On Capitol Hill, a House committee is expected to vote to advance legislation that would create a commission to study whether to pay reparations to descendants of slaves.
The president is seeking to bolster support for a sweeping $2 trillion plan that includes spending on roads, bridges, public transit, housing, broadband, waterlines, schools and more.
Their goal was to protect the public and be transparent, but critics worry they overreacted and might undermine vaccine confidence.
Capitol Police officer William “Billy” F. Evans, who served for 18 years on the force, will lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday.
Anne Milgram, critic of criminal-justice system, would shape drug enforcement amid a worsening opioid crisis, if she is confirmed.
The president and his aides point to broad public support for many Democratic policies among voters in both parties, as well as Republican governors, mayors, and other local officials.
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The Inauguration
Trump skipped the inauguration — themed “America United” — two weeks after inciting a deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol.
Harris becomes the first woman, Black woman and Asian American to serve as vice president.
Biden signed executive actions to require masks on all federal grounds and ask agencies to extend eviction moratoriums.
President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in as the nation’s 46th president on Wednesday at an inauguration like no other.
Joe Biden pleaded for national unity in his inaugural address Wednesday after he was sworn in as the 46th president. Here's our analysis and the full speech.
Several of the new words in Biden’s speech reflected pandemic deaths, economic fallout and recent far-right violence. He was the first new president to say “white supremacy.”
New presidential families, past commanders in chief and government members of both parties were in attendance as a new era was marked in American democracy.
Joe Biden will become the 46th president when he takes the oath of office. Just as no two presidents are alike, neither are the ceremonies that usher them into office.
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Their goal was to protect the public and be transparent, but critics worry they overreacted and might undermine vaccine confidence.