USA

WASHINGTON (AP) — They are two tiny Caribbean states whose intractable problems have vexed U.S. presidents for decades. Now, Haiti and Cuba are suddenly posing a growing challenge for President Joe Biden that could have political ramifications for him in the battleground state of Florida.

WASHINGTON, July 13. /TASS/: Russia needs neither services nor assistance of the United States, but demands respect in order to build mutually beneficial relations, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov told students of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey via a video link-up.

"We don’t need any special services or assistance of the US, but for building mutually beneficial relations we demand respect," the diplomat stressed. "We expect that our interests will be taken into account."

WASHINGTON, Jul 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), added a new warning on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine yesterday, saying, the vaccine has been linked to a serious but rare side effect called Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Guillain Barre syndrome is a neurological disorder, in which the body’s immune system damages nerve cells, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis, according to FDA.

13 July 2021; MEMO: In his blistering resignation letter to Harvard University, Dr Cornell West, one of America's leading public intellectuals, cited the administration's "anti-Palestinian prejudice" as one of the main reasons for departing after four years of teaching. West is expected to return to Union Theological Seminary, where he first taught 44 years ago.

WASHINGTON, July 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday invited a group of mayors and police chiefs from across the country for a meeting at the White House, where they discussed actions that could be taken to tackle the surging gun violence crimes.

Also at the meeting held in the Roosevelt Room was Attorney General Merrick Garland, with whom Biden said he had spent "a long time" on curbing gun-related violence.

"Most of my career has been on this issue," the president claimed at one time during the meeting.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called protests in Cuba “remarkable” and a “clarion call for freedom,” praising thousands of Cubans who took the streets to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis — one of the island’s biggest antigovernment demonstrations in recent memory.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildfires that torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate burned across 10 parched Western states on Tuesday, and the largest, in Oregon, threatened California’s power supply.

Nearly 60 wildfires tore through bone-dry timber and brush from Alaska to Wyoming, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Arizona, Idaho and Montana accounted for more than half of the large active fires.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will lay out the “moral case” for voting rights as he faces growing pressure from civil rights activists and other Democrats to combat efforts by Republican-led state legislatures to restrict access to the ballot.

Biden has declared that protecting voting rights was the central cause of his presidency, but the White House has taken sharp criticism from allies for not doing more while contending with political headwinds and stubborn Senate math that have greatly restricted its ability to act.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emerging from a private meeting at the White House, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he and President Joe Biden are on the same page as Democrats draft a “transformative” infrastructure package unleashing more than $3.5 trillion in domestic investments on par with the New Deal of the 1930s.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats in the Texas Legislature bolted Monday for Washington, and said they were ready to remain there for weeks in a second revolt against a GOP overhaul of election laws, forcing a dramatic new showdown over voting rights in America.