What made ‘Celebrating America’ soar
Other inaugural celebrations have festooned chilly Washington, DC, nights in white ties, gilded gowns, and crowded dance floors. Not this one. Forget…
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‘This moment belongs to all of us:’ Black women exult as Kamala Harris walks into history
Human rights lawyer Tara Murray had hopes of somehow witnessing Kamala Harris’ vice-presidential oath in person. But a raging pandemic and the…
Continue Reading Fox News host Judge Jeanine lobbied Trump during his last few hours in office to pardon her ex-husband. It worked.
Fox News host Judge Jeanine successfully lobbied former President Donald Trump in an eleventh-hour effort to pardon her ex-husband in the final hours…
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Divisive policies and actions from Trump-era that Biden could decide to alter
President Joe Biden assumed the office intent on healing a deeply fractured country and reversing former President Donald Trump’s divisive…
Continue Reading Biden rescinds 1776 commission via executive order
President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order to dissolve the 1776 commission, a panel stood up by President Donald Trump as a rebuttal…
Continue Reading DHS pauses some deportations for 100 days
The Department of Homeland Security is pausing deportations for 100 days, the department announced late Wednesday, with some exceptions. The…
Continue Reading Amanda Gorman calls on Americans to ‘leave behind a country better than the one we were left’ in powerful inauguration poem
Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, challenged Americans Wednesday to unify and “leave behind a country better…
Continue Reading Biden: ‘Democracy has prevailed’
President Joe Biden ended his first day in office with a note of hope and optimism, closing his inaugural activities with an appearance at the…
Continue Reading GOP senators warn McConnell could face backlash if he votes to convict Trump
A faction of Senate Republicans has a warning for Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: Stick with former President Donald Trump during his impeachment…
Continue Reading Security unlikely to return to pre-riot form in a post-inauguration Washington
As crews in Washington, DC, started dismantling some security fencing within hours of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, it remained clear…
Continue Reading Biden starts fast on immigration by halting border wall and travel ban while embracing DACA
President Joe Biden kicked off his term by signing out a series of immigration executive actions, moving swiftly to undo many Trump administration…
Continue Reading Trump lays last-minute land mines for Biden on immigration: ‘Anything to make it difficult’
Days from the end of Donald Trump’s term, his administration rushed to push through possible legal land mines to make President Joe…
Continue Reading Last-minute Trump appointee at NSA put on administrative leave due to inspector general probe
National Security Agency General Counsel Michael Ellis, who was installed by former President Donald Trump during his final days in office, was put…
Continue Reading Biden targets Trump’s legacy with first-day executive actions
President Joe Biden is finalizing 17 executive moves just hours after his inauguration Wednesday, moving faster and more aggressively to dismantle…
Continue Reading Senate confirms Avril Haines as director of national intelligence, the first Biden Cabinet nominee confirmed
The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s first Cabinet nominee Wednesday evening, voting to approve his pick for director of national…
Continue Reading Biden arrives at the White House and begins dismantling Trump’s legacy
Hours after he was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden signed 17 executive actions to begin overhauling the…
Continue Reading Biden names acting agency heads as key 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…
Continue Reading GOP senator clears way for first Biden Cabinet vote after lifting hold
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas cleared the way for the Senate to vote on the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s director of national…
Continue Reading An inauguration like no other: Notable moments of a momentous day
President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday looked a bit different from past ceremonies ushering in a new administration. There is, after…
Continue Reading 3 new Democratic senators sworn in, flipping control of the Senate
Vice President Kamala Harris formally swore in three new, barrier-breaking Democratic senators on Wednesday afternoon following her own inauguration,…
Continue Reading Obama and Harris share fist bump at inauguration in historic moment
Barack Obama greeted Kamala Harris with a fist bump at the inauguration on Wednesday, a gesture that carried symbolic weight as the history-making…
Continue Reading 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 signs executive orders on climate, virus
President Joe Biden has signed a series of executive orders from the Oval Office hours after his…
Continue Reading 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.…
Continue Reading Paris climate accord: Biden announces US will rejoin landmark agreement
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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Idaho lawmakers tweak bill in power struggle with governor
House lawmakers fine-tuned legislation Wednesday in their power struggle with Republican Gov. Brad Little over emergency declarations stemming from…
Continue Reading Fact check: True to form, Trump makes multiple false claims in his final comments in office
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…
Continue Reading Biden arrives at the White House
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…
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Wyoming GOP legislator launches long-shot run against Cheney
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney is “out of touch” with Wyoming for her vote to impeach President Donald Trump, a Republican state senator said Wednesday in…
Continue Reading An inauguration like none other: Notable moments of a momentous day
President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday looked a bit different from past ceremonies ushering in a new administration. There is, after…
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…
Continue Reading 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…
Continue Reading 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 Biden promises to be ‘a president for all Americans’
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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Idaho Senate Statement on the 59th Inaugural Ceremony
Idaho Senate Statement on the 59th Inaugural…
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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Biden and Harris sworn in during historic inauguration
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 sworn in as 46th president
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 Read the letters outgoing Presidents left for their successors in the Oval Office
Being President of the United States can be lonely and daunting, and only a few people alive know what it’s like first hand. One of the modern…
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 How to watch the inauguration
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…
Continue Reading How to watch Inauguration Day
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 Justice Sonia Sotomayor to administer vice presidential oath to Kamala Harris
On Wednesday, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, a daughter of immigrants, and Sonia Sotomayor, the nation’s first Latina Supreme Court…
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 Here are the executive actions Biden is expected to take on Inauguration Day
President-elect Joe Biden plans to take 17 executive actions in the first hours of his presidency Wednesday, signing a flurry of executive orders,…
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 Biden transition team denies outgoing acting defense secretary transitional office space
The Biden transition team has declined to give outgoing acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller office space and resources for his transition out…
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…
Continue Reading Biden will extend student loan payment deferrals until October
President-elect Joe Biden will direct the Department of Education Wednesday to extend the suspension of federal student loan payments and interest.…
Continue Reading Trump grants clemency to rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black in final flurry of presidential power
The White House announced early Wednesday that President Donald Trump has granted a pardon to rapper Lil Wayne and a commutation to rapper Kodak…
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 Trump tells people he’s decided to pardon Steve Bannon as one of his final acts in office
President Donald Trump has decided to pardon his former chief strategist Steve Bannon, in a last-minute decision made only hours before he is…
Continue Reading Group of House conservatives pushing to oust Liz Cheney, an effort Republican aides still view as a long shot
A group of House conservatives is pushing to challenge Liz Cheney‘s role as conference chairwoman, trying to force a special meeting to discuss…
Continue Reading Biden’s secretary of state pick vows to appoint LGBTI envoy and allow embassies to fly pride flag
Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the State Department, said Tuesday that he plans to swiftly appoint an LGBTI envoy,…
Continue Reading Biden’s defense secretary pick pledges to uphold ‘principle of civilian control of the military’
President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for defense secretary, retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, pledged on Tuesday that he will “uphold the…
Continue Reading DOJ closes insider trading investigation into Sen. Richard Burr
The Justice Department has notified Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina that it has closed the insider trading investigation into him.…
Continue Reading Key takeaways from the first confirmation hearings for Biden nominees
With just one day left until President-elect Joe Biden takes office, five of his Cabinet nominees faced Senate panels as part of the first step of…
Continue Reading ‘Several dozen’ of Trump’s pardons pushed by criminal justice reform groups, source says
Several dozen of President Donald Trump’s final slate of more than 100 pardons and commutations will be doled out to individuals whose cases…
Continue Reading Members of extremist Oath Keepers group planned attack on US Capitol, prosecutors say
Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the first significant conspiracy charge in the US Capitol attack, alleging that three members of the so-called Oath…
Continue Reading Sen. Hawley blocks quick consideration of Biden’s Homeland Security nominee
Sen. Josh Hawley blocked quick consideration of President-elect Joe Biden’s Homeland Security nominee, Alejandro Mayorkas, on Tuesday, leaving…
Continue Reading Rewatch the 2021 Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden here
On Wednesday, January 20, the Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden and Kamala D. Harris will take place in Washington, DC.…
Continue Reading Biden’s State Department pick reaches out for GOP allies as he promises policy shifts
Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the State Department, indicated to Congress Tuesday that he plans to emphatically…
Continue Reading DOJ closes insider trading investigation into Sen. Richard Burr, source says
The Justice Department has notified Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina that it has closed the insider trading investigation into him, a…
Continue Reading Biden’s daughter Ashley on not having traditional hand-off at White House on Inauguration Day: ‘I think we’re all OK with it’
President-elect Joe Biden‘s daughter, Ashley Biden, did her first network television interview with another member of the small club of…
Continue Reading Trump talked out of pardoning kids and Republican lawmakers
President Donald Trump received an unsettling warning on his final Saturday night in the White House. Huddled for a lengthy meeting with his legal…
Continue Reading Joe Biden grieves Covid victims on eve of his inauguration: ‘To heal, we must remember’
One of the great tragedies of the past year, as some 400,000 Americans lost their lives to Covid-19, was not only that many victims died alone…
Continue Reading Mitch McConnell: Capitol Hill mob was ‘provoked’ by Trump
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday directly blamed President Donald Trump for the deadly mob that attacked the Capitol, as the Senate…
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Informed consent abortion legislation proposed in Wyoming
Women in Wyoming would be allowed to view an ultrasound and hear the heartbeat of the fetus before seeking a non-emergency abortion under a proposed…
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Idaho senators warned of possible COVID-19 exposure
Lawmakers in the Idaho Senate have been told to monitor their health after a Senate staffer tested positive for COVID-19, but that the Senate will…
Continue Reading Tiffany Trump announces engagement on her father’s final full day in office
Tiffany Trump, the youngest daughter of President Donald Trump, announced her engagement to Michael Boulos Tuesday. Her happy news — which…
Continue Reading Joe Biden arrives in Washington on eve of inauguration
President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Washington, DC, on Tuesday for the start of his inaugural ceremonies at a dark and solemn moment in American…
Continue Reading Biden transition finds culture of coronavirus denial throughout Trump’s federal government
Joe Biden’s transition team found a culture of coronavirus skepticism within Donald Trump’s federal government as they prepared to take…
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President Trump’s farewell address
My fellow Americans: Four years ago, we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country, to renew its spirit, and to restore the allegiance…
Continue Reading Biden announces Rachel Levine as pick for assistant secretary at HHS, would be first transgender Senate-confirmed federal official
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as assistant health secretary, and she would make history as the first out,…
Continue Reading US Army soldier allegedly attempted to help plan attack on soldiers abroad and 9/11 Memorial
A US Army soldier was arrested Tuesday on terrorism charges after federal prosecutors said he allegedly attempted to assist ISIS’ efforts to…
Continue Reading Bitter, Trump skips chance to say splashy, high-profile farewell
A president’s most valuable commodity is time and Donald Trump is out of it. With a day remaining in his term, Trump was still consumed with…
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 Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is ‘not who America is’
With one day left in his tenure, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took to his taxpayer-funded Twitter account and denounced multiculturalism, saying it…
Continue Reading Avril Haines, Biden’s DNI pick, pledges to keep politics out of intelligence after Trump’s wars with intelligence community
Avril Haines, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, pledged Tuesday to turn the corner after President…
Continue Reading US Army solider allegedly attempted to help plan attack on soldiers abroad and 9/11 Memorial
A US Army soldier was arrested Tuesday on terrorism charges after federal prosecutors said he allegedly attempted to assist ISIS’ efforts to…
Continue Reading Joe Biden lands at Joint Base Andrews on the eve of his inauguration
President-elect Joe Biden landed at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington Tuesday for the start of his inaugural ceremonies at a dark and solemn…
Continue Reading 12 Army National Guard members removed from inauguration duty
Twelve Army National Guard members have been removed from inauguration duty in Washington, DC, as part of the security vetting process initiated, in…
Continue Reading Biden’s pick to lead State Department to emphasize new direction at confirmation hearing
President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the State Department indicated to Congress Wednesday that he plans to emphatically redirect the…
Continue Reading Joe Biden gives emotional farewell to Delaware as he departs for Washington on eve of his inauguration
President-elect Joe Biden arrives in Washington Tuesday for the start of his inaugural ceremonies at a dark and solemn moment in American history,…
Continue Reading Biden administration to rescind Keystone pipeline permit on Wednesday, sources say
President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration plans to rescind the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, two…
Continue Reading Joe Biden set to arrive in Washington on eve of his inauguration
President-elect Joe Biden arrives in Washington Tuesday for the start of his inaugural ceremonies at a dark and solemn moment in American history,…
Continue Reading Capitol riot investigators narrow in on extremist groups and military-style coordination
They moved in an “organized and practiced fashion” as they pushed through crowds toward entrances to the US Capitol. On the inside,…
Continue Reading An apparent leader of Oath Keepers charged with planning and coordinating breach at US Capitol
Prosecutors have levied the first significant conspiracy charge against an apparent leader in the extremist Oath Keepers movement, alleging the…
Continue Reading Biden to implement new ethics rules banning ‘golden parachute’ bonuses for appointees
President-elect Joe Biden plans to impose a slew of new ethics restrictions on his incoming administration, a source familiar with the plan tells…
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