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September 8, 2021 at 5:54 pm

Biden expected to push broad vaccination mandates

About 27% of the eligible U.S. population age 12 and older have not received any coronavirus vaccinations, according to data from the Centers for Disease...

Nation & World

In this July 4, 2012 photo, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, right, takes a walk with his father,Vice President Joe Biden, to the Green Ridge Little Baseball Field in Scranton, Pa. Beau Biden is being evaluated at a cancer center in Texas, according to people with knowledge of his condition. (AP Photo/The Scranton Times-Tribune, Butch Comegys) MANDATORY CREDIT PASCR101

September 5, 2021 at 6:01 am

Biden, still grieving his son, finds that not everyone wants to hear about it

Referring to Beau Biden with families of U.S. Marines killed in the Kabul airport bombing drew criticism, but the president remains haunted by memories of...

August 9, 2021 at 3:49 pm

U.S. Signals It Will Release Some Still-Secret Files on Saudi Arabia and 9/11

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration, under pressure from families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Monday that it intended to disclose some...

August 8, 2021 at 5:10 pm

As Taliban Captures Cities, U.S. Says Afghan Forces Must Fend for Themselves

WASHINGTON — If the Taliban had seized three provincial capitals in northern Afghanistan a year ago, like they did Sunday, the U.S. response would most...

Nation & World

President Joe Biding tours Plumbers & Gasfitters Local 5 Training Facility in Lanham, Md., Wednesday, Aug 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MDSW405 MDSW405

August 4, 2021 at 4:40 pm

Biden administration plans to require most foreign visitors to be vaccinated

The Biden administration is developing plans to require all foreign travelers to the United States to be vaccinated against COVID-19, with limited exceptions, according to...

Nation & World

August 3, 2021 at 4:44 pm

Biden has blunt words for some GOP governors on vaccines: ‘Get out of the way’

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signaled a new level of frustration Tuesday with Republican leaders in states where the highly contagious delta variant is surging,...

Nation & World

First lady Jill Biden speaks a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, June 22, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Pool via AP) WX412 WX412

June 29, 2021 at 11:30 am

Jill Biden will be on the cover of Vogue

Jill Biden, the first lady, will appear on the cover of the August issue of the magazine, continuing a long tradition that Anna Wintour, Vogue...

Life

June 16, 2021 at 10:37 am

Title IX Protections Extend to Transgender Students, Education Dept. Says

WASHINGTON — A year after the Supreme Court ruled that protections in the Civil Rights Act against discrimination in the workplace extended to gay and...

June 9, 2021 at 12:13 pm

Biden revokes and replaces executive order that sought to ban TikTok

President Biden's new executive order calls for a broader review of a number of foreign-controlled applications that could pose a security risk to Americans and...

Business

June 7, 2021 at 5:24 pm

Dreams of Ending the Filibuster Dashed, Democrats Rethink Strategy

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats confronted a narrowing set of options Monday for moving ahead with their ambitious agenda, as the reality...