Biden To Sign Virus Measures, Requires Mask Use To Travel
Deep in the deadliest coronavirus wave and facing worrisome new strains, President Joe Biden will...
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Twin Suicide Bombings Rock Central Baghdad, at Least 32 Dead
Twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The rare suicide bombing hit the Bab al-Sharqi commercial area in central Baghdad...
Read MoreWorld Leaders Laud U.S. Return To Climate Fight Under Biden
World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunned. British Prime Minister Boris...
Read MoreU.S. Jobless Claims Decline To a Still-High 900,000
Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, lowering claims to 900,000, still a historically high level that points to further job cuts in a raging pandemic. The Labor Department’s report Thursday underscored...
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Justice Department Won’t Charge Sen. Burr Over Stock Sales
Sen. Richard Burr said Tuesday that the Justice Department has told him it will not prosecute him...
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Biden Takes the Helm as President: ‘Democracy Has Prevailed’
Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy...
Read MoreNorth Carolina, Local Government Offices in Raleigh Closed for U.S. Inauguration
Government offices are being shuttered in North Carolina’s capital as precautions against potential mayhem as Joe Biden takes his presidential oath in Washington. Municipal offices in downtown Raleigh will be closed to the...
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Trump Leaves White House, Says ‘It’s Been a Great Honor’
Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One Wednesday for...
Read More‘Shameful’: U.S. Virus Deaths Top 400K as Trump Leaves Office
As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Not to worry, Trump insisted, his administration had the virus “totally under control.” Now, in...
Read MoreTrump Pardons Ex-Strategist Steve Bannon, Dozens of Others
President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon in the final hours of his White House term as part of a flurry of clemency action that benefited more than 140 people, including rap performers, ex-members of...
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