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Who is Joe Biden

Joe Biden is an American politician and also the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009. He contested the 2020 Presidential polls against Donald Trump, along with Kamala Harris as his running mate.

Biden, 77, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942. In 1972, at the age 29, he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the US Senate. He went on to serve as a six-term senator from Delaware.
 
His early presidential activity centered around proposing, lobbying for, and signing into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to speed up the United States' recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession, as well as a series of executive orders. Biden's orders addressed the pandemic and reversed several Trump administration policies, which included rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate change and reaffirming protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. In April 2021, Biden announced the withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan by September 2021.

Joe Biden's early life
 
Biden was born November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1961. Biden has a stutter, which has improved since his early twenties. He says he reduced it by reciting poetry before a mirror. On August 27, 1966, Biden married Neilia Hunter (1942–1972), a student at Syracuse University. In 1968, Biden earned a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law. In 1969, Biden practiced law first as a public defender and then at a firm headed by a locally active Democrat who named him to the Democratic Forum, a group trying to reform and revitalize the state party.
 
In 1970, Biden ran for the 4th district seat on the New Castle County Council on a liberal platform that included support for public housing in the suburbs. He won the general election by defeating Republican Lawrence T Messick, and took office on January 5, 1971. In 1972, Biden defeated Republican incumbent J Caleb Boggs to become the junior US senator from Delaware. At the time of his election, he was still 29 years old, but reached the constitutionally required age of 30 before he was sworn in as Senator. On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after the election, Biden's wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware. The accident had filled him with anger and religious doubt. Biden’s oldest son, Beau, died of brain cancer in 2015.
 
Biden credits his second wife, teacher Jill Tracy Jacobs, with the renewal of his interest in politics and life.
 
Joe Biden's political life
 
Joe Biden’s life in politics has been marked from its inception by its seismographic lurching from success to setback. Victories were followed by unthinkable personal tragedy. Self-inflicted wounds crippled nascent campaigns. And yet he has survived—36 years in the Senate, eight years in the Obama administration—becoming along the way the ultimate political wingman and the nation’s unofficial consoler in chief. 
 
In 1987, he ran for president for the first time. He quit the race after it was revealed he incorporated into a speech of his parts of a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock—falsely referring to ancestors of his who worked in the coal mines.
 
In 2008, Biden ran for president a second time but dropped out after coming in fifth in the Iowa caucus. Seven months later, Barack Obama selected him as his running mate.
 
He considered running for president in 2016, but Obama persuaded him not to, believing Hillary Clinton had a better chance to defeat the Republican nominee.
 
2020 US Presidential elections
 
On April 25, 2019, Biden announced his candidacy for President of the United States. Biden’s candidacy was built from the beginning around 3 pillars: the battle for the soul of our nation, the need to rebuild our middle class — the backbone of our country, and a call for unity, to act as One America. It was a message that would only gain more resonance in 2020 as we confront a pandemic, an economic crisis, urgent calls for racial justice, and the existential threat of climate change.
 

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A massive wildfire in Los Angeles, fueled by fierce Santa Ana winds, has forced 30,000 people to evacuate, threatening over 13,000 structures and causing widespread chaos

Updated On: 08 Jan 2025 | 2:38 PM IST

The Justice Department argued in a brief filed with a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia that the government would be irreparably harmed if the guilty pleas were accepted

Updated On: 08 Jan 2025 | 9:15 AM IST

His statement comes a day after Trudeau announced that he will be stepping down as Canada's PM and Liberal Party leader

Updated On: 08 Jan 2025 | 9:03 AM IST

Instead of pursuing cases with tenuous jurisdiction and limited relevance to the US interests, the DOJ should focus on punishing bad actors at home, rather than chasing rumours abroad, he said

Updated On: 08 Jan 2025 | 8:55 AM IST

In separate notices sent to Congress, the State Department said it was moving $95 million in military assistance intended for Egypt and $7.5 million for Israel toward supporting the Lebanese army

Updated On: 08 Jan 2025 | 8:42 AM IST

Trump said Biden's effort part of a series of final actions in office by the Democrat's administration was undermining his plans for once he's in office

Updated On: 08 Jan 2025 | 8:26 AM IST

Biden's administration is seeking the return of three Americans seized in 2022 - Ryan Corbett, George Glezmann and Mahmood Habibi - in exchange for Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani

Updated On: 07 Jan 2025 | 7:06 PM IST

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan visited India from January 5-6 for his final overseas trip before leaving office

Updated On: 07 Jan 2025 | 1:21 PM IST

Biden has made dozens of visits to sites of violence, natural disaster and other calamities during his four years in office

Updated On: 07 Jan 2025 | 12:25 PM IST

Trump, 78, is slated to be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on January 20. He replaces Biden as the new occupant of the White House

Updated On: 07 Jan 2025 | 10:43 AM IST

During the meeting, PM Modi recalled his meetings with Biden, including during his visit to the US for Quad Leaders' Summit in September last year

Updated On: 07 Jan 2025 | 8:27 AM IST

The iCET was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden in May 2022 with an aim to forge greater collaboration between India and the US in areas of critical technologies

Updated On: 06 Jan 2025 | 9:18 PM IST

Second lawsuit is against Cleveland-Cliffs, its CEO Lourenco Goncalves, and USW union President David McCall "for their illegal and coordinated actions" aimed at preventing the deal

Updated On: 06 Jan 2025 | 6:05 PM IST

'We should be proud that our democracy withstood this assault' Biden wrote, 'and we should be glad we will not see such a shameful attack again this year'

Updated On: 06 Jan 2025 | 11:23 AM IST

Social Security Fairness Act will boost Social Security payments to more than 2.5 million retirees - some by as much as $550 a month- by changing formulas used to reduce benefits for certain beneficia

Updated On: 06 Jan 2025 | 7:29 AM IST

On Friday, Biden said he was stopping the Nippon takeover after federal regulators deadlocked on whether to approve it

Updated On: 05 Jan 2025 | 11:39 PM IST

The Congressional Research Service estimated that in December 2023, there were 745,679 people, about 1 per cent of all Social Security beneficiaries

Updated On: 05 Jan 2025 | 9:04 PM IST

With around two weeks left in the Biden administration before Donald Trump takes office, the awards sparked controversy, particularly with recipients such as Hillary Clinton and George Soros

Updated On: 05 Jan 2025 | 11:10 PM IST

Former president Bill Clinton, several of his Cabinet members including Defense Secretary Loyd Austin along with several celebrities were present in the East Room of the White House

Updated On: 05 Jan 2025 | 6:53 AM IST

The sale includes medium-range air-to-air missiles to help Israel defend against airborne threats, 155 mm projectile artillery shells for long-range targeting, Hellfire AGM-114 missiles, and more

Updated On: 04 Jan 2025 | 10:42 PM IST