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Biden donors, friends and former aides expected on first slate of high-profile ambassadors Tyler Pager, Anne Gearan © Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post Then-candidate Joe Biden with then-Sen. Kamala D. Harris and Cindy McCain in Arizona in October. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) President Biden is expected to begin naming his choices for high-profile ambassador postings in May or possibly as soon as this week, several people familiar with White House plans said...

Biden donors, friends, and former aides expected on first slate of high-profile ambassadors By Tyler Pager and Anne Gearan The Washington Post,Updated April 27, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend President Biden spoke about COVID-19 vaccinations, in the Eisenhower Executive Office building at the White House complex in Washington on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.Al Drago/NYT WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is expected to begin naming his choices for high-profile ambassador postings in May or poss...

The Daily 202: Experts assess Biden on the pandemic, the border and bringing ‘normal’ back Olivier Knox with Mariana Alfaro Welcome to The Daily 202 newsletter! One year ago today, the U.S. passed 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.  But with President Biden poised to mark the occasion with his first speech to a joint session of Congress, The Daily 202 reached out to a handful of experts to get their sense of how he h...

1 shares Deputy US Secretary of State for Management and Resources Thomas Nides speaks at a USAID conference in June 2012. (Screenshot: YouTube) Former State Department official Thomas Nides has emerged as the likely nominee for the next US ambassador to Israel, the Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing several people familiar with White House plans on the matter. The report also named other likely picks as top diplomats by US President Joe Biden’s administration. Born in 1961 to a...

Immigration remains a soft spot, though.

Joe Biden struggles to choose UK ambassador as no clear frontrunner emerges President keen to appoint someone with diplomatic experience for most important post Bob Iger, the executive chairman of Disney, could be considered for the post Credit: AP Joe Biden is struggling to decide on who to nominate as US ambassador to the UK amid "intense competition" for the role. The US president has decided on nominees for the European Union, Nato, France, Belgium, Japan and Canada and will announce them o...

Former top State Department official is Biden’s leading contender to be US ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, a former US ambassador and senior State Department official, is the leading contender for US ambassador to China, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. The Biden administration wants to fill the role with someone who has extensive diplomatic experience and Burns meets that criteria, the sources said, but noted that announcements on any ambassador nominations are lik...

Nick Burns, a former US ambassador and senior State Department official, is the leading contender for US ambassador to China, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

Can Joe Biden save America? FDR wrote the playbook the new president needs—and he’s been studying it closely Biden saw Camelot before him on his election as one of the youngest ever senators in 1972, hoping to be the next JFK only nine years after the man himself had been shot. Joe had dashing good looks, a glamorous young wife, and three beautiful children. Then days later a truck smashed into Neilia Biden’s Chevrolet as she was on her way to buy a Christmas tree. Neilia and baby Naomi w...

The recipe produced a kid at once charming and determined, a stutterer who got bullied and worked like a mule to overcome his speech impediment. He could be daring, a bit of a show-off, yet friends were eager to be near him. He could be a lot of fun. At age 10, Joey invented a game at a construction site where a local college was building an arts centre. He’d climb atop six-story-high steel beams, edge out on to 18-inch-wide girders, grab a rope and swing out into the open sky. “Joe Biden...