President-elect Joe Biden is on track to take office without key Cabinet members being confirmed on the day of his inauguration, a result of the Republican-led Senate moving much more slowly to schedule confirmation hearings and votes than it has for previous presidents.
A record Joe Biden shouldn’t be proud of
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The White House announced Monday that President Joe Biden will deliver his first prime-time speech Thursday night to commemorate a year since the Covid-19 pandemic effectively shut down American society. Which is go...
Biden to mark one year of Covid-19 shutdown in primetime address Thursday
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President Joe Biden will deliver his first primetime address this Thursday, commemorating the milestone of one year since the global pandemic coronavirus shut down much of the nation. "The President will deliver his...
Biden eyes big win that will send checks to millions of Americans
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Joe Biden is on the cusp of a presidency-defining first 100 days victory and tens of millions of Americans could soon get stimulus checks as the $ 1.9 trillion Covid-19 rescue bill heads back to the House for a fin...
Infamous tent camp on US-Mexico border drawn down after Biden ends Trump policy
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A tent camp in Matamoros, Mexico, where hundreds of migrants stayed in deplorable conditions after being subject to a Trump-era policy requiring they stay in Mexico until their immigration court date in the US, has ...
Top Biden advisers tell staff there’s ‘no room for complacency’ as Covid relief bill nears completion
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The message to White House senior staff as President Joe Biden's cornerstone legislative proposal nears completion is simple, if blunt: there is "absolutely no room for complacency." A two-page memo, drafted by Whit...
Thousands of students have dropped out of school due to Covid-19. These are the educators trying to track them down
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The first thing you need to know about dropping out of school is that it doesn't happen all at once. Educators say students don't just wake up one day and decide that's it, no more school. It happens slowly. They ge...
NYC judge slams prosecutor’s office behind the wrongful homicide convictions of three men
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Three men were released from prison on Friday after the Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) in the Queens, New York, District Attorney's Office found that they had been wrongfully convicted of double homicide. George B...
Biden administration considers opening additional tent facilities in Arizona amid influx of migrants
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The Biden administration is considering opening additional temporary border facilities in Arizona to manage the influx of migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border, marking the latest move to address capacity issues...
Capitol Hill has picked Shalanda Young to lead OMB — but Biden hasn’t yet
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Congressional Democrats are pushing President Joe Biden to nominate Shalanda Young to lead the Office of Management and Budget after Neera Tanden withdrew her nomination amid opposition in the Senate. Young is Bide...
Biden criticizes Texas and Mississippi for lifting restrictions: ‘Neanderthal thinking’
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President Joe Biden sharply criticized states such as Texas and Mississippi for lifting Covid-19 restrictions against pleas from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other top public health official...
‘We’re not keeping up’: Biden administration scrambles to house children crossing the US-Mexico border alone
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The Biden administration is racing to find space for the growing number of families and unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border alone, which may include opening more temporary facilities and providing f...
Biden administration sanctions senior Russian officials over Navalny poisoning and imprisonment
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The Biden administration has slapped sanctions on seven Russian officials in response to the poisoning and imprisonment of opposition leader Alexey Navalny. It was among a series of steps the new administration ann...