The White House coronavirus task force is warning this week that while there has been some progress in slowing the spread of the pandemic in the northern and central United States, cases are still surging in more populated states. “Stabilization in the Northern Plains, Upper Midwest, and some Rocky Mountain […]
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has chosen Brenda Mallory, an environmental lawyer who spent more than 15 years working in the federal government under both Republican and Democratic presidents, to lead the Council on Environmental Quality, according to two people close to the Biden transition team. The council […]
Three people were killed in car crashes on Wednesday evening as a powerful nor’easter rolled across the East Coast bringing up to two feet of snow and creating treacherous conditions on thousands of miles of roadways. More than 60 million people were placed under weather warnings before Winter Storm Gail […]
Trump’s director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe DELAYS report on foreign interference in election and ‘battles analysts to beef up its criticism of China’ Pre-election intel warnings cited threats from Russia, China, and Iran U.S. intel concluded Russia interfered in 2016 elections Recent discovery of massive Russia hack of U.S. […]
The US set a new record for coronavirus deaths reported in a single day on Wednesday with 3,400 amid troubles with the vaccine rollout. The harrowing tally from the COVID Tracking Project marked the fourth time daily deaths have exceeded 3,000 throughout the pandemic. All four have occurred in the […]
Joe Biden and Mike Pence are set to receive the Covid-19 vaccine soon as rollouts of the first doses continue nationwide, despite fears a monster snowstorm could hamper delivery efforts. Biden will receive the vaccine publicly as early as next week, according to officials who spoke with the Associated Press. […]
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders and the White House are nearing agreement on a roughly $900 billion coronavirus relief deal that will likely include a new round of direct payments, three sources familiar with the negotiations said Wednesday. The emerging package will include enhanced federal jobless benefits, small-business funding, and money […]
WASHINGTON — One of President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s loftiest campaign pledges was to reimagine the federal government to enforce new climate policies everywhere he can, while reclaiming the global climate leadership role abandoned by President Trump — objectives with few precedents and many barriers. His choice this week of Gina […]