President Joseph R. Biden said Friday the American Rescue Plan Act making its way through Congress will help lift up millions of American - including those that are worried that their enhanced unemployment benefits will run out.
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Arizona Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County says it’s incredibly “frustrating” to watch chaos along the U.S. border with Mexico grow as President Biden’s policies begin bearing fruit.
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President Biden bowed to pressure from moderate Democrats on Wednesday and agreed to tighten the eligibility for the $1,400 stimulus checks handed out as part of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.
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The Senate Finance Committee split evenly Wednesday on Xavier Becerra’s nomination as Health and Human Services secretary, teeing up another pitched battle over a Biden Cabinet pick.
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President Biden will visit the Pentagon on Wednesday for the first time since becoming commander in chief on Jan. 20 and will address a Defense Department in the midst of a major review of U.S. troop presence abroad, an anti-extremism push across all branches of the armed forces and other key changes in all corners of the military.
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President Biden's climate blitz already has proven costly to U.S. energy jobs, but concerns are mounting that his executive actions will do nothing to reduce emissions while threatening to wreak enormous environmental damage.
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President Biden said Tuesday that he supports House Democrats' plan to limit who is eligible for the full direct payments of $1,400 in his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that President Biden doesn't plan to track former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial closely or weigh in on whether trying a former president is constitutional.
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President Biden is heading to Wisconsin next week, the White House said Tuesday, marking one of the first times Mr. Biden is venturing outside of Washington since he was sworn into office.
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The new administration's Justice Department will reportedly ask the U.S. Attorneys overseeing two politically fraught investigations to stay on -- and all the other Trump appointees to resign.
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President Biden and Vice President Kamala D. Harris virtually toured a 24-7 vaccination site Monday at the Arizona Cardinals' stadium that could serve as a model for others, as the U.S. pivots from immunizing priority groups to reaching older Americans and racing against fast-moving variants of the coronavirus.
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A founding member of Facebook's oversight board responsible for impartially adjudicating enforcement and government issues has quit the board to join the Biden administration.
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Shortly before Super Bowl LV kicked off Sunday night, President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden honored first responders and led a moment of silence for the 440,000 Americans who have died from the coronavirus.
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President Biden said Friday that Republicans aren't willing to spend as much money as he wants to on coronavirus relief, vowing to press forward quickly regardless of whether the GOP comes around.
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President Biden on Thursday revived his vague claim that he has been "shot at" in danger zones overseas, a dubious one he's usually told when campaigning for office. Critics have drawn comparisons with a similar claim once made by Hillary Rodham Clinton regarding her 1996 visit as first lady to Bosnia.
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President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visited State Department headquarters in Washington Thursday to praise career U.S. diplomats and promise the new administration will "have [their] back" over the coming four years as it pushes a policy of expanded American diplomatic engagement around the world.
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President Biden will announce on Thursday a halt to U.S. support for the Saudi Arabian-led military campaign in Yemen, a top White House official said.
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President Biden said Thursday that Americans can turn to faith in these troubled times and also vowed to tackle "political extremism" and "white supremacy" after the recent attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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President Joe Biden is expected to address the National Prayer Breakfast, a Washington tradition that calls on political combatants to set aside their differences for one morning.
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President Biden held firm Wednesday on his demand for direct payments of up to $1,400 to millions of Americans in any coronavirus package, bolstering Democrats' negotiating hand on Capitol Hill but defying economists who said the cash isn't the best way to stimulate the economy.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki tried to play clean up and affirmed the White House's support for the Space Force on Tuesday after shrugging off a question about it earlier in the day.
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A military coup in Myanmar and major street demonstrations against Russian strongman Vladimir Putin are presenting an early, double-pronged test of President Biden's vow to put promoting democracy and human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy.
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Hundreds of members serving on more than three dozen Pentagon advisory boards must resign in the next two weeks or be fired, Defense Department officials said Tuesday, revealing a sweeping, "zero-based" review of the panels that help guide military policy on education, business, science, and even the renaming of Army bases.
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The Biden administration said Tuesday it will increase the weekly supply of COVID-19 vaccines to the states by 5% and dispatch 1 million additional doses to launch a pharmacy program that will provide vaccination at 6,500 sites before expanding.
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