President Joe Biden's administration on Friday renewed deportation relief that currently covers 900,000 immigrants from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine and Sudan, a move that would delay any attempts by President-elect Donald Trump to sunset those protections.

In his final days before leaving office, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has made the decision to extend protections from deportation to thousands of illegal immigrants from the Sudan,

Some 937,000 immigrants from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine and Sudan could benefit from the extension of temporary protections.

The Biden administration on Friday targeted Russia’s energy sector, including its oil industry, with some of its harshest sanctions to date meant to cut off funding for Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

The Biden administration on Friday imposed its broadest package of sanctions yet targeting Russia's oil and gas revenues in an attempt to give Kyiv and the incoming administration of Donald Trump leverage to reach a deal for peace in Ukraine.