WASHINGTON — Deep in the deadliest coronavirus wave and facing worrisome new mutations, President Joe Biden will kick off his national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that Americans mask up for travel. Biden also will address inequities...
Biden Revokes Trump Report Promoting ‘Patriotic Education’
President Joe Biden revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote “patriotic education” in schools but that historians mocked and rejected as political propaganda. In an executive order signed on Wednesday in his first day in office, Biden disbanded Donald Trump’s presidential 1776 Commission and withdrew a report it released...
Bust of Labor Leader Cesar Chavez From Kern County Now on Display in Oval Office
[aggregation-styles] KGET-Television (KGET) — A bronze bust of Cesar Chavez is now part of the decoration in President Joe Biden’s Oval Office. The Chavez Foundation posted photos of the bust online. The bust had been at the visitor center of the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument, but it was moved...
World Leaders Cheer US Return to Climate Fight Under Biden
BERLIN — 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 over the past four years. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron were...
Democrats Gain Senate Control as New Members Take Oath
WASHINGTON — 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. Vice President Kamala Harris drew applause as she entered...
Biden Repudiates White Supremacy, Calls for Racial Justice
Rare for an inaugural address, President Joe Biden issued a strong repudiation of white supremacy and domestic terrorism seen on the rise under Donald Trump. In his speech Wednesday, Biden denounced the “racism, nativism, fear, demonization,” that propelled the assault on Capitol Hill by an overwhelmingly white mob of Trump...
Immigrants Cheered by Possible Citizenship Path Under Biden
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Immigrants cheered President Joe Biden's plan to provide a path to U.S. citizenship for about 11 million people without legal status, mixing hope with guarded optimism Wednesday amid a seismic shift in how the American government views and treats them. The newly inaugurated president moved to reverse...
Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman: ‘Even as We Grieved, We Grew.’
NEW YORK — In one of the inaugurations's most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world “even as we grieved, we grew." The 22-year-old Gorman referenced everything from Biblical scripture and “Hamilton,” and at times echoed the oratory...
2 Guardsmen With Ties To Right-Wing Militias Axed From Inauguration Mission
[aggregation-styles] Politico Two U.S. Army National Guard members are being removed from the security mission to secure Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration. A U.S. Army official and a senior U.S. intelligence official say the two National Guard members have been found to have ties to fringe right group militias. No plot...
Biden Pandemic Plan: Control Virus and Stabilize the Economy
WILMINGTON, Del. — The coronavirus action plan President Joe Biden is unveiling Thursday aims to bring new urgency to the nation's vaccination campaign coupled with another round of economic relief for hunkered-down Americans. The Biden plan comes as a divided nation remains caught in the grip of the pandemic’s most...