US President Joe Biden gave a State of the Union address in Washington for the third time in his term in office. The 81-year-old Biden tried to dispel concerns about his health by speaking particularly forcefully.

At times, Biden sounded like an auctioneer, commented a reporter from the New York Times. Biden received the usual applause on most topics, but when he spoke about the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, there was the first heckler. Someone shouted “Lies!” after Biden said, “We all saw it with our own eyes: These rioters were not patriots”