Intelligence chief first Biden nominee to get US Senate approval
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Senate voted on Wednesday (Jan 20) to confirm former CIA official Avril Haines as director of national intelligence, [...]
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A first for a First Lady: Jill Biden will balance her career and East Wing duties
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – After a tumultuous four years, Americans may expect the incoming first lady, Dr Jill Biden, to return the East Wing [...]
Trump Departs Vowing, ‘We Will Be Back in Some Form’
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — President Donald J. Trump left Washington aboard Air Force One for a final time on Wednesday, the iconic [...]
Business Makes the Case for a Post-Trump Reset
A group of company leaders and former policymakers argue that “globalism” isn’t an epithet. Instead, they argue, it is the way forward. By [...]
Amid power transfer in the US, security worries grow
WASHINGTON – The Jan 6 storming of the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, and threats by radical groups around this Wednesday’s (Jan 20) [...]
Biden will kick off inaugural events at a ceremony honouring victims of Covid-19
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – US President-elect Joe Biden will arrive in the nation’s capital on Tuesday evening (Jan 19) for an inauguration eve ceremony [...]
FBI says Capitol rioter allegedly hoped to sell Pelosi laptop to Russia
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A young woman identified as having taken part in the storming of the US Capitol reportedly stole a laptop belonging [...]
An Inaugural Lockdown Comes at a Price for Washingtonians
WASHINGTON — Chuck Weathers was waiting Monday morning on a bus in Columbia Heights, a residential neighborhood of shops and quaint homes about [...]
Before the Capitol riot, there were calls for cash and talk of revolution
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Keith Lee, an air force veteran and former police detective, spent the morning of Jan 6 casing the entrances to the [...]
A Farewell to the Trump Aesthetic
Few presidents have exploited the theatrical grandeur of the job quite as enthusiastically or as cynically as Donald Trump, from his proliferating forests [...]