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The incoming director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is arriving at an agency that has been relegated to the sidelines during the coronavirus pandemic

In his inaugural address to an America still reeling amid a deadly pandemic and heightened political divisions, President Joe Biden emphasized unity and collective strength as he set out to help the country overcome its many challenges.

China has imposed sanctions on nearly 30 former Trump administration officials as they made their way out the door.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday is extending the payment pause on federal student loans through September 2021 in one of his first actions after inauguration.

A full-throated, supremely confident Lady Gaga belted out the national anthem Wednesday in a very Gaga way — with flamboyance, fashion and passion.

Biden says duty of all Americans, especially elected leaders, is ‘to defend the truth and defeat the lies’

Trump continued an Inauguration Day custom by leaving a personal notes to his successor. The tradition dates back to at least the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan handed off power to George H.W. Bush.

A Capitol police officer hailed as a hero for his actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol is accompanying Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at the inauguration of Harris and President-elect Joe Biden.

Hours after President Donald Trump left the White House, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States alongside Kamala Harris as his Vice President. See the moment in photos.

Kamala Harris’ historic vice presidency will introduce a dynamic second family to the nation, one that represents not only who she is at her core, but is a profound celebration of blended, multigenerational family units.

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden began dismantling Donald Trump’s legacy by signing a series of executive actions that reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic

Donald Trump released current and former members of his administration from the terms of their ethics pledge

The inauguration of Kamala Harris as vice president will mark an expansion of what’s possible in American politics.

Joe Biden has sworn the oath of office to become the 46th president of the United States, declaring that “democracy has prevailed.”

Joe Biden has sworn the oath of office to become the 46th president of the United States, declaring that “democracy has prevailed.” History was made at his side, as Kamala Harris became the first woman to be vice president.

Just prior to the end of his White House tenure, President Donald Trump granted last-minute clemency to a lengthy list of individuals, including rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.

His presidency over, Donald Trump has bid farewell to Washington, but he’s also hinted at a comeback

People in a tiny Indian village surrounded by rice paddies have flocked to a Hindu temple, burst crackers and uttered prayers

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris will make history on Wednesday when she is sworn in as the first female Vice President of the United States — but that’s not the only way the Biden-Harris team is making history.

It’s a Twitter user’s worst nightmare: Wake up to find most of your followers gone.

President Donald Trump has shielded tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants from deportation from the U.S. The order signed Tuesday night was a final reward for Venezuelan exiles who have been among Trump’s most loyal supporters and who fear losing the same privileged access to the White House during the Biden administration

Brayden Harrington, the teenager whom President-elect Joe Biden befriended as a fellow stutterer — and will be part of a primetime inaugural special — has a book coming out this summer.

“I did all of them, whether they were one term, two terms. I was always their announcer,” said Charlie Brotman, a native Washingtonian.

A federal appeals court has thrown out a rule that made one of the Trump administration’s most momentous climate rollbacks

As the country prepares for the 59th inaugural ceremony under extraordinary circumstances, here’s a look at some of the traditions it will incorporate.

Georgia’s secretary of state has certified the results of the two U.S. Senate runoff elections

On his way out the door, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has lashed out anew at China by declaring that its policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in western Xinjiang region constitute a “genocide.”

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell opened the Senate on Tuesday saying the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol was “fed lies” by the president and others in the deadly riot

President Donald Trump has pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a late flurry of clemency action benefiting nearly 150 people, including rap stars and former members of Congress.

Get to know the members of the new first family.

At a memorial for the lives taken by COVID-19, President-elect Joe Biden is calling on Americans to remember those lost to the coronavirus and to begin to heal.

President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate.

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the intelligence community, Avril Haines, is promising to “speak truth to power,” and insisting that she would keep politics out of the intelligence agencies to ensure their work is trusted

Someday, perhaps, John Roberts will swear in a new president who doesn’t wish someone else was chief justice of the United States.

The daughter of President-elect Joe Biden has expressed concern for her father’s safety on Inauguration Day but is confident in the protection from the “incredible” Secret Service.

In a story January 18, 2021, about the inauguration, The Associated Press erroneously reported that 200,000 small flags displayed on the National Mall were placed there to honor the nearly 400,000 Americans killed in the coronavirus pandemic

President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration.

She was a Howard University senior working toward a career in public service, mature thanks to her four years on campus and committed to strengthening the bond with her line sisters. She was none other than Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

President Donald Trump on Monday said he is ending COVID-19 travel restrictions for air travelers from Europe and Brazil, a move that the incoming administration quickly rejected, NBC News reports.

Joe Biden made a lot of promises on the campaign trail and a memo from his chief of staff indicates he is ready to fulfill them.  Through executive order, on day one, Biden intends to re-join the Paris climate accord, end the travel ban, issue a mask mandate on federal property and order a halt to evictions and student...

The resiliency, culture and heroism of Black Americans and the African diaspora will be the central theme of a virtual event Tuesday evening that will celebrate the nation’s diversity before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Former Los Angeles City Councilman Alex Padilla resigned Monday as California secretary of state and was formally appointed by the governor to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris resigned her Senate seat on Monday, two days before she and President-elect Joe Biden are inaugurated.

Guatemalan police and soldiers have broken up a group of hundreds of migrants who had spent two nights stuck at a roadblock on a rural highway.

President-elect Joe Biden is poised to roll back several of the Trump administration’s most restrictive sexual and reproductive health policies, including limits on abortion, NBC News reports.

Kamala Harris will make history on Wednesday when she becomes the nation’s first female vice president — and the first Black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent to hold that office

A Russian judge has ordered to jail opposition leader Alexei Navalny for 30 days after the leading Kremlin critic returned to Russia from Germany where he was recovering from nerve agent poisoning he blames on the Kremlin

Sarah Fuller, the first woman to score in a Power Five conference football game, says she’s been invited to attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

As he was preparing to leave the White House in January 1989, President Ronald Reagan wanted to write a note to his successor, George H

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Rohit Chopra to be the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, two sources said.

Twitter on Sunday temporarily suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia who has expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories online.

U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

A New Mexico county official and founder of the group Cowboys for Trump who had vowed to return to Washington after last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol to place a flag on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk has been arrested Sunday by the FBI.

Donald Trump is the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice — this time for his role in inciting a deadly assault on the Capitol by his supporters — but he is still poised to leave office with a job approval rating that is fairly typical of his entire time in office, NBC News reports.

President-elect Joe Biden will deliver an appeal to national unity when he’s sworn in Wednesday and plans immediate moves to combat the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies.

Democrats are building their case for convicting President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.

To most Americans, the sight of armed National Guard troops sleeping in the Capitol Rotunda this past week was shocking and disturbing

An Associated Press review of records finds that veterans of President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful campaign had key roles in the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol

“The country would be better off if we did not give him the platform that a prosecution would for the next three years,” James Comey told Sky News.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been arrested at a Moscow airport as he tried to enter the country from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin

Heavily fortified statehouses around the U.S. are seeing small and peaceful protests, despite widespread fears of another burst of right-wing violence like the attack on the Capitol in Washington

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

At the moment President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office on Wednesday, the National Archives and Records Administration will take custody of Donald Trump’s presidential records

President-elect Joe Biden will announce legislation his first day in office that provides a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the United States illegally

Republicans are worried that a corporate backlash over the deadly Capitol insurrection could make it harder to win back the Senate

A group of Christian leaders is preparing to meet the tense national mood in the run-up to inauguration with three days of ecumenical, nonpartisan programming organized under the umbrella of #PeaceWithJustice

Organizers of the March for Life are asking their supporters nationwide not to gather in Washington this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic and political unrest

In a story January 16, 2021, about Republican leaders invoking war rhetoric, The Associated Press incorrectly referred to an incoming chairwoman of the Michigan GOP

Chain-link fencing surrounds state capitols and police and National Guard troops are on patrol or standby in advance of possible violence leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden

Rioters who supported Trump cited false allegations about election issues in Pennsylvania — shared by some of the state’s own Republican lawmakers — as a reason to “storm the Capitol.”

President-elect Joe Biden is filling out his State Department team with a group of former career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration

When Joe Biden takes the oath of office Wednesday, he’ll begin to reshape the office of the presidency

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has issued a decree setting parliamentary and presidential elections for later this year