Biden Calls GOP Tactics ‘Sick’, Suez is Blocked: Weekend Reads
The Ever Given vessel stuck in the Suez Canal on March 26.
Source: Maxar Technologies
U.S. President Joe Biden showed little interest in finding common ground on voting issues, as Republican state legislatures across the country moved to restrict access to the ballot box following his electoral victory.
“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is,” Biden said at his first formal press conference since taking office. “It’s sick.”
The arrest of a Black Georgia state lawmaker on Thursday as she sought to enter the governor’s closed-door signing of a sweeping election law fanned anger over the issue.
China started a boycott campaign of western companies after the U.S., U.K., Canada and the European Union imposed sanctions over its alleged human-rights abuses against the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region.
The 200,000-ton Ever Given container vessel blocked the Suez Canal, threatening disruptions across global supply chains from oil to grains to cars.
Dig deeper into these and other topics with this edition of Weekend Reads.