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Beyonce dropped a new song called “Formation” without any warning Saturday night. She also shared an incredible music video to go with it, causing fans of Queen Bey to lose their minds. Just when you thought you had caught up with all of the Beyonce news, another bombshell dropped. MORE: Super Bowl celebs | Sneak peek at Super Bowl commercials The 34-year-old singer will perform “Formation” at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show, according to Entertainment Tonight....

Xi’s tour into the heart of Asia, first to Kazakhstan and then Uzbekistan, where the summit is being held, marks his first trip abroad in nearly 1,000 days. And, at a time of international unrest stemming from crises over Taiwan and Ukraine, both backed by the U.S. in challenges to China and Russia, respectively, Beijing is looking to sow the seeds of a new security order in Asia. “With its economic and proxy war against Russia and increasingly provocative actions against China, countries around the world can no longer avoid acknowledging the U....

MORE: WWE 24 review: Keith Lee is much more than meets the eye in emotional documentary Despite not growing up as a fan of pro wrestling, Belair has found her purpose as a WWE Superstar and makes an effort to use her platform to make a difference in the world. The EST of WWE began her journey as a track and field athlete, picking up All-SEC and All-American honors in track and field at the University of Tennessee before entering CrossFit and powerlifting competitions....

During remarks to the press amid the destruction of Fort Myers, Florida, Biden discussed the natural disasters he has witnessed across the country over the past few months, including wildfires, flooding and historic droughts. “The one thing [the hurricane] has finally ended is the discussion about whether or not there’s climate change, and we should do something about it,” he said. Biden said the “historic, titanic and unimaginable” storm ripped Fort Myers to pieces....

“There is no way to get out of Afghanistan after 20 years easily. Not possible, no matter when you did it. I make no apologies for what I did,” Biden said. Amid the withdrawal, the Biden administration scrambled to evacuate troops and Afghan allies who aided the U.S. during its occupation. The U.S. evacuated somewhere between 13,000 to 18,000 people per day to meet the Aug. 31, 2021, withdrawal deadline....

Both on the campaign trail in 2020 and after becoming president-elect, Biden expressed support for canceling $10,000 of student debt per borrower. Some Democrats have urged him to do so through executive action. However, the president has expressed uncertainty that he has the necessary authority to cancel debt without legislation and the administration asked the Department of Education in April to examine the matter and issue a memo. That memo was never formally released and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki suggested this week that the president’s power to cancel student debt was still under review....

California Senator Kamala Harris will become the first woman to serve as vice president when Biden takes office. In addition to becoming the highest-ranking female elected official, she will be the first Asian-American and first Black vice president. Harris is both a politician and licensed attorney and established her career in California, where she was born. Prior to joining the U.S. Senate in 2017, she served as San Francisco’s district attorney, and later as California’s attorney general....

Raimondo’s remarks came just days after the Biden Administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Games due to human rights concerns, prompting other nations, including Canada, Australia, the U.K., and Lithuania, to follow suit. “What individual companies do is entirely up to them. We’re not going to pressure them one way or another,” Raimondo told an editorial board with Bloomberg reporters and editors on Thursday. “So if a company decides—as many have—that they want to make a statement against human rights abuses, then that would be great....

“Unduly restricting the ability of Nigerians to report, gather, and disseminate opinions and information has no place in a democracy,” U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement to reporters Thursday. “Freedom of expression and access to information both online and offline are foundational to prosperous and secure democratic societies.” Nigeria indefinitely suspended Twitter’s operations in the country last week and has threatened to prosecute Nigerians who seek out alternative ways of using the platform, after the company removed a post from Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari that it flagged as abusive and temporarily froze his account....

The agreements, details of which White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed during a Monday news conference, represent the latest attempts by President Joe Biden’s administration to mitigate the influx of migrants trying to enter the country through the U.S.-Mexico border. Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras each agreed to heighten troop presence along their borders as part of the agreements, Psaki told reporters. Mexico will keep 10,000 troops along its southern border, which Psaki said could lead to double the daily number of encounters between migrants and Mexican authorities....

Running against Al Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush promised to introduce a level of humility in how America did business around the world. Barack Obama, facing a nation exhausted by two major conflicts in the Middle East, was elected in part to bring those conflicts to a close and pivot U.S. military and diplomatic resources away from the region. Donald Trump distinguished himself in the 2016 campaign as someone who would end the colossal waste of U....

That’s according to a new poll from Politico/Morning Consult released Wednesday. When asked to grade the first year of Biden’s term, 37 percent of respondents gave him the “failing” mark. Twelve percent of those surveyed gave Biden a “D” grade, 18 percent gave him a “C,” and 20 percent said he deserved a “B.” Just 11 percent of voters said the job he has done is worthy of an “A” mark, or “excellent....

The Biden-Harris logo was projected onto the Trump International Hotel & Tower on Saturday, as part of a campaign by the United Steelworkers union to get workers to vote this November 3, NBC Chicago reported. The words “Biden Harris” appeared in gigantic blue letters across one of the Trump Tower’s sections, with the United Steelworkers logo underneath. “We didn’t?! We did!! And it felt so good. (The most action that sad, half-empty building’s seen in a while....

Speaking with Univision’s Ilia Calderón on Tuesday, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris mentioned a sweeping immigration reform bill that the incoming administration plans to quickly introduce. The efforts outlined in the bill include granting immediate green card access to immigrants currently protected under DACA, and decreasing the amount of time required to acquire U.S. citizenship from 13 years to eight, Politico reported. Harris also said that the administration hopes to add more immigration judges to relieve a backlog of pending cases....

Biden has consistently held a lead in polls in recent months, with a new Reuters/Ipsos survey finding 48 percent of registered voters asked intend to vote for the Democrat, compared to 38 percent for Trump. The other 14 percent said they were either not sure, would not vote or may pick another candidate. However, among them 8 percent said they would lean towards Biden if they had to choose between the two....

Now, it appears the U.S. has given up its main leverage—it’s re-entry into the nuclear deal—without demanding anything in return. But why? There’s a hint in an exchange that took place in May 2018, between Janes Wales, the CEO of World Affairs, and Robert Malley, a chief Obama negotiator on the Iran deal currently serving as President Biden’s Special Envoy to Iran. Malley admitted in 2018 interview that President Obama intentionally left several critical issues out of the JCPOA negotiations entirely: Iran’s widely documented, aberrant and destabilizing regional activity, as well the regime’s grave human rights abuses within its own country—abuses nearly unparalleled in the world....

Molly Montgomery, the deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, on Friday morning tweeted her concerns for the women of Afghanistan but later deleted the post. According to the State Department website, Montgomery formerly worked at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, as well as multiple other Foreign service postings. “Woke up with a heavy heart, thinking about all the Afghan women and girls I worked with during my time in Kabul....

As cases of COVID-19 surged past 14 million, Biden’s opponents flooded social media with posts that questioned the science behind the mask appeal and other government responses that have wrecked the economy and constrained civil liberties. Most experts recommend mask wearing and social distancing among a number of effective ways to control the spread of the virus that by December 3, had infected 14,535,196 people in the United States and killed 282,829, the most anywhere in the world....

President Joe Biden has spent the last several weeks of the summer championing his administration’s victories on both the domestic and foreign fronts, buoyed by a resurgent U.S. presence on the world stage, a strong economy at home, and rising poll numbers in line with historic averages for a president nearly two years into his administration. The change in narrative marks a stark difference from the summer of 2021, which found his presidency in a free fall that seemed destined to carry his party’s midterm hopes along with it....

Conducted by Morning Consult, the poll asked Americans which issues were “very important” when deciding who to vote for. Controlling the spread of COVID-19 was “very important” to 93 percent of Biden supporters, the highest percentage across the different issues. Only 59 percent of Trump supporters rated it that highly. Following behind controlling the spread of the virus, the poll found that among Biden supporters the next most important issues were unifying the country (84 percent), universal health-care coverage (83 percent) and lowering health-care costs (76 percent)....