Day: August 11, 2024

Yesterday, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that an emergency exists in the State of North Carolina and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Debby beginning on August 5, 2024, and continuing.  The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act,…

PRESIDENT KHURELSUKH:  (Via interpreter) Dear Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, it is my great pleasure to host you in Mongolia.  We are very pleased to have you in our beautiful country, Mongolia.  Please feel like at home (inaudible).  Mongolia attaches great significance to its relationship with the United States, and we are committed to further strengthen our Strategic Partnership.  Mongolian people are always grateful for the U.S. successive administrations and the American people for their steadfast support for Mongolia’s transition to a democracy and market economy, and building a free and – free society that upholds human rights and freedom. And…