans to leave Ukraine now

Joe Biden has warned Americans in Ukraine should leave the region now.

Evening Standard

Biden accused of lashing out as he calls NBC’s Lester Holt a ‘wise guy’ over Super Bowl interview

TV anchor pointed out that Joe Biden had said high inflation would only be temporary, but it has surged to new 40-year-high

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Quad Ministers Address Indo-Pacific ‘Coercion’, Climate, COVID

The United States, Australia, Japan and India on Friday pledged to deepen cooperation to ensure the Indo-Pacific region was free from "coercion", a thinly-veiled swipe at China's growing economic and military expansion, as their top diplomats convened to also tackle climate change, COVID and other threats. Foreign ministers of the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Biden Urges Americans to Leave Ukraine as Fears of Russian Invasion Mount

US President Joe Biden urged Americans Thursday to immediately leave Ukraine, as Russia's live-fire drills and build-up of troops around the ex-Soviet state deepened fears of an invasion. Washington-Moscow tensions are at their highest since the Cold War, with some US estimates saying some 130,000 Russian soldiers are grouped in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Condemns Terrorist Attack on Abha, Vows to Hold Houthis to Account

The United States condemned on Thursday the terrorist attack carried out by the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen against Saudi Arabia's Abha International Airport. US national security advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement: "The Houthis have claimed responsibility for this attack, and we will work with our Saudi and…

The Independent UK

Most Americans don’t approve of Biden’s job in office, new poll finds

President is approaching historic levels of popular disapproval

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Axios

Biden urges Americans in Ukraine: "Leave now"

"It's a very different situation and things could go crazy quickly," he told NBC.

France 24

White House presses Canada to intervene against border blockade as copycat protests spread

The Biden administration urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government Thursday to use its federal powers to end the truck blockade by Canadians protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, as the bumper-to-bumper demonstration forced auto plants on both sides of the border to shut down or scale back production.

Los Angeles Times

Biden to meet with potential Supreme Court nominees ‘soon,’ senator says

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden told a group of Senate Democrats on Thursday that he will meet with potential Supreme Court nominees “soon.”

Tribune News Service

Biden’s State of the Union speech to have limited attendance

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address will be delivered to a limited audience in the U.S. Capitol under similar pandemic-related restrictions as last year, according to an official familiar with the arrangements.

The Independent UK

Biden tells US citizens to leave Ukraine as Blinken warns of imminent invasion

President warned that US troops would not help rescue fleeing people

Axios

Biden praised for Ukraine strategy by Republicans, establishment

Many of the same Republicans and columnists blasted Biden for his Afghanistan withdrawal.

Reuters

U.S. presses Canada on border blockage, braces for potential Super Bowl disruptions

The Biden administration on Thursday urged Canada to use federal powers to ease the disruption at the U.S.-Canada border caused by a protest against anti-coronavirus mandates that has blocked a vital U.S.-Canada trade route, a White House official said.

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