Follow the president-elect’s progress filling nearly 800 positions, among the 1,200 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
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John M. Pierce, an anti-vaccine attorney representing 17 riot defendants, has courted controversy by fundraising millions, while calling Jan. 6 a government conspiracy. He is also an attorney for Rudolph W. Giuliani and briefly represented Kyle Rittenhouse.
Biden’s strategy in Afghanistan, where 13 Americans were killed this past week, as well as heightening concern about covid-19 have set off a fresh round of intraparty finger-pointing.
Evacuees from Afghanistan are facing long delays as they wait to be processed at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.
The Oval Office meeting was delayed one day because of the deadly terrorist attack in Kabul.
Officers blame Trump and others for being “violently assaulted, spat on, tear-gassed, bear-sprayed, subjected to racial slurs and epithets, and put in fear for their lives.”
Criticism is intensifying on Fox News and from the nativist, anti-immigrant factions in the country that helped Donald Trump ride into the White House.
Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), who both served in Iraq before being elected to Congress, returned home via a U.S. military flight used for evacuating U.S. citizens, allies and vulnerable Afghans.
Defense attorney argued Joseph Hackett’s wife would keep him from returning to extremist views. She hosts a political podcast, prosecutors say.
The president embraces a cautious worldview that prizes alliances but also narrows the aperture of American influence, with greater attention on domestic concerns.
After declaring ‘independence from a deadly virus’ on July Fourth, Biden and his team were caught flat-footed as the delta crisis spiraled out of control.
The president didn’t acknowledge any errors in the execution of the U.S. withdrawal, urging Americans to save any criticism for later.
White House officials blame bureaucratic backlogs and covid-19 for delays, but advocates say political fears over admitting large numbers of refugees played a role.
The situation in Afghanistan unraveled with quicksilver speed over the first three days of Biden’s long-planned vacation, which he curtailed Monday to return to the White House to address the nation.
Even some allies say the lack of planning for the U.S. withdrawal from a 20-year war raises questions about the president’s leadership.
A president who has long believed that the war could not be won says ‘I stand squarely behind’ the decision to pull out, even at a cost.
Biden issues a harsh and bracing assessment on the casualties from America’s longest war, including the Afghans themselves, as the Taliban takes control.
“I am convinced there is absolutely no chance,” the young senator told reporters in 1975, referring to the odds of turning things around in Vietnam.
Biking with Republicans. Tacos with AOC. Buttigieg is deftly using the infrastructure talks to quietly build a network, potentially laying the groundwork for his political future.
