Day: June 18, 2024
President Joe Biden announces a new policy that would protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation, according to administration officials.
Also in the programme: Kenyan’s government scraps a financial bill amid violent protests; and a citizens group has decided how the fortune of an Austro-German heiress will be given away.
(Photo: President Joe Biden during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. Credit: Reuters).
We are just weeks away from one of the biggest political events of the election campaign season: the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Former President Donald Trump is, of course, the party’s presumptive nominee, but he’s yet to announce his running mate.
The list is long, but the candidates all have one thing in common — they’re being considered because they could help Trump get elected in November.
NPR’s Franco Ordoñez and Jeongyoon Han break down which candidates are rising to the top and why it matters.
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The chipmaker blew past Microsoft and Apple on an otherwise subdued trading day, bringing major U.S. indexes higher along with it. Danny Lewis hosts.
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