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President Joe Biden's pick for a top international trade post is the cofounder of a Beltway consulting firm that took millions from the companies behind "Putin's pipeline" and helped find investment opportunities for Chinese tycoons.

The US Secretary of State had little success during his latest attempt to reduce the horror in Gaza, but the dangers of a wider war are too great not to try.

But he also stressed Thursday the United States would continue defending Saudi Arabia against attacks. “Saudi Arabia faces missile attacks, [drone] strikes and other threats from Iranian supplied forces in multiple countries,” Biden said. “Were going to continue to support and help Saudi Arabia defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity and its people.” What US has been doing: The United States has been providing logistics and military support to a Saudi Arabia-led military coali...

Overnight Defense: Biden announces end to US support for offensive operations in Yemen | Pentagon orders mask-wearing indoors and out | Military COVID deaths mounting Ellen Mitchell © Getty Images Overnight Defense: Biden announces end to US support for offensive operations in Yemen | Pentagon orders mask-wearing indoors and out | Military COVID deaths mounting Happy Thursday and welcome to Overnight Defense. Im Ellen Mitchell, and heres your nightly guide to the latest devel...

Will Joe Biden be sucked into Big Techs lobbyist revolving door? The President-elect has recruited Silicon Valley insiders to help him pick his team, sparking fears of a cosy alliance with tech giants 26 December 2020 • 6:00am In ordinary times, the transfer of power from one US president to another would be a decidedly personal affair. Joe Biden and his advisers would select their White House team via huddled meetings, sit-down interviews and chance encounters with old friends in Washington,...

Dec. 10, 2020 Credit...Illustration by The New York Times; photographs by Doug Mills/The New York Times, Anna Moneymaker and Hilary Swift for The New York Times This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. President-elect Joe Biden took the extraordinary step this week of asking Congress to confirm a recently retired general, Lloyd Austin, as his secretary of defense. To get his way, Mr. Biden will need Congress to waive a 1947 federal law...

Biden tapping Washington’s ‘revolving door’ for aides World December 10, 2020 US President-elect Joe Biden didn’t go far for his choice of defence secretary: former army general Lloyd Austin came from the same inside-the-Beltway consultants as Biden’s secretary of state, intelligence chief and White House communications head. Biden’s recruitment of at least a half-dozen people from a single high-powered firm, WestExec Advisers, to run his foreign and security policies, has raised ...