Deputy White House press secretary TJ Ducklo has been suspended for one week after he harassed and threatened a Politico journalist who was pursuing a story about his romantic involvement with another reporter. Vanity Fair reported that Ducklo responded angrily during an off-the-record call with Politico’s Tara Palmeri when she was reporting on his relationship […]
President Joe Biden said that former President Donald Trump should not receive intelligence briefings even though they typically have been given to other former presidents. Biden told CBS News in an interview that Trump was “unfit to be president” and his “erratic behavior” is why he should not have access to the nation’s classified information. […]
The U.S. added 49,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent, a 0.4 percentage point drop, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The uptick in jobs shows the recovery from the coronavirus recession resumed last month after December job losses, but the report underscored the deep damage yet […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is signaling a tougher line with the Taliban than his predecessor, with top officials warning that a planned U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in May could be delayed if the insurgents fail to live up to their promises. A flurry of statements and comments from the White House, State Department […]
President Biden on Tuesday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to phase out its use of private prisons. The executive order, signed alongside three others as part of an effort to address racial inequality, largely returns the department to the policy adopted under the Obama administration. “To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives […]
Democrats in both chambers of Congress on Tuesday reintroduced a bill to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time since 2009, setting a $15 an hour target by 2025. That level would be more than double the current rate of $7.25 an hour, which was approved in 2007 and set in place two […]
President Biden is expected to ban most non-U.S. citizens traveling from South Africa from entering the U.S. due to the COVID-19 variant recently discovered there. A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official told Reuters in an interview that Biden will restrict entry for travelers who are not U.S. citizens and have visited […]
Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci announced Thursday that President Biden will roll back a Trump-era policy that banned taxpayers’ dollars from going to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information. Fauci, the newly appointed chief medical adviser to Biden, said the move was in line with the new administration’s undertaking to […]
President Biden was sworn into office Wednesday, and one of his first priorities will be to sign an executive order urging Americans to wear masks for 100 days and requiring them on federal property. His first executive order, the “100-day masking challenge,” will require masks and social distancing in all federal buildings, on all federal […]
President-elect Joe Biden publicly received his second dose of the vaccine for the novel coronavirus on Monday in a continued bid to bolster public confidence in the inoculation. “My number one priority is getting vaccine into people’s arms, like I just did today, as rapidly as we can,” Biden, wearing a black face mask, told […]
President Trump on Friday said he would not attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, a break with more than a century of tradition as he stews over his defeat. “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th,” Trump tweeted. There had been no indication Trump planned […]
Correspondence between Hunter Biden and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming from 2017 shows President-elect Joe Biden’s son extending “best wishes from the entire Biden family,” and urging the chairman to “quickly” send a $10 million wire to “properly fund and operate” the Biden joint venture with the now-bankrupt Chinese energy company. The $10 million transfer to […]