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  CLICK HERE TO READ MORE IN THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER  Biden’s team has both touted his role in the debt ceiling negotiations as vice president and said that the experience proved negotiating with Republicans was a fruitless exercise. “In 2011, the Obama-Biden administration negotiated in good faith, but congressional Republicans' recklessness caused a historic blow to  our economy," said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on the day of Biden’s meeting with McCarthy, referring to America's S&P Global Rating being downgraded after that partisan stalemate. It’s another test of whether what worked for Biden in Senate cloakrooms can succeed in the Oval Office — and of whether his partisan record or his bipartisan aspirations will prevail.

  New device could protect satellites from microwave attacks, scientists say However, military users might have reservations about the technology proposed by Zhang’s team, said the researcher, who studies the physics of high-speed fluids. Mobile platforms for pulsed energy weapons, such as warships , planes and trucks, would have to overcome many engineering problems to be able to host a detonation shock device, he said. Zhang’s system contains a detonation shock tunnel made of several sections of tubes, each separated by metallic membranes that allow scientists to control the explosions. However, the Beijing-based researcher noted that reloading new membranes after each shot could be difficult on the battlefield, unless the job could be automated in a quick and reliable manner. The power-generating explosion could also produce a loud noise that would expose the weapon’s location, he said. The research team’s generator was assembled and tested at a research facility for developing ...