Biden sworn in as U.S. president, takes helm of deeply divided nation

By Reuters,

Joe Biden arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning for his presidential inauguration, ready to take over a country battered by the coronavirus...

‘Democracy prevailed,’ Biden says after U.S. Electoral College confirms his win

By Reuters,

President-elect Joe Biden delivered a forceful rebuke on Monday to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the legitimacy of his victory, hours after wi...

Joe Biden

Trump’s legal defeats pile up

By CNN,

President Donald Trump found himself trapped in an election riddle of his own making Friday -- continuing to push false claims that the election was a...

Trump

President-elect Joe Biden seeks to unite nation with victory speech

By CNN,

President-elect Joe Biden addressed a deeply divided nation Saturday night, turning to the challenges ahead by grounding his victory speech in the spi...

Biden , kamala harris , Trump

Trump says catching COVID-19 was ‘blessing from God’

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump declared that catching the coronavirus was a “blessing from God” that exposed him to experimental treatments he vowed ...

coronavirus , Trump

What happens to the U.S. presidential election if a candidate dies or becomes incapacitated?

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was going into isolation. Trump has mild symptoms, accordin...

Trump tells black lawmaker to clean up ‘disgusting, rat and rodent infested’ district

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump hit out at a prominent African-American critic on Saturday, calling him a “brutal bully” who should concentrate on cleaning...

Elijah Cummings , Immigration , President Donald Trump

Trump may provoke U.S. lawmakers to impeach him: senior Democrat

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Democrats are reluctant to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump, but he may provoke such a move by continuing to obstruct Congress’ efforts to overse...

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Democrats ramp up pressure on Trump as Pelosi accuses Barr of ‘crime’

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Democrats intensified their pressure on President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Attorney Gene...

Venezuela’s Guaido urges troops to rise against Maduro, violence breaks out

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Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Tuesday called for a military uprising to oust President Nicolas Maduro and violence broke out at anti-gov...

Juan Guaido , President Jair Bolsonaro , President Nicolas Maduro , Venezuela

US to redraw maps to show Golan heights as Israeli territory

By VOA,

The Trump administration says it will update U.S. government maps to reflect President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over ...

Golan Heights , US

Congress on verge of rejecting Trump’s border emergency

By Reuters,

The U.S. Congress was on the verge of issuing a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump over his declaration of an emergency at the border with Mexico,...

Donald Trump , Mitch McConnell

US House Passes Gun Control Bill

By VOA,

The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday passed the most significant gun control bill in years, expanding background checks to include gun shows an...

gun , President Donald Trump , U.S

North Carolina orders new U.S. House election after ‘tainted’ vote

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North Carolina’s elections board on Thursday ordered a new election for a U.S. House seat after officials said corruption surrounding absentee ballo...

election , North Carolina , U.S

Senate breaks from Trump with Syria troop vote

By Reuters,

The Republican-led U.S. Senate backed largely symbolic legislation on Monday that broke with President Donald Trump by opposing plans for any abrupt w...

Syria , Trump

U.S. government reopens as clock starts on funding talks

By Reuters,

The U.S. government reopened fully on Monday with about 800,000 federal workers returning after a 35-day shutdown triggered by President Trump’s dem...

Federal shutdown , President Donald Trump , Speaker Nancy Pelosi , U.S-Mexico border wall , U.S. government

Backing down, Trump agrees to end shutdown without border wall money

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump agreed under mounting pressure on Friday to end a 35-day-old partial U.S. government shutdown without getting the $5.7 billion ...

Locked out of House by Pelosi, Trump vows State of Union alternative

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would hold an alternative event to the State of the Union address after Democratic leader Nancy Pelos...

pelosi , Trump

On Day 28, no sign of end to U.S. partial government shutdown

By Reuters,

As the partial U.S. government shutdown hit the four-week mark on Friday, tensions mounted in Washington on either side of the standoff over President...

Trump startled by cozy Barr-Mueller relationship

By CNN,

President Donald Trump was startled Tuesday as he watched television coverage of his nominee for attorney general describing a warm relationship with ...

Bar-Mueller relationship