Birthday time: Biden turns 78, will be oldest U.S. president

Washington • President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In two months, he’ll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice.As he wrestles with those issues, Biden will be attempting to accomplish another feat: demonstrating to Americans that age is but a number and he’s up to the job.Biden will be sworn in as the oldest president in the nation&rsqu