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Trump joins these other presidents who have skipped inaugurations
Trump's decision to skip Biden's inauguration is not without precedent, though one must go back to 1869 to find the most recent example.
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Biden Plans Ten Days of Action on Four Crises, Top Aide Says
President-elect Joe Biden will take decisive action over ten days to address four intersecting crises, his incoming chief of staff said in a memo to staff on Saturday.
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Curley: Democrat, media hypocrisy shines again as Trump leaves
With Joe Biden's inauguration less than five days away, some amazing coincidences have occurred.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has casually destroyed New York for 10 months, abruptly announced that it was time to reopen the economy.
At his State of the State, Cuomo said, “We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.”
When the cost of destroying New York's economy meant hurting Donald Trump, he was more than willing to pay the high price. Luckily, the...
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Biden Seeks Quick Start With Executive Actions and Aggressive Legislation
In an effort to mark a clean break from the Trump era, the president-elect plans to roll out dozens of executive orders in his first 10 days on top of a big stimulus plan and an expansive immigration bill.
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Airline Industry's Top Lobbying Group Will Retain Its Republican Chief
Nick Calio, the Republican president and CEO of the lobbying group for the U.S. airline industry, will remain on the job despite the transition to the Biden administration.
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Trump administration carries out 13th and final execution
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - The Trump administration early Saturday carried out its 13th federal execution since July, an unprecedented run that concluded just five days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden - an opponent of the federal death penalty.
Dustin Higgs, convicted of ordering the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996, was the third to receive a lethal injection this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
President Trump's Justice Department resumed federal executions last year following a 17-year hiatus. No president in more than 120...
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Walgreens and Pfizer become the latest corporations to suspend political donations to Republican lawmakers who objected to Biden's presidential win
Summary List Placement After the violent pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill last week, some businesses began cutting ties with President Donald Trump , while some corporations decided to suspend political donations to one or both political parties.
Walgreens and Pfizer are two of the most recent companies to suspend PAC contributions to the 147 Republican lawmakers who opposed the certification of Democrat Joe Biden as the next president.
Walgreens confirmed to Insider on Saturday that it has suspended contributions to the GOP members of congress who voted to overturn the election...
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Some in the GOP parrot far-right talk of a coming civil war
War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters, with some elected officials and party leaders rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric calling for a second civil war.
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Universal Orlando, Loews take heat for U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley fundraiser at Portofino Bay
Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando appears to be hosting a fundraiser next month for controversial U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, who spearheaded the objections to President-elect Biden's win in Congress on Jan. 6.
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Biden to elevate role of science with cabinet picks
President-elect Joe Biden announced key members of his science team Friday, including pioneering geneticist Eric Lander as the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, elevating
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Biden official accuses Trump administration of 'sabotage,' following a string of controversial foreign policy decisions in the final days of the presidency
Summary List Placement A member of President-elect Joe Biden's transition team has said that recent foreign policy moves by President Donald Trump's administration "feel like sabotage."
In an exclusive interview with PBS NewsHour, the unnamed official accused Trump's administration - particularly Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - of making decisions that are not wanted by either party.
The Biden official said: "We will manage this but it does start, at some point, to feel like sabotage. Not only do they know we don't want to implement some of these approaches; they don't even want to...
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Summary List Placement The US House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act late Wednesday, in a party-line vote on the most ambitious policing... Read more ...
A wealthy Florida Keys community received vaccines before the rest of the...
Summary List Placement Nearly every eligible resident of a gated community in the Florida Keys was vaccinated by mid-January as the rest of the state struggled to get doses... Read more ...
House passes sweeping bill on election, government reforms
The House on Wednesday approved a sweeping package of election and government reforms, amplifying the issue of voting rights amid a contentious national debate in the wake of... Read more ...
House Approves Major Election And Campaign Finance Reform Bill
The "For the People Act" would dramatically overhaul the U.S. voting system and seek to limit the amount of dark money in politics. (Image credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) Read more ...
White House weighs minimum wage negotiations with Republicans
The White House is weighing whether to engage in talks with Republicans on a minimum wage hike once Congress passes its Covid relief bill, two sources with knowledge of their... Read more ...
New mask wars threaten Biden's pandemic response at critical moment
The White House is on a collision course with red state governors over mask mandates and other coronavirus restrictions, testing the bipartisan unity that President Joe Biden... Read more ...
Watchdog says Elaine Chao, ex-transpo secretary and Mitch McConnell's wife...
Summary List Placement Elaine Chao, the former transportation secretary under Trump and wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was cited by the Inspector General for... Read more ...
House Cancels Thursday Session Over Attack Fears
The House of Representatives has canceled its Thursday session over reports of a possible plot by an “identified militia group” to attempt a repeat of the Jan. 6 attack on the... Read more ...
Cuomo's office accused of violating its own sexual harassment policy
ALBANY, N.Y. - A high-ranking Democrat in the New York Legislature and a lawyer representing one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusers say the governor's office flouted its own rules... Read more ...
Alleged Proud Boy leader wins pretrial release
A federal judge in Washington has ordered the release of an alleged Proud Boys leader after declaring that the government had presented only “weak” evidence tying him to... Read more ...