WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called for urgent action on the coronavirus pandemic as he introduced a health care team that will be tested at every turn while striving to restore the nation to normalcy.Biden laid out three COVID-19 priorities for his first 100 days in office: a call for all Americans to voluntarily mask up during those 100 days, a commitment to administer 100 million vaccines and a pledge to try to reopen a majority of the nation's schools.“I know that out of our collective pain, we will find our collective purpose: to control the pandemic, to save lives, and to heal as a nation," Biden said.The president-elect also said he would use the power of the federal government to require people to wear.

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James Carafano: If Biden pursues open-border policy it will pose grave public health risk during pandemic

On the campaign trail, Joe Biden promised to be President Trump’s antithesis on border and immigration issues. Basically, Biden — whose victory was declared Monday by the Electoral College — pledged to do the opposite of everything Trump did regarding illegal immigration.

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Joe Biden praises President Trump for ‘getting the vaccine moving’

Joe Biden praised President Trump for "getting the vaccine moving" as the treatment for fighting the coronavirus began to make its way across the U.S."I think what he’s done, getting the vaccine moving, has been positive," Biden told host Stephen Colbert during an appearance on "The Late Show."Biden’s remarks came less than a week after the U.S.

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Mike Pence gets COVID-19 vaccine on SNL

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence received the COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday Night Live before being joined by president-elect Joe Biden, with Alex Moffat taking over the role after Jim Carrey left the show, and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris.

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‘SNL’ cold open reveals who will play Joe Biden post-Jim Carrey

Saturday Night Live returned this week with a cold open featuring a coronavirus vaccination — and who will now play Joe Biden after Jim Carrey’s exit from the role.The scene starts with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, played by Beck Bennett, about to get the vaccine.

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'SNL': Maya Rudolph's Kamala Harris Introduces New Joe Biden After Jim Carrey Announces Departure

Jim Carrey took to Twitter to announce he'd no longer be guest starring as Joe Biden on, the show revealed who would be taking on the role.The sketch was loosely based on Vice President Mike Pence (Beck Bennett) getting his COVID-19 vaccine shot on live TV, and soon became a political impression parade with a visit from Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph).Rudolph's Harris made a strong impression when she slapped Bennett's Pence in the face at his suggestion of voter fraud allegations, which elicited the largest cheer of the sketch.

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Jim Carrey is done playing Joe Biden on ‘SNL’

tweeted on Saturday. “I would love to go forward knowing that Biden was the victor because I nailed that s–t.

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Biden environmental team heavy on experience, diversity

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden hopes the environmental team he is set to introduce on Saturday will steer America toward greater action to curb climate change and protect the nation’s air and water.Donald Trump’s presidency has been marked by efforts to boost oil and gas production while rolling back government efforts intended to safeguard the environment. The incoming Biden team will try to undo or block many of the current administration’s initiatives.

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Joe Biden’s 5 tech priorities

Section 230: Little law, big reachSection 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act is the legal principle that makes today’s internet possible—from Facebook, Twitter and TikTok to YouTube, Discord and Twitch. It protects companies from being held liable for what their users do online.This made sense when online services were little more than tools for creating virtual billboards and mailing lists, but many of today’s platforms have evolved to include powerful artificial-intelligence algorithms that determine what shows up in people’s feeds.

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Biden transition team criticizes cooperation from Pentagon

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden's transition team expressed frustration Friday with the level of cooperation they're getting from political appointees at the Department of Defense, saying there has been “an abrupt halt in the already limited cooperation there."Biden's transition team has been meeting with officials at various agencies to get detailed reviews of the programs and challenges the new administration will inherit, a process that was delayed when the General Services Administration declined to issue an official ascertainment that Biden had won the election.

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Covid vaccine: Joe Biden to receive jab Monday, Kamala Harris in 2 weeks

Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, a transition official informed.Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will get their first doses the following week.The announcement came hours after Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranking government officials to receive their first doses of a Covid-19 vaccine that could eventually put an end to the raging pandemic.Meanwhile, recent polls have shown that confidence in the Covid-19 vaccine is increasing but that many Americans still harbor doubts.Trump said he will take Covid vaccineUS President Donald Trump has said he will take the vaccine, but hasn’t said when.

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Biden to get vaccine on Monday, Pence says 'didn't feel a thing' as he gets dose

Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, will get COVID-19 vaccine doses on Monday, while Vice President Mike Pence and the leaders of the House and Senate received their first doses on Friday reassuring the public that the shot is safe. However, President Donald Trump remained largely out of sight for five days during the largest vaccination campaign in American history.Speaking at a television event, Pence described the milestone as “a medical miracle" that could eventually put an end to the pandemic that has killed more than 310,000 people in America alone.“I didn’t feel a thing.

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Sir David Attenborough 'punched the air' after Donald Trump lost US election to Joe Biden

Sir David Attenborough has told how he leapt from his chair and punched the air in delight after climate change-denier Donald Trump lost the US Presidential election.

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Joe Biden & Kamala Harris' COVID-19 Vaccination Dates Revealed

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be getting their first doses of the coronavirus vaccine very soon.

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Biden may time confirmation votes to protect House majority

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to tap several House Democrats for administrative positions is putting Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically tough spot, having chiseled away at the party’s already slimming majority and leaving her potentially without enough votes to pass his legislative agenda.Democrats already were heading into the new Congress with a razor-thin margin over Republicans. But Biden’s overture to a third lawmaker, Rep.

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Tom Homan: Biden's border crisis is already brewing and it will accelerate COVID spread in the US

‘Tis the season to be jolly for smugglers of drugs and illegal immigrants into the U.S. across our border with Mexico.They know things are about to change in the U.S.

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The Latest: Biden marks anniversary of deaths of wife, child

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):8:05 a.m.President-elect Joe Biden has marked the 48th anniversary of the accident that killed his first wife and baby daughter by attending Mass at the church where they are buried.Neilia Biden and the couple’s 13-month old daughter, Naomi, were killed when their car was struck by a tractor-trailer as she took the kids to pick out a Christmas tree.Sons Hunter and Beau were seriously injured. They were a year and a day apart in age, at 3 and 4.Joe Biden had just been elected to the Senate and was in Washington setting up his new office at the time of the accident.Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attended the Friday morning service in Delaware at St.

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Iran builds at underground nuclear facility amid US tensions

DUBAI – Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic program, satellite photos obtained Friday by The Associated Press show.Iran has not publicly acknowledged any new construction at Fordo, whose discovery by the West in 2009 came in an earlier round of brinkmanship before world powers struck the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

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Transition stumbles test Biden's bond with Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden brings more Capitol Hill experience than any president in decades, but his transition has stumbled in ways large and small, exposing the challenges of navigating a Congress that is a different place than when he last served in 2009.He rolled out an almost all-white national security team when allies were expecting diversity. He filled top posts with familiar Washington hands rather than fresh newcomers.

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Ingraham: 'Left-wing loafers' of teachers' unions 'killing the kids' with insistence on school closures

Teachers' unions are anxious for President-elect Joe Biden to take office so they can further consolidate their power, Laura Ingraham told viewers Thursday. "The Ingraham Angle" host discussed reports that the race to be the next education secretary is between American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Lily Eskelsen Garcia, the head of the National Education Association. "Do you really think either of those women has any interest in doing what's best for your kids?" Ingraham asked.

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President-Elect Joe Biden is Asking People to Watch His Inauguration From Home Amid Pandemic

President-Elect Joe Biden is asking for people to stay home on Inauguration Day.

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Virginia gubernatorial candidate says ‘Trump should declare martial law’

Virginia Republican state Sen. Amanda Chase, an outspoken Trump supporter and gubernatorial hopeful, doubled down on disputed voter fraud claims and said Thursday that her state needs an election audit – through martial law, if necessary.

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Biden adviser Cedric Richmond tests positive for coronavirus

WILMINGTON, Del. – One of President-elect Joe Biden’s closest advisers tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, according to his transition team.Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond, who is set to resign from Congress to join the incoming Biden administration as a senior adviser, tested positive two days after traveling to Atlanta to attend a campaign rally that Biden headlined for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and the Rev.

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US inmate scheduled to be executed tests positive for virus

WASHINGTON – A federal prisoner scheduled to be executed just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus, his lawyer said Thursday. The Bureau of Prisons notified attorneys for Dustin John Higgs on Thursday that their client had tested positive for the virus, his attorney Devon Porter said during a court hearing Thursday afternoon.The revelation comes amid concern about an exploding number of coronavirus cases in the federal prison system and specifically at the complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, where the executions are carried out.

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Biden to pick New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, AP sources say

Representative Debra Haaland (D-NM) speaks during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on "The US Park Police Attack on Peaceful Protesters at Lafayette Square", on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2020. President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate New Mexico Rep.

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President-elect Biden picks North Carolina environmental chief Michael Regan to lead EPA

view of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters on March 16, 2017 in Washington, DC ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)North Carolina - President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday offered the leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency to Michael S.

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Ian McKellen, Biden — and Trudeau? Experts torn on when VIPs should get COVID-19 shot

coronavirus vaccine as nations such as Canada and the United States start to roll out the shot.U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, 78, will get the coronavirus vaccine as soon as next week, according to officials.

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Chemist Nancy Goroff eyes national stage despite losing race for Congress

Jeffrey MervisLast month, chemist Nancy Goroff failed to unseat Representative Lee Zeldin (R–NY) and become the first female science Ph.D. in the U.S.

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Joe Biden to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine As Soon As Next Week, Mike Pence Will Be Vaccinated Friday

President-elect Joe Biden will reportedly receive the Coronavirus vaccine as soon as next week.

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Time magazine names Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Person of the Year

SAN FRANCISCO - Highly anticipated? Maybe. Tradition? Definitely.

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Biden hails transportation nominee Buttigieg as 'new voice'

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden has introduced his one-time Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for transportation secretary, saying the 38-year-old can be “a new voice" in the fight against economic inequality, institutional racism and climate change. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, would be the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet position.

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Covid vaccine: President-elect Joe Biden to get vaccine next week, Mike Pence on Friday

coronavirus as soon as next week, transition officials have said, as the American authorities try to boost public confidence in a measure that promises to stanch the deadly pandemic.Vice President Mike Pence will get the Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, the White House announced on Wednesday.Also Read | Finally, good news on white-collar jobsBoth Biden and Pence will receive the dose publicly in an effort to build national confidence in the safety of the vaccine, which will become widely available to the public in 2021.Pence and his wife Karen Pence "will publicly receive a Covid-19 vaccine to promote the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and build confidence among the American people," the White House said in a statement.This comes in the

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Biden to receive coronavirus vaccine next week, Pence set to be vaccinated Friday

Joe Biden will get the coronavirus vaccine as soon as next week, transition officials said on Wednesday, as U.S. authorities try to build public confidence in a measure that promises to stanch the deadly pandemic.Vice President Mike Pence will get the vaccine on Friday, the White House said.

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Biden to take presidential oath outside Capitol amid COVID-19 restrictions

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris aim to take their oaths of office outside the U.S. Capitol building as inauguration planners seek to craft an event that captures the traditional grandeur of the historic ceremony while complying with COVID-19 protocols.Biden's team released some broad details for the Jan.

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U.S. election: Biden jokes it ‘feels like’ he won Georgia 3 times after recount, audit

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday, while campaigning for Democratic senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Georgia, joked that he felt like he had won the state three times after an audit of the election involving a hand recount, as well as a recount requested by President Donald Trump’s campaign.

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Joe Biden to get coronavirus vaccine as soon as next week, official confirms

US President-elect Joe Biden is set to get the coronavirus vaccine as early as next week, an official has said.

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Vice President Mike Pence, wife will receive COVID-19 vaccine Friday in live broadcast

WASHINGTON - Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen will both receive the coronavirus vaccine during a live broadcast Friday, according to the White House. Pence’s planned vaccination on camera follows an announcement from President Donald Trump Sunday that he was reversing an administration directive to vaccinate top government officials against COVID-19 while public distribution of the shot is limited to front-line health workers and people in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.Aides to President-elect Joe Biden have been discussing when and how he should receive the vaccine and have been working to establish plans to boost virus safeguards in the West Wing to keep the 78-year-old Democrat healthy.Mike Pence stands with his

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Stay away: Thumbs down on inauguration crowds for Biden

WASHINGTON – Stay away. That's the message from the congressional committee organizing inauguration ceremonies for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

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Loeffler declines to rule out formal protest of Biden's win

ATLANTA – Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia on Wednesday declined to rule out a formal protest of Democrat Joe Biden's victory when Congress convenes next month to certify the presidential election results.It's the latest refusal by Loeffler to acknowledge Biden's victory in the Nov.

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Biden picks deal-makers, fighters for climate, energy team

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden is picking deal-makers and fighters to lead a climate team he’ll ask to remake and clean up the nation’s transportation and power-plant systems, and as fast as politically possible. While the president-elect's picks have the experience to do the heavy lifting required in a climate overhaul of the U.S.

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Senate hearing elevates baseless claims of election fraud

WASHINGTON – Republican senators on Wednesday further perpetuated President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, two days after Democrat Joe Biden’s victory was sealed by the Electoral College.Lawmakers bickered heatedly at times during a committee hearing as Democrats pushed back against the unfounded allegations and a former federal cybersecurity official who oversaw election security said continued attempts to undermine confidence in the process were corrosive to democracy.The session, held by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee over Democratic protests, elevated the groundless claims of fraud to the highest levels of government and provided two of Trump’s lawyers with one more public

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The Latest: Biden touts Cabinet diversity, names Buttigieg

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):12:15 p.m.President-elect Joe Biden says his Cabinet will be more representative of the American people than any other in U.S. history.

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Biden set to introduce Pete Buttigieg as his transportation secretary pick

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden is set to introduce former presidential rival Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday as his nominee for transportation secretary, adding a youthful voice to an incoming administration so far dominated by people with decades of Washington experience.The 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, would also be the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet post.In a tweet on Tuesday, Biden described Buttigieg, who has served as a Navy reserve intelligence officer in Afghanistan, as “a leader, patriot, and problem-solver.”The nomination was applauded by union leaders, transportation industry officials, LGBTQ activists and Democratic lawmakers as a solid pick by Biden.Former Mayor of

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Biden set to introduce Buttigieg as his transportation pick

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden is set to introduce former presidential rival Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday as his nominee for transportation secretary, adding a youthful voice to an incoming administration so far dominated by people with decades of Washington experience.The 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, would also be the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet post. In a tweet on Tuesday, Biden described Buttigieg, who has served as a Navy reserve intelligence officer in Afghanistan, as “a leader, patriot, and problem-solver.”The nomination was applauded by union leaders, transportation industry officials, LGBTQ activists and Democratic lawmakers as a solid pick by Biden.Sen.

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Iran nuclear deal members urge Tehran return to compliance

BERLIN – World powers that are part of a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran urged Tehran on Wednesday to roll back violations of the accord and return to full compliance during a virtual meeting in Vienna, a German official said. The meeting comes as the signatories to the agreement — Germany, France, Britain, China and Russia — continue to try and keep it from collapsing after the unilateral withdrawal of the United States in 2018.The three European powers have expressed hope that with the change of administrations in Washington, the U.S.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren's book 'Persist' to come out in April

NEW YORK – Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a book coming out about six key experiences and perspectives.

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U.S. election: Senate leader McConnell acknowledges Biden-Harris election victory

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday congratulated Democratic president-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris on their Nov.

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‘I trust the Electoral College’: Trump voters grudgingly accept Biden’s win

2020 U.S. election was stolen from President Donald Trump.

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McConnell warns GOP off Electoral College brawl in Congress

WASHINGTON – Fending off a messy fight that could damage Republicans ahead of Georgia Senate runoffs, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned fellow GOP senators on Tuesday not to join President Donald Trump’s extended assault on the Electoral College results.In public remarks and private warnings, McConnell worked to push ahead to the Biden era and unite a fractured Republican Party ahead of the runoff elections that will determine Senate control.First, the Republican leader heaped praise on Trump's “endless” accomplishments as he congratulated President-elect Joe Biden during a morning Senate speech.

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