WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherited […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen will resign when President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office. The Justice Department says Rosen’s resignation goes into effect at noon Wednesday. Rosen […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration (all times local): 10:35 a.m. President-elect Joe Biden has arrived at the U.S. Capitol ahead of his inauguration as the United States’ […]
With only hours to go before leaving office, President Donald Trump pardoned 73 people and commuted the sentences of 70 others. The list, made public early Wednesday morning, included his former chief […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of his White House term that benefited more […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference Tuesday that the city has just 92,000 first doses of Covid-19 vaccine left, projecting it will hit zero by Friday. […]
A widely cited model developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington is projecting that the United States could see more than 566,000 coronavirus deaths by […]
More than 211,000 children were reported to have Covid-19 between Jan. 7 and Jan. 14, in the largest weekly increase since the pandemic began in the U.S., according to the American Academy […]
(AP) — As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Not to worry, Trump insisted, his administration had […]
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Powerful winds raking California on Tuesday reignited fires where a massive summer wildfire burned south of the San Francisco region, authorities said. Evacuations were ordered in Santa […]