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President Joe Biden delivered the first prime-time address of his term on Thursday night, lamenting the devastation caused by Covid-19 over the past year and touting his plans to help the country recover. Biden’s speech, which ran for just shy of 24 minutes, did not include a large number of fact-checkable assertions. But here is

The United States continues to see a massive influx of migrants along the southern border, including many children. And while Border Patrol continues to detain a growing number of children, there are some fresh signs some of those children are being moved into more appropriate shelters designed to house them. The number of unaccompanied migrant

The Democratic National Committee, in cooperation with the Biden White House, will kick off a sweeping effort to sell the newly signed Covid-19 relief package to a politically divided American people on Friday, releasing a new national ad bragging about the bill along with a detailed guide on how Democrats across the country should tout

With 50 days until the United States is supposed to complete a total withdrawal of troops and personnel from Afghanistan — a move that a Pentagon report stated could be devastating to “the survival of the Afghan state as we know it” — the Biden administration is running out of time to decide on a

When President Donald Trump received his Covid-19 vaccine at the White House in January, it was not recorded by official photographers or videographers, according to a person familiar with the matter, who said it wasn’t clear there was any photographic documentation of the moment. That alone would have made it difficult for Trump to be included in

If you were expecting President Joe Biden to take a victory lap, to boast about his remarkable achievements in just 50 days in office, it’s understandable. After four years of the former president, many of us became accustomed to self-serving rhetoric. But Biden’s first prime-time address Thursday night was something altogether different from that. “I

“Absolutely historic.” That’s how the National Weather Service in Wyoming is describing a winter storm that will hit part of the Plains and Rocky Mountain regions this weekend. Bundle up! Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to

The light at the end of the tunnel may be the fireworks bursting in air on the Fourth of July. President Joe Biden on Thursday offered Americans the tantalizing hope of a return to an all but forgotten pre-pandemic normalcy within months, escalating the “war footing” on which he has placed the nation to beat

New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced mounting political pressure on Thursday after the speaker of the state Assembly authorized the judiciary committee to begin an impeachment investigation and dozens of Democratic New York state lawmakers called for Cuomo to resign. For Cuomo, who is under fire in the wake of sexual harassment allegations and

President Joe Biden marked a year since the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the country with his first prime-time address — a speech in which he mixed hard numbers on vaccine distribution with appeals to unity and a deep-seated belief in the power of America to overcome any challenge. My takeaways from Biden’s speech, which ran

President Joe Biden’s speech Thursday night contained a long section about “the truth,” and he said the truth is that the only way to get our lives back to normal is to “beat the virus.” If he believes that, why did so little of the Covid relief bill he signed today go toward doing just

Addressing a pandemic-worn nation a year after coronavirus brought life to a halt, President Joe Biden on Thursday offered a plan to lift the country from crisis using a pair of upcoming dates: May 1, by which he will order states to allow all adults to receive vaccines; and July 4, when he said Americans

New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo was under renewed political pressure on Thursday after the speaker of the state Assembly authorized the judiciary committee to begin an impeachment investigation and dozens of Democratic New York state lawmakers called for Cuomo to resign. State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie made the decision after meeting with the Assembly

President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion relief package represents one of the largest federal efforts to reduce poverty in the last half century. The massive legislation, which the President signed Thursday, provides aid to low-income Americans in numerous ways. Attention has focused on the third round of direct stimulus payments, but the bill also offers

Merrick Garland faces multiple crises to address and politically tough decisions to make as he belatedly takes the reins at the Justice Department as attorney general. He’ll try to heal a workforce that was battered during the Trump era, deliver on President Joe Biden‘s liberal priorities and campaign promises and oversee some of the most