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President Joe Biden appeared to boost his goal for coronavirus vaccinations in his first 100 days in office, suggesting the nation could soon be injecting 1.5 million shots on an average per day.

“We’re exploring ways to speed up that effort,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.

The Justice Department’s inspector general is launching an investigation to examine whether any former or current department officials “engaged in an improper attempt” to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election

The Supreme Court has brought an end to lawsuits over whether Donald Trump illegally profited off his presidency

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday to boost government buying from U.S. manufacturers, as talks with Congress over a $1.9 trillion stimulus package that he considers essential to the nation’s recovery showed few signs of progress.

The House impeachment case against Donald Trump has been delivered to the Senate for his upcoming trial.

President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order to reverse a Pentagon policy that largely bars transgender individuals from joining the military.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is working from isolation at home a day after announcing he’s tested positive for COVID-19

Sarah Sanders, Donald Trump’s former chief spokeswoman and one of his closest aides, announced Monday she’s running for Arkansas governor, vying for political office even as the former president’s legacy is clouded by an impeachment charge that he incited the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol

Top aides to President Joe Biden have begun talks with a group of moderate Senate Republicans and Democrats on Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.

Federal law enforcement officials are examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second trial of former President Donald Trump nears.

The newly appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Sunday that the federal government remains in the dark about just how much vaccine is currently available and warned that states like New York won’t be able to quickly replenish its limited supply, NBC News reports.

Republican lawmakers in several more states want to loosen gun restrictions by allowing people to carry concealed firearms without having to get a permit, continuing a trend that gun control advocates call dangerous.

Argentina’s groundbreaking abortion law has gone into force under the watchful eyes of women’s groups and government officials, who hope to ensure its full implementation despite opposition from conservative and church groups.

A growing number of Republican senators say they oppose holding an impeachment trial.

President Joe Biden on Monday will formally reinstate COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-U.S. travelers from Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 other European countries that allow travel across open borders, according to two White House officials.

New President Joe Biden is already being spotted in Washington, D.C., neighborhoods.  Four days after Inauguration Day, the president attended Mass on Sunday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown and then his motorcade made a stop at the deli Call Your Mother.  Biden waved to a crowd of cheering onlookers near the bagel shop at 35...

Police departments across the country are reviewing the behavior of dozens of officers who were in Washington on the day of the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol

As one of his first acts, President Joe Biden offered a sweeping immigration overhaul that would provide a pathway to U.S. citizenship for the estimated 11 million people who are in the country illegally

The new secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, is giving his senior leaders two weeks to send in reports on sexual assault prevention programs in the military

The U.S. Census Bureau is suspending efforts to create neighborhood-level statistics on the citizenship and age of residents, using 2020 census data

Then-President Donald Trump considered replacing acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen in January with Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Clark, who was willing to help Trump push his claims of widespread voter fraud in order to overturn the election results, according to a Justice Department official. Trump ultimately decided against firi...

Key moderate Republicans in the Senate dismissed quick action on President Joe Biden’s top priority of a $1.9 trillion economic package, indicating that the $1,400 stimulus payments he requested could take months, or never arrive, NBC News reports. Democrats need to convince 10 Republicans in the Senate, which might require asking for less fu...

President Joe Biden pledged in his inaugural address to level with the American people — and the message from his first three days in office has been nothing if not grim and grimmer

Democrats are planning to move quickly on one of the first bills of the new Congress, which would set federal election standards that would mandate early voting, same-day registration and other voting rights reforms

Right-wing extremism has previously mostly played out in isolated pockets of America or in smaller cities

A man from Texas whom federal officials have charged with breaching the U.S. Capitol allegedly made online threats against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a U.S. Capitol police officer. Last week, Garrett Miller joined the growing list of people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 assault on the nation’s capitol. He was taken into custody...

Anti-abortion leaders who were elated a year ago when Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to appear in person at the annual March for Life are feeling less buoyant now.

People following a movement that promotes violence and a second U.S. civil war have been showing up at protests across the nation armed and wearing tactical gear.

Mike Lindell, the businessman better known to the world as the MyPillow Guy, is weighing a run for governor in Minnesota.

Inside the White House, President Joe Biden has presided over a focused launch of his administration

A Pennsylvania legislator shared on Facebook an image mocking the appearance of the state’s recently departed health secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman who has been nominated to serve in the Biden administration.

The words of Donald Trump supporters who are accused of participating in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot may end up being used against him in his Senate impeachment trial as he faces the charge of inciting a violent insurrection.

A group that counts political detentions says Russian police have arrested more than 3,000 protesters who took to the streets across the country in temperatures as low as minus-50 C (minus-58 F) to demand the release of Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe

Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a massive military bureaucracy, but also with a challenge that hits closer to home: rooting out racism and extremism in the ranks

Donald Trump is shunning the “ex-presidents club” — and the feeling is mutual

New President Joe Biden unveiled a bold immigration plan just days ago

Dr. Deborah Birx, who had been one of the White House’s chief coronavirus response coordinators, said Friday she considered quitting under former President Donald Trump, whose cavalier attitude toward combatting the disease created consternation among public health officials. Birx, in a clip of released by CBS News’ ...

In a sweeping immigration reform bill, President Joe Biden proposed removing the term “alien” from U.S. immigration laws and replacing it with the word “noncitizen,” marking a stark break from the previous administration which encouraged the use of the term “alien.” The bill, which also seeks to provide an e...

President Joe Biden has directed his intelligence community to study the threat of domestic extremism in the United States

Moments after President Joe Biden was sworn into office, the White House website was updated to be more inclusive to those who identify outside of the gender binary.

Lloyd J. Austin, a West Point graduate who rose to the Army’s elite ranks and marched through racial barriers in a 41-year career, won Senate confirmation Friday to become the nation’s first Black secretary of defense. The 93-2 vote gave President Joe Biden his second Cabinet member; Avril Haines was confirmed on Wednesday as the first ...

President Joe Biden is taking executive action to provide a stopgap measure of financial relief to millions of Americans

The Kremlin has welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposal to extend the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the two countries, which is set to expire in less than two weeks

The complaint called for the committee to investigate Giuliani’s conduct, including his comments at a rally before rioters stormed into the U.S. Capitol, and to suspend his law license immediately while any investigation is being done.

After surviving nearly a year of darts and undermining comments from former President Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci is back.

The clearest sign that there’s a new boss at the White House is the deference being paid to coronavirus public health guidelines

The Biden administration has suspended new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on U.S. lands and waters for 60 days as officials move to reverse the energy and environmental policies of the Trump administration

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to send the article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, launching the start of the former president’s trial on a charge of incitement of insurrection over the deadly Capitol riot.

Former President Donald Trump’s love of Diet Coke was widely reported after he took office.

Seven Democratic senators filed a complaint urging an investigation GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley’s efforts to overturn the presidential election results.

Congress has sent President Biden the first bill that he’ll sign into law, a measure to allow retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as President Joe Biden’s secretary of defense

The White House says President Joe Biden has proposed to Russia a five-year extension of a nuclear arms treaty that is otherwise set to expire in February

The vice president and her husband are holding off on moving into the residence at the Naval Observatory, which was built in 1893.

For over 75 years, U.S. presidents and first families have taken part in a long-honored tradition of going by nicknames symbolic of their personalities or legacies.

President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, is headed down a smooth path to quick confirmation

President Joe Biden is putting into play his national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks

President Joe Biden’s top adviser on the pandemic says the United States will again fund the World Health Organization and join its consortium aimed at sharing coronavirus vaccines fairly around the globe

President Joe Biden has given the Oval Office a slight makeover.

The Biden administration late Wednesday ordered a pause on some deportations for 100 days starting no later than Friday as it reviews enforcement policies, NBC News reports.

President Joe Biden’s inauguration represents a new high point for Democrats, who have assumed control of Congress and expelled Donald Trump from the White House.

As President Joe Biden signed executive orders on his first day as Commander-in-Chief, the face of a California civil rights icon who changed the life of farm workers across the nation was visible in the Oval Office.

Mindy Kaling is sharing how much Kamala Harris’ historic election matters to her children.

President Joe Biden is moving swiftly to dismantle Donald Trump’s legacy on his first day in office, signing a series of executive actions that reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

World leaders welcomed into their ranks the new U.S. President Joe Biden, noting their most pressing problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, require multilateral cooperation, an approach his predecessor Donald Trump ridiculed.

President Joe Biden’s inauguration has sown a mixture of anger, confusion and disappointment among believers in the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.

President Biden has already signed a flurry of executive orders Wednesday and is expected to sign more in the coming days and weeks ahead. NBC 7’s political reporter Priya Sridhar takes a look at what we might expect

President Joe Biden says he plans to review the Trump administration’s downsizing of two sprawling national monuments in the American Southwest

Biden’s performance today was on par for Democrats

President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day announcements on immigration are far-reaching

The incoming director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is arriving at an agency that has been relegated to the sidelines during the coronavirus pandemic.

Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday and shared a message of unity that brought a sense of optimism to San Diego area Democrats and was welcomed by San Diego’s lone Republican congress member.

Three new senators were sworn into office Wednesday after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, securing the majority for Democrats in the Senate and across a unified government to tackle the new president’s agenda at a time of unprecedented national challenges. In a first vote, the Senate confirmed Biden’s nominee for Director of N...

In his inaugural address to an America still reeling amid a deadly pandemic and heightened political divisions, President Joe Biden emphasized unity and collective strength as he set out to help the country overcome its many challenges.

Troops in riot gear lined the streets of the nation’s capitol, but there were no crowds. Armored vehicles and concrete barriers blocked the empty streets around the U.S. Capitol. From behind miles of fencing, Joe Biden was safely sworn in as president in a Washington on edge, two weeks after pro-Trump rioters besieged the U.S. Capitol. Law enforcem...

As President Joe Biden takes office, he inherits: The worst disease outbreak in over a century, which is spreading faster and killing more people in the U.S. than at any time since it began one year ago. Highly effective vaccines that so far have reached only 4% of the public. An economy struggling with 10 million jobless and millions more…...

China has imposed sanctions on nearly 30 former Trump administration officials as they made their way out the door

President Joe Biden on Wednesday is extending the payment pause on federal student loans through September 2021 in one of his first actions after inauguration.

A full-throated, supremely confident Lady Gaga belted out the national anthem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in a very Gaga way — with flamboyance, fashion and passion.

Read the full text of Joseph R. Biden’s Inaugural Address, as delivered on Jan. 20, 2021: Chief Justice Roberts, Vice President Harris, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, Vice President Pence, and my distinguished guests, my fellow Americans. This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day of history and ...

Biden says duty of all Americans, especially elected leaders, is ‘to defend the truth and defeat the lies’

Kamala Harris marked her historic inauguration on Wednesday by donning clothes from two young, emerging Black designers. The first female, Black, and South Asian vice president of the United States, Harris wore a purple coat designed by Christopher John Rogers and shoes by Sergio Hudson, with her signature pearl necklace, NBC News confirmed. Rogers...

Trump continued an Inauguration Day custom by leaving a personal notes to his successor. The tradition dates back to at least the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan handed off power to George H.W. Bush.

A Capitol police officer hailed as a hero for his actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol is accompanying Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at the inauguration of Harris and President-elect Joe Biden.

As Joe Biden prepares to be sworn in to office on Inauguration Day, his grandchildren have turned to some close friends for guidance about being in the public eye as family members of a president. The Biden grandchildren have leaned on Malia and Sasha Obama, the daughters of former President Barack Obama, who grew up in the public ey...

Hours after President Donald Trump left the White House, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States alongside Kamala Harris as his Vice President. See the moment in photos.

Kamala Harris’ historic vice presidency will introduce a dynamic second family to the nation, one that represents not only who she is at her core, but is a profound celebration of blended, multigenerational family units.

Donald Trump released current and former members of his administration from the terms of their ethics pledge

The inauguration of Kamala Harris as vice president will mark an expansion of what’s possible in American politics.

Joe Biden has sworn the oath of office to become the 46th president of the United States, declaring that “democracy has prevailed.”

Joe Biden has sworn the oath of office to become the 46th president of the United States, declaring that “democracy has prevailed.” History was made at his side, as Kamala Harris became the first woman to be vice president.

His presidency over, Donald Trump has bid farewell to Washington, but he’s also hinted at a comeback

With chants of “Long live Kamala Harris,” fireworks and prayers, residents of a tiny Indian village celebrated her inauguration as U.S. vice president