3 new Democratic senators to be sworn in, which will flip control of the Senate
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…
Continue Reading Trump’s lonely exit
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…
Continue Reading Biden and Harris sworn in during historic inauguration
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 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…
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…
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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’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…
Continue Reading How a US presidential inauguration works
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 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…
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