Biden was scheduled to leave Thursday afternoon for a three-day trip to meet with Pope Francis and Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

In what would have been his last overseas trip as president, Joe Biden had been set to depart for Italy Thursday night to meet with Pope Francis.

President Joe Biden has decided not to embark on a final overseas trip in office, canceling plans to travel to Rome for a personal meeting with Pope Francis this weekend as wildfires continue to rage across Los Angeles.

President Joe Biden’s administration plans one additional round of restrictions on the export of artificial intelligence chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp. just days before leaving office, a final push in his effort to keep advanced technologies out of the hands of China and Russia.

Nvidia on Thursday criticized a reported plan by the Joe Biden administration to impose new restrictions on AI chip exports, saying that the outgoing U.S. leader should not "preempt incoming President Trump" by enacting a last-minute policy.

JUST IN: Donald Trump blamed the U.S. for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, claiming it was due to U.S. support for Ukraine’s NATO membership. He also repeated the Kremlin lie that the U.S. sabotaged a deal between Ukraine and Russia. What a fuc*ing traitor pic.twitter.com/wgh85Mo0Tn

President-elect Donald Trump, on Jan. 7, blamed the outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden for Russia's all-out war against Ukraine. Trump said Biden's support of Ukraine's NATO membership had led to Russia's war against the country.

At a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence after Congress certified his presidential victory, Donald Trump noted that Ukraine and Russia continued to lose many people and stressed that if he had been president,