US President Joe Biden called on banking regulators Thursday to reinstate tougher rules on midsized banks, saying that doing so would prevent future failures like that of Silicon Valley Bank. While his predecessor Donald Trump eased rules for banks with between $100 billion and $250 billion in assets, Biden urged regulators to instead consider a set of reforms to “reduce …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday suspended Moscow’s participation in a nuclear arms treaty with Washington, as United States President Joe Biden vowed in a rival speech that Russia would never win in Ukraine. In his state of the nation address ahead of the first anniversary of the campaign in Ukraine, Putin also accused the West of escalating the conflict …

United States President Joe Biden on Thursday called for calm after five police officers were charged in the beating to death of a Black man following a traffic stop and said he backed “peaceful protest”. “As Americans grieve, the Department of Justice conducts its investigation, and state authorities continue their work, I join Tyre’s family in calling for peaceful protest,” …

Following a week of storms that claimed 12 lives in the state of California, United States President Joe Biden has approved the designation of national emergency. Biden stated that the emergency designation will provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) permission to coordinate disaster relief operations and mobilize emergency resources. In the past 10 days, severe weather spawned violent wind …