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Whitaker first took over the Justice Department on an acting basis during Trump’s first term in office in Nov. 2018, right after the midterm elections, when Trump announced on Twitter that Whitaker would be succeeding Jeff Sessions, whom Trump asked to resign.

NOTE: President Biden’s news conference can be seen in the above video player. President Joe Biden will hold a news conference Thursday, the key event in a monumental week during which the Democratic incumbent is fending off calls for him to step aside as the party’s presumptive nominee following a shaky debate performance. It’s just the type of event that many political watchers...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams will be among a group of Democratic mayors meeting virtually with President Joe Biden Tuesday as he works to build support as his party’s presumptive nominee ahead of its convention next month.

NATO leaders gathering in Washington starting Tuesday plan to shore up transatlantic support for Ukraine in its battle against Russia. But for host President Joe Biden, the summit has become just as much about demonstrating he is capable of meeting the grinding demands of the presidency for four more years. Heads of state from Europe and North America are confronting…

President Joe Biden and his Western counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO.

At a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Friday, President Joe Biden responded to speculation that he might drop out of the presidential race.

Ukraine may have gotten support and vague assurances from NATO leaders in Vilnius this week, but ultimately it received no clear commitment that it will be joining the club any time soon.

President Joe Biden will close out his five-day trip to Europe on Thursday standing alongside Nordic leaders.

NATO leaders have wrapped up a two-day summit with pledges of long-term support for Ukraine but no offer of membership yet.

President Joe Biden spoke from the NATO summit in Lithuania on Wednesday, praising the alliance for its defense of Ukraine against the Russian invasion. “[Putin] was betting NATO would break apart… He thought wrong.”

NATO leaders say they will allow Ukraine to join the alliance “when allies agree and conditions are met.” The plan emerged Tuesday at the annual NATO summit in Lithuania. It came just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted the organization’s failure to set a timetable for his country as “absurd.” Although many NATO members have funneled arms and ammunition...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to send Sweden’s NATO accession protocol to the Turkish Parliament “as soon as possible.”

Sweden gave up a history of non-alignment to apply to join NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Turkey accuses Sweden of being too lenient toward groups that Ankara says pose a security threat.

An air deployment exercise billed as the biggest in NATO’s history and hosted by Germany is getting underway.