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Politics & Policy

Joe Biden stands at a podium wearing a face mask
National
Public Health

Biden to sign coronavirus measures, requires mask use to travel

Biden is putting forth a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and require Americans to wear masks for travel.

4 years ago

President Donald Trump supporters gather on the statehouse steps as the Pennsylvania House of Representatives are sworn-in
Pennsylvania
Politics

Most Pennsylvania GOP backed Trump to the end, and still do

Republicans say there is no conversation inside the state party about moving away from Trump at a critical juncture.

4 years ago

President Biden sits in the Oval Office at the White House
NPR
National
Politics

6 takeaways from President Biden’s inauguration

After a chaotic four years, Biden is calling for calm. A new tone was set, but partisan bickering won't solve the problem of millions fed a daily diet of misinformation.

4 years ago

A man wears a QAnon shirt while boarding a shuttle bus in Londonderry, N.H., on Aug. 28, 2020. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
National
Public Safety

The QAnon ‘storm’ never struck. Some supporters are wavering, others steadfast

A collection of conspiracy theories fuels the QAnon community, but one prediction was central: that former President Donald Trump would arrest Democratic leaders en masse.

4 years ago

A crowd of about 50 presses towards the security barrier in an unsuccessful attempt to hear parts of the inauguration program. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY News)
National

Outside the gates, hundreds gather in D.C. to see Biden and Harris make history

Though security barricades kept visitors blocks away from the Capitol, hundreds tried their best to catch a glimpse of President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

4 years ago

Abdulazeem Sheikh, 22, leads others from the group Young Muslims in afternoon prayer. Thousands of protesters gathered at Thomas Paine Plaza for a March for Humanity in support of refugees and immigrants in Philadelphia on Feb. 4, 2017.  (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Immigration
Social Justice

‘People can breathe easier’: Philly immigration advocates react to Biden executive orders

Some are hopeful. Some are cautious. Some said simply having a president who is not actively hostile to immigrants could have a major positive effect.

4 years ago

President-elect Joe Biden’s and Dr. Jill Biden arrive his inauguration
National
Politics

On Day One, Biden targets Trump policies on climate, virus

Biden on Wednesday will end construction on Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall, end the ban on travel from some Muslim-majority countries, and rejoin the Paris Climate Accord.

4 years ago

In this image from video, Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., on the floor of the Senate Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Senate Television via AP)
National

Democrats gaining Senate control as new members take oath

The three Democrats join a Senate narrowly split 50-50 between the parties, but giving Democrats the majority with Harris able to cast the tie-breaking vote.

4 years ago

President-elect Joe Biden, his wife Jill Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff arrive at the steps of the U.S. Capitol
Delaware
Pennsylvania

Pa., Del. Democrats host joint virtual celebration of Biden-Harris inauguration

Pennsylvania and Delaware democratic lawmakers gathered virtually to celebrate the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

4 years ago

Amy Roe went all out in decorating her 1955 Ford for Biden's inauguration. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware

Her vintage pink Ford decorated for inaugural, Delaware woman goes ridin’ for Biden

Amy Roe wheeled around northern New Castle County in her 1955 Ford to commemorate Joe Biden’s inauguration as the first president from Delaware.

4 years ago

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Tenants' rights advocates
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Homelessness
Housing
Income Inequality

Biden to extend order limiting pandemic evictions

The federal eviction moratorium, implemented through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is intended to help tenants who have been battered economically

4 years ago

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)
National
Poetry

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman: ‘Even as we grieved, we grew.’

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world “even as we grieved, we grew."

4 years ago

A child reacts as villagers hold placards featuring U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris after participating in special prayers ahead of her inauguration, outside a Hindu temple in Thulasendrapuram, the hometown of Harris' maternal grandfather, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. A tiny, lush-green Indian village surrounded by rice paddy fields was beaming with joy Wednesday hours before its descendant, Kamala Harris, takes her oath of office and becomes the U.S. vice president. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
International
National

Indian village cheers for Harris during swearing-in as U.S. VP

Residents of a tiny Indian village surrounded by rice paddies flocked to a Hindu temple, setting off firecrackers and praying and as they watched Kamala Harris take her oath.

4 years ago

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman attends a dress rehearsal for the 59th inaugural ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at the Capitol on Monday. (Jonathan Ernst/AP)
NPR
Government Accountability
Policing

Eugene Goodman, officer who confronted Capitol mob, escorts Kamala Harris to inaugural ceremony

U.S. Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman became a hero as he bravely directed participants in the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol away from the Senate chamber.

4 years ago

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts
National
Politics

Biden takes the helm as president: ‘Democracy has prevailed’

Biden used his inaugural address to urge people to come together to heal a nation left deeply divided by a tumultuous four years.

4 years ago

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