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President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks about the coronavirus, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Politics & Policy

Biden ordering stopgap help as talks start on big aid plan

The executive orders that Biden is to sign would increase food aid, protect job seekers on unemployment and clear a path for a $15 hourly minimum wage for some employees.

5 years ago

Sen. Menendez sits at a mahogany bench, speaking into a microphone.
Politics & Policy

N.J. lawmaker to introduce Biden’s ‘bold’ immigration reform package

Sen. Bob Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

5 years ago

Joe Biden stands at a podium wearing a face mask
Politics & Policy

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.

5 years ago

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

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.

5 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
Politics & Policy

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.

5 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)
Politics & Policy

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.

5 years ago

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

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.

5 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)
Politics & Policy

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.

5 years ago

(Delphine Lee/NPR)
NPR
Money

President Biden will extend student loan payment freeze through Sept. 30

President Joe Biden plans to ask the Education Department to extend pandemic relief for about 41 million federal student loan borrowers through September 30th.

5 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)
Politics & Policy

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."

5 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)
Politics & Policy

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.

5 years ago

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

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.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House
Politics & Policy

Trump departs White House, with deadly Capitol riot defining tumultuous term

It’s the first time in more than a century that a sitting president has rejected the tradition of attending his successor’s inauguration.

5 years ago

A view of the inaugural stage outside the Captiol
Politics & Policy

Watch live: Biden inauguration ceremony and events

What to watch for on Inauguration Day as Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States.

5 years ago

The scene outside the Convention Center Saturday afternoon.
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Philly has a wish list ready for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

Philly helped deliver Joe Biden and Kamala Harris their Election Day win. Here’s how he could repay the city, residents say.

5 years ago

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