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The new administration is working doggedly in its first days in office, but President Joe Biden’s four-legged companions aren’t joining in just yet. Biden’s dogs have not yet moved into the White House, a source familiar told CNN, but the pups are anticipated to arrive at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue soon. The family’s pair of German

Landing a West Wing job is a dream-come-true for most any political staffer, even with the long hours, cramped working conditions and around-the-clock pressure. Doing it remotely, it turns out, is slightly less glamorous. “I would love to have seen and been there for what it was like before Covid,” an administration official said wistfully

The White House has ordered an intelligence review of Russian misdeeds ranging from the SolarWinds hack to alleged bounties on US troops, but will pursue an agreement with Moscow on an issue of mutual concern: nuclear arms control. “Even as we work with Russia to advance US interests, so too we work to hold Russia

The Bidens moved quickly on Wednesday to fire White House chief usher Timothy Harleth, who was installed by the Trumps, two sources with knowledge have confirmed to CNN. Harleth was hired by Melania Trump in 2017 to fill the important role of chief usher. Harleth came to the White House from Trump International Hotel DC,

When Dr. Anthony Fauci returned to the White House briefing room on Thursday, he did so without the sour reality of a hostile president watching him from feet away in the Oval Office. “I can tell you, I take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the President,” Fauci told the

Both chambers of Congress on Thursday approved a waiver to permit retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to serve as secretary of defense in the Biden administration. Austin, who would be the first African American to run the department, had to be granted a waiver from a law requiring a defense secretary to wait seven years after

Newly sworn in President Joe Biden and his advisers are inheriting no coronavirus vaccine distribution plan to speak of from the Trump administration, sources tell CNN, posing a significant challenge for the new White House. The Biden administration has promised to try to turn the Covid-19 pandemic around and drastically speed up the pace of

The Defense Department will pause construction of the wall along the US-Mexico border as it reviews President Joe Biden’s executive order calling for construction to grind to a halt. The Army Corps of Engineers, which provides direction and oversight of border projects, “will take the appropriate actions in accordance with the (executive order),” said Raini

The House on Thursday approved a waiver to permit retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to serve as secretary of defense in the Biden administration. Austin, who would be the first African American to run the department, must be granted a waiver from a law requiring a defense secretary to wait seven years after active-duty service before

The Biden administration will seek a full five-year extension of a key nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia, according to a US official. The New START Treaty expires in just over two weeks on February 5. Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, will meet with President Joe Biden’s national security adviser,

It had once been a transatlantic art scandal — or at least various actors of questionable intent would have you believe it was. Overheated, confusing and laden in the end with blatant racism, the case of the White House bust of Winston Churchill still persists. President Joe Biden has removed it from the Oval Office

Questions have arisen over the constitutionality of former President Donald Trump’s impending trial in the Senate. Trump is the first president to be impeached twice and would be the first ex-president to have his impeachment tried in the Senate while out of office. House Democrats are expected to send the articles of impeachment to the

President Joe Biden is pledging to reopen most K-12 schools within 100 days — an ambitious goal as Covid cases surge and teachers across the country fight some plans to reopen. Teachers’ union leaders say they are pleased with Biden’s sense of urgency and focus, but they warn that the 100-day pledge may need to