Joe Biden to meet Olaf Scholz in effort to keep Ukraine strategies aligned

Joe Biden is due to meet the German chancellor as part of continuing efforts to keep the US and Europe aligned in their defence of Ukraine. It will be a working visit to the White House for Olaf Scholz, stripped of any pomp or protocol. No press conference has been planned for the meeting on Friday afternoon and the chancellor will reportedly not be bringing press with him. A senior administration official predicted it would be short but intense. "We're expecting it to be a one-hour meeting or so," the official said, adding that the "bulk of the meeting" would…