The Commerce Department is banning China Telecom in the U.S., a move that appears unlikely to deter Beijing from conducting sophisticated cyberoperations.

Image President Joe Biden speaks at the Intel Ocotillo Campus in Chandler, Ariz. A Commerce Department memo argued that China’s chip expansion posed a threat to chip facilities the U.S. government is investing in.Credit...Tom Brenner for The New York ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The Biden administration on Monday announced a last-minute trade investigation into Chinese-made "legacy" semiconductors that could heap more U.S. tariffs on chips from China that power everyday goods from autos to washing machines to telecoms gear.

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President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.

As he leaves the White House, President Joe Biden isn’t forgetting Christmas gifts to China. This week he announced new Paris Agreement targets to reduce greenhouse gases and he issued a waiver to California to attempt to do away with the American internal combustion engine.

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly every man on federal death row, but Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not included on the list.

The Chinese government is protesting the latest American announcements of military sales and assistance to Taiwan, warning the United States that it is “playing with fire.”

President Joe Biden has approved a new national security memorandum that could serve as a road map for the incoming Trump administration as it looks to counter growing cooperation among China, Iran, N

President Joe Biden on Dec. 12 announced a single-day record of 1,499 sentences commuted, along with 39 pardons of nonviolent offenders. Some critics later expressed outrage over what they said was the pardon of Chinese spies and a sex offender.

President Joe Biden is pushing U.S. national security agencies ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration to devise new strategies to tackle the risky, deepening ties among Russia, Iran, North Korea and China,

Greenland is not for sale, its elected leader said on Monday, responding to comments made by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump regarding the 'ownership and control' of the vast Arctic island that has been part of Denmark for over 600 years.