
Biden says international support for him is strong despite domestic struggles
CNN
President Joe Biden told reporters during his first news conference in months that he was encouraged by how he was received at this weekend's Group of 20 Leadership Summit in Rome, dismissing concerns that allies might not take solace in his pledge to turn the page from his predecessor, former President Donald Trump.
"They listened. Everyone sought me out. They wanted to know what our views were, and we helped lead what happened here," Biden said of other world leaders Sunday evening. "We got significant support here. ... The United States of America is the most critical part of this entire agenda."
Back in Washington, however, the President's ambitious legislative agenda is stalling in Congress. And in Virginia, Biden-backed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe faces a tough election on Tuesday

Hundreds of Border Patrol officers are mobilizing to bolster the president’s crackdown on immigration in snowy Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US on Saturday, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.

Since early December the US Coast Guard and other military branches have boarded and taken control of five oil ships that had previously been sanctioned, all either accused of being in the process of transporting Venezuelan oil or on their way to take on oil that has been subject to US sanctions since President Donald Trump began a pressure campaign against the leadership of the country during his first term.










