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Jan 19, 2025 | 
seattletimes.com | Peter Baker
WASHINGTON — More than 30 miles of anti-scale fencing are being erected all over the nation’s capital. Concrete barriers are being placed at key junctures. Certain roads have already been closed to traffic. Surveillance drones will flood the skies. But if Washington looks like a war zone again, it does not necessarily feel that way.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
seattletimes.com | Peter Baker
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden acknowledged in a new interview released Wednesday that he might not have had the vitality to serve another four years in office, even as he insisted that he could have won reelection had he stayed in the race.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
mahoningmatters.com | Peter Baker |NYT Washington
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden acknowledged in a new interview released Wednesday that he might not have had the vitality to serve another four years in office, even as he insisted that he could have won reelection had he stayed in the race.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Peter Baker
On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage, beginning a 444-day crisis that would define the final year of Jimmy Carter’s presidency — and scar him and the American public. The crisis had its origins in the Iranian revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and Carter’s reluctant agreement to let Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the exiled Shah of Iran, travel to the United States for cancer treatment.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
charlotteobserver.com | Peter Baker
President Joe Biden delivers remarks about Syria in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. Biden announced on Sunday that United States military forces have been conducting airstrikes in Syria to keep the Islamic State from reasserting itself in the aftermath of the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's government.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
estadao.com.br | Peter Baker |Erica Green
WASHINGTON - A equipe do presidente Joe Biden está debatendo se ele deve emitir perdões gerais para um grupo de inimigos percebidos do presidente eleito Donald Trump para protegê-los da “retribuição” que ele ameaçou após assumir o cargo, de acordo com pessoas familiarizadas com a discussão.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
estadao.com.br | Peter Baker
O presidente dos Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, e o presidente eleito Donald Trump agora concordam em uma coisa: o Departamento de Justiça de Biden foi politizado. Ao perdoar seu filho Hunter Biden na noite de domingo, o presidente em exercício se pareceu muito com seu sucessor ao reclamar de processos seletivos e pressão política, questionando a justiça de um sistema que Biden havia defendido por muito tempo até agora.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Peter Baker
President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump now agree on one thing: The Biden Justice Department has been politicized. In pardoning his son Hunter Biden on Sunday night, the incumbent president sounded a lot like his successor by complaining about selective prosecution and political pressure, questioning the fairness of a system that Joe Biden had until now long defended.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Peter Baker
WASHINGTON — Somehow disruption doesn’t begin to cover it. Upheaval might be closer. Revolution maybe. In less than two weeks since being elected again, Donald Trump has embarked on a new campaign to shatter the institutions of Washington as no incoming president has in his lifetime. He has rolled a giant grenade into the middle of the nation’s capital and watched with mischievous glee to see who runs away and who throws themselves on it.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
estadao.com.br | Peter Baker
O presidente eleito Donald Trump não está perdendo tempo em enfrentar as três instituições do governo que mais frustraram suas ambições políticas durante seu primeiro mandato, deixando claro que não irá tolerar resistência desta vez.
