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Jan 21, 2025 | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Peter Baker |Michael Shear
By Peter Baker and Michael D. ShearPresident Joe Biden granted a wave of preemptive pardons in his final hours in office Monday to guard members of his own family and other high-profile figures from a promised campaign of “retribution” by his incoming successor, Donald Trump.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Patrick Kingsley |Adam Rasgon |Aaron Boxerman |Ronen Bergman |Isabel Kershner |Peter Baker
JERUSALEM — Negotiators announced Wednesday that they had reached a ceasefire deal for the war in the Gaza Strip, 15 months after a devastating Hamas-led attack on Israeli soil set off a relentless military campaign with few parallels in recent history. In the attack that set it all in motion, the Oct. 7, 2023, raid on southern Israel led by Hamas fighters, some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed, stunning Israelis.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Peter Baker
WASHINGTON — President Biden kicked off his final week in office Monday with a robust defense of his foreign policy, arguing in a speech that America had grown stronger on his watch. With just seven days left until he hands over the White House to President-elect Donald Trump, Biden hopes to use his remaining time to frame his historical legacy as a transformational leader who bolstered the United States at home and abroad even in just one term.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Peter Baker
WASHINGTON — They did not think much of each other at first. They crisscrossed the country for months, warning voters that the other one should not be trusted with power. Their campaign was as bitter as any of the era and ended in one of the closest elections in modern times. And then, against all odds, against all political logic, Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford actually became friends.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Peter Baker
Biden’s decision to use the extraordinary power of executive clemency to wipe out his son’s convictions on gun and tax charges came despite repeated statements by him and his aides that he would not do so.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
business-standard.com | Peter Baker
In her closing rally on the Ellipse last week, Kamala Harris scorned Donald Trump as an outlier who did not represent America. "That is not who we are," she declared. In fact, it turns out, that may be exactly who we are. At least most of us.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Peter Baker
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has secretly spoken with President Vladimir Putin of Russia as many as seven times since leaving office, even as he was pressuring Republicans to block military aid to Ukraine to fight Russian invaders, according to a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
business-standard.com | Mark Mazzetti |Anton Troianovski |Michael Shear |Peter Baker
A turning point came on June 25, when a group of CIA officers sat across from their Russian counterparts during a secret meeting in a Middle Eastern capital. The Americans floated a proposal: An exchange of two dozen prisoners sitting in jails in Russia, the United States and scattered across Europe, a far bigger and more complex deal than either side had previously contemplated but one that would give both Moscow and Western nations more reasons to say yes.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
staradvertiser.com | Peter Baker |Michael Shear |Katie Rogers
WASHINGTON >> Sick with COVID and abandoned by allies, President Joe Biden has been fuming at his Delaware beach house, increasingly resentful about what he sees as an orchestrated campaign to drive him out of the race and bitter toward some of those he once considered close, including his onetime running mate Barack Obama.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Roger Cohen |Peter Baker |Peter Baker
NORMANDY, France — In the sunlight of Normandy, before the surviving American veterans who eight decades ago helped turn the tide of the war against Adolf Hitler, President Emmanuel Macron of France spoke this past week of the “bond of blood shed for liberty” that ties his country to the United States. It is a bond that goes all the way back to the founding of the United States in 1776 and the decisive French support for American independence against the British.
