Cotton wants answer from Haines before agreeing to quick confirmation vote
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas is waiting for an answer from President Joe Biden’s director of national intelligence nominee Avril…
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Biden extends student loan payment deferrals until October
President Joe Biden is directing the Department of Education Wednesday to extend the suspension of federal student loan payments and interest.…
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Hours after he was sworn in, President Joe Biden announced the US plans to reenter the Paris climate accord, the landmark international agreement…
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President Donald Trump made false claims from the first hours of his term to the last. Trump repeated some of his favorite falsehoods in both his…
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Joe Biden took a brief walk along the inaugural parade route Wednesday before entering the White House for the first time as the 46th President of…
Continue Reading Biden names acting agency heads as his Cabinet nominees remain unconfirmed
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a slate of acting agency heads after taking office without a single one of his Cabinet nominees in place…
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Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to swear in three new, barrier-breaking Democratic senators on Wednesday afternoon following her own…
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Whitehouse.gov relaunches to include Spanish language communications under Biden
The Whitehouse.gov website was updated on Wednesday to reflect that Joe Biden is the new President of the United States, and it now also includes a…
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In one last divisive spectacle before exiting the Oval Office, President Donald J. Trump became the first chief executive in modern US history to…
Continue Reading Biden was sworn in on a storied 19th century family Bible
President Joe Biden was sworn in on a 19th century family Bible on Wednesday, continuing his longtime tradition of using the heirloom during his…
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Here is a look at the life of Vice President Kamala Harris. Personal Birth date: October 20, 1964 Birth place: Oakland, California Birth name: Kamala…
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President Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States Wednesday, ushering in a new era of calm and comity to Washington after…
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris took their oaths of office Wednesday in a historic inauguration. Harris will be the…
Continue Reading Biden to be inaugurated as 46th president as Trump has left Washington
After campaigning on a promise to heal a fractured nation, President-elect Joe Biden will begin the work of uniting the country Wednesday when he is…
Continue Reading Trump’s last-minute pardons include Bannon, Lil Wayne and scores of others
President Donald Trump issued a raft of 11th-hour pardons and commutations early Wednesday that included his onetime political strategist, a former…
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President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in on Wednesday as the next president of the United States on an Inauguration Day that will look like no…
Continue Reading Trump departs Washington a pariah as his era in power ends
Donald Trump’s era in Washington is over. The all-consuming, camera-hungry, truth-starved era that fixated the nation and exposed its darkest…
Continue Reading Trump’s acting attorney general leaves without creating controversial special counsels
Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen is resigning Wednesday at noon, ending a tenure marked by the things that didn’t happen, including no…
Continue Reading Melania Trump outsourced writing her own ‘thank you’ notes to the White House residence staff
First lady Melania Trump did not write her own “thank you” notes to the White House residence staff who have cared for her and her family…
Continue Reading Biden to be inaugurated as 46th president as Trump leaves Washington
After campaigning on a promise to heal a fractured nation, President-elect Joe Biden will begin the work of uniting the country Wednesday when he is…
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President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in on Wednesday as the next president of the United States on an Inauguration Day that will look like no…
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The invitations have been scaled back by the pandemic and the security has been heightened by the insurrection, but Joe Biden’s inauguration as…
Continue Reading Biden puts Trump’s climate and environmental rollbacks in his crosshairs
Among incoming President Joe Biden’s Day One priorities: Begin rolling back climate and environmental policies of the Trump administration,…
Continue Reading Biden to rescind 1776 commission via executive order
President-elect Joe Biden will issue an executive order to dissolve the 1776 commission, a panel stood up by President Donald Trump as a rebuttal to…
Continue Reading How the narrow Senate majority will shape Biden’s presidency
In a matter of hours, President Joe Biden will inherit a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and Senate. But the narrow majorities in both…
Continue Reading Trump pardons Steve Bannon as one of his final acts in office
President Donald Trump pardoned his former chief strategist Steve Bannon in a last-minute decision made only hours before he is scheduled to depart…
Continue Reading Washington Post: Biden to ask for US Surgeon General Jerome Adams’ resignation and name acting official
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to ask for US Surgeon General Jerome Adams’ resignation soon after he is sworn-in on Wednesday, and…
Continue Reading ‘A vote of conscience’: GOP senators signal that Trump’s fate is in their hands
A wide range of Senate Republicans are noncommittal about whether they are considering convicting Donald Trump of committing high crimes and…
Continue Reading Trump revokes rule barring lobbying by former officials as he leaves office
As his term comes to an end, President Donald Trump revoked a rule he signed early in his term that imposed a five-year lobbying ban for…
Continue Reading Biden to start fast on immigration with DACA, border wall and travel ban
President-elect Joe Biden will kick off his term by rolling out a series of immigration executive actions, moving swiftly to undo many Trump…
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