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Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr. covers politics and the White House for The Washington Times. He can be reached at thowell@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Tom Howell Jr.

US President Joe Biden, left, talks with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, during a walk, with their wives (not pirctured) outside Carbis Bay Hotel, Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain, ahead of the G7 summit, Thursday June 10, 2021. (Toby Melville/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden, Britain’s Johson pledge to tackle pandemic, climate change

President Biden, in England on the first overseas trip of his term, began stamping his brand on U.S. diplomacy in person Thursday, pledging with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to take aggressive action on climate change and gearing up for the Group of Seven summit by offering to give away a half-billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Published June 10, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden looks on as first lady Jill Biden addresses U.S. military personnel at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, ahead of the G-7 summit in Cornwall on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (Joe Giddens/Pool Photo via AP)

First lady Jill Biden to keep up a busy schedule in U.K.

First lady Jill Biden enjoyed tea with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's wife, Carrie, on Thursday and will meet with British military veterans and Queen Elizabeth II over the weekend as part of a busy schedule during President Biden's first foreign trip as president. Published June 10, 2021

In this March 15, 2021, file photo, boxes of COVID-19 vaccine provided through the COVAX global initiative arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. The Biden administration plans to provide 500 million shots purchased from Pfizer to 92 lower-income countries and the African Union over the next year through the U.N.-backed COVAX program. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Biden prods G-7 nations to donate COVID-19 vaccines, pledges 500 million more doses

President Biden prodded wealthy nations Thursday to contribute a fair share of COVID-19 vaccines to the world after the U.S. set a high bar for the Group of Seven nations gathered in England, pledging to buy and donate 500 million doses of the "extremely effective" Pfizer-BioNTech version for the poorest nations. Published June 10, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive on Air Force One at Cornwall Airport Newquay, near Newquay, England, ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall, early Thursday, June 10, 2021. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden to stress strengthening alliances before fraught Putin summit

President Biden arrived in England on Wednesday for his first foreign trip, telling U.S. troops at an air base that he's on a mission to reinforce alliances with the world's leading democracies before his showdown next week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Published June 9, 2021

President Joe Biden salutes as he boards Air Force One upon departure, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Biden is embarking on the first overseas trip of his term, and is eager to reassert the United States on the world stage, steadying European allies deeply shaken by his predecessor and pushing democracy as the only bulwark to the rising forces of authoritarianism. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Full agenda, alliance repair top Biden’s Europe to-do list

President Biden embarked on his first foreign trip Wednesday hoping to revamp transatlantic ties, forge a vaccine strategy for the COVID-19 fight and unite the world's most economically advanced democracies to fight Russian and Chinese geopolitical provocations and a rising menace in cyberspace. Published June 9, 2021

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Pelosi: Voting bill ‘must become law’ despite Sen. Manchin’s opposition

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said the Democrats' high-profile voting bill is awaiting action in the Senate and "must become law" to preserve the sanctity of the vote, doubling down on the sprawling measure two days after Sen. Joe Manchin III effectively doomed its prospects. Published June 8, 2021

Vice President Kamala Harris, left, looks toward Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, during a news conference, Monday, June 7, 2021, at the National Palace in Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

VP Harris lowers expectations for ‘quick fix’ to border crisis

Vice President Kamala Harris says there isn't going to be a "quick fix" to the migrant surge from Central America and dismissed those who have criticized her for failing to visit the U.S. southern border to see the crisis firsthand. Published June 8, 2021

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks to reporters after House Republicans voted to oust her from her leadership post as chair of the House Republican Conference because of her repeated criticism of former President Donald Trump for his false claims of election fraud and his role in instigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Rep. Liz Cheney: Trump guilty of ‘most egregious’ violation of oath

Rep. Liz Cheney says former President Donald Trump's incitement of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was a historically egregious violation of a president's oath and she was shocked to see House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pay the ex-president a visit at his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, weeks later. Published June 7, 2021

First lady Jill Biden, center left, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speak to a person as they visit a vaccine clinic at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York Sunday, June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Fauci poses for selfies, shakes hands in NYC after rough-and-tumble week

Dr. Anthony Fauci toured a New York vaccine site with first lady Jill Biden on Sunday, offering a positive photo-op as he battles critics who say his 2020 emphasis on a natural source of the coronavirus damaged his credibility and that he must clarify how U.S. grant funding was used at a virology center in Wuhan, China. Published June 6, 2021