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February 15, 2021 at 5:00 am

Ambassador sweepstakes underway as figures jockey for plum posts

WASHINGTON - Harry M. Reid's phone has been ringing a lot lately, with calls from interest groups, friends and potential candidates themselves, all craving one...

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February 7, 2021 at 7:14 am

Inside Biden’s decision to go it alone with Democrats on coronavirus relief

WASHINGTON - Partway through a two-hour Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden about his coronavirus relief package, several Republican senators thought they might have...

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February 3, 2021 at 7:24 am

Biden moves quickly to make his mark on federal courts

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden's top advisers have spent months building an extensive pipeline of judicial nominees to fill court vacancies throughout the country, attempting...

January 27, 2021 at 5:54 pm

One week in, Biden embracing order, routine

WASHINGTON - Almost every day of his young tenure, President Joe Biden has entered the State Dining Room, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln looking down...

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January 21, 2021 at 5:08 pm

In first full day in office, Biden tackles multiple crises

President Joe Biden raced Thursday to show he was addressing the array of crises awaiting him on his first day in office, issuing executive orders...

January 20, 2021 at 8:34 pm

Harris to delay move into vice president’s home

WASHINGTON - Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emoff will not be immediately moving into the Naval Observatory while work is done on...

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January 16, 2021 at 5:08 pm

Biden plans a flurry of executive orders, new legislation for first days as president

President-elect Joe Biden plans to swiftly alter the shape of the U.S. government with an aspirational inauguration speech, a legislative package aimed at coronavirus recovery...

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January 10, 2021 at 5:34 am

For anti-Trump Americans, calamity spurs a muted sense of vindication

For the past four years, a parade of Democrats and establishment Republicans had shouted alarm about the noxious brand of politics that President Donald Trump...

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November 24, 2020 at 5:32 pm

Transition revs up as roadblocks fall

After weeks of delay, uncertainty and lawsuits, President-elect Joe Biden's team plunged Tuesday into a formal transition, with Biden aides beginning to meet with agency...

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November 21, 2020 at 4:42 pm

Joe Biden spent much of the general election in his basement. Now, he and his aides ponder a very public inauguration.

Joe Biden spent months of his presidential campaign safely ensconced in his basement, communicating to the country via a television camera. His convention speech was...

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