Lauren Egan

The president-elect has just started filling the approximately 200 foreign posts.

The president’s spokesperson, meanwhile, offered little explanation as to why the president changed his mind.

In a speech from the Brazilian rainforest, the president didn’t mention his successor by name, but urged him to build upon a “strong foundation” of clean-energy policies.

Biden visits Amazon to shore up limited global climate record

In their final meeting before Donald Trump takes office, Biden also urged Xi to push North Korea to curb support for Russia’s war on Ukraine and signaled progress in moves to free unjustly jailed U.S. citizens in China.

Biden hoped his final APEC and G20 summits as president would be a capstone to his foreign policy career. Instead, he faces questions about Trump’s return.

The meeting in Peru is Biden and Xi’s last chance to signal the value of ongoing high-level U.S.-China communication — dialogues it isn’t clear a Trump administration will continue.

The state remains on the knife's edge.

Take a Xanax everybody

Kamala tries to stick the landing