US President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a press conference on January 15, 2021 at Biden’s interim headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, about his plan to give vaccines against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to the US population. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Joe Biden’s first Covid-19 package is already facing hurdles in Congress that could force the fledgling…

Biden’s inaugural address was seen by nearly 2 million more television viewers than it was hired for Donald Trump in 2017. New York Times media reporter John Koblin tweeted the numbers: Joe Biden’s inaugural address attracted a larger television audience than Trump’s 2017 speech Yesterday: 39.8 million viewers 2017: 38.3 million viewers CNN had the…

Avril Haines speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee that she will be President-elect Joe Biden’s National Intelligence Directorate on January 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. Joe Raedle | Pool | Reuters WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed Avril Haines as director of national intelligence on Wednesday evening, making her the first official…

To anyone’s surprise, Trump spent his last day in office apologizing for celebrities and political allies. Rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black had both ended their ongoing legal troubles with the stroke of the president’s pen. Al Pirro, the ex-husband of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, has been pardoned. But perhaps the most annoying excuse…

In his first few hours in the Oval Office, President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign more than a dozen executive orders to address challenges like the Covid pandemic and the student debt crisis. Biden’s orders will also help overturn many of the orders issued by President Donald Trump, including the so-called Muslim travel ban and…

President’s historian Michael Beschloss said Tuesday night, although Joe Biden is sworn in as president tomorrow, the American people should not forget the “near-death experience” that Donald Trump has just brought to the country. Decision said Biden rightly focused his inauguration on “unity and reconciliation,” but that it is also important to remember how close…

The U.S. Capitol Building is prepared for President-Elect Joe Biden’s opening ceremonies when American flags are laid in the ground on the National Mall on January 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The nation will celebrate the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, two weeks after…

Donald Trump appears to be installing MAGA loyalists at the helm of the military and intelligence agencies just days before Joe Biden takes office. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow alerted Trump about the step behind the scenes and openly asked what the outgoing president thinks these agencies can be dealt with in less than 48 hours before…

A file photo dated September 29, 2019 shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a rally in support of political prisoners on Prospekt Sakharova Street in Moscow, Russia. Alexei Navalny is passed out in hospital after allegedly being poisoned, according to his press secretary. Sefa Karacan | Anadolu Agency via Getty Images WASHINGTON – President-elect…

When it comes to democracy in America, it can be fair to use Charles Dickens’ opening sentence to his novel A Tale of Two Cities to characterize this moment: “It was the best time, it was the worst time. . . “ More recently, since the violent assault on the Capitol on January 6, media…