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U.S. Senate ready to start countdown to budget ‘vote-a-rama’

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate will cast a procedural vote Tuesday afternoon to start debate on its shell…

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Pandemic baby boom turned out to be bust despite lockdown

By Alex Tanzi

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Biden orders sweeping actions to pause drilling, fight climate change

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday a moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on public…

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FBI didn’t recover Pelosi’s laptop from the woman charged with stealing it, her lawyer says

PHILADELPHIA — FBI agents did not recover House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop from the Harrisburg woman charged with…

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Man charged in plot against Michigan Gov. Whitmer pleads guilty, will ‘fully cooperate’

DETROIT — A Hartland Township man pleaded guilty Wednesday to plotting with several others to kidnap Michigan Gov.…

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Census estimates show population decline in 16 states

By Tim Henderson

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U.S. suffers sharpest rise in poverty rate in more than 50 years

By Alex Tanzi and Catarina Saraiva

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Rudy Giuliani sued by Dominion Voting Systems for $1.3 billion

By Stephen Rex Brown

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Biden takes executive action to expand unemployment, food aid

By Chris Sommerfeldt

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Contactor Tyler Papike helps clear a fallen ponderosa tree in front of a home he was working on in California’s Bass Lake area after strong winds rip through the area overnight on January 19, 2021.

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‘Total war zone’ — Yosemite area hit hard by wind that toppled trees

FRESNO, Calif. — Lindsay Stevenson was in a camper van in the Yosemite National Park community of Wawona…

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Trump signs executive order for study of troops at ‘black goo’ base who got cancer

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one of his final acts in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order…

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U.S. Capitol Police Officer and acting deputy Senate sergeant-at-arms Eugene Goodman arrives at the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

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Heroic Capitol Police officer escorts VP Kamala Harris during inauguration

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who two weeks ago was credited with potentially saving lives…

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Joe Biden is sworn in as president during his inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to become the 46th president of the United States.

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Biden is president.

He vows to heal and unite a nation in crisis, while VP Harris makes history