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White House says Biden to hold first foreign leader call with Canada’s Trudeau on Friday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's first telephone conversion with a foreign leader will be with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and it will happen on Friday, White House Press S...
Jan 20, 2021
Senate vote on Yellen as Treasury chief unlikely until next week: sources
By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is unlikely to vote on the nomination of Janet Yellen for Treasury Secretary until next week, congressional s...
Jan 20, 2021
U.S. Senate approves Haines as Director of National Intelligence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved Avril Haines as the Director of National Intelligence, the nation's top intelligence job, making her the first of President Joe Biden's nom...
Jan 20, 2021
Republicans call for Senate review before U.S. re-enters Paris climate deal
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Republican senators on Wednesday called on newly sworn-in President Joe Biden to submit his plan to re-engage the United States in the Paris clim...
Jan 20, 2021
‘No plan, no Q, nothing’: QAnon followers reel as Biden inaugurated
By Joseph Menn, Elizabeth Culliford, Katie Paul and Carrie Monahan SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For three years, adherents of the sprawling QAnon conspiracy theory awaited a so-called Great Awak...
Jan 20, 2021
Biden takes sweeping Day One action on energy, climate, immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday began signing 15 executive actions addressing the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and racial inequality, and undoing some policies put...
Jan 20, 2021
Democrats take narrow control of U.S. Senate as three new members sworn in
By Patricia Zengerle and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats took control of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday when Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new members to give the party a n...
Jan 20, 2021
Biden’s push for more coronavirus aid to test his ‘honeymoon’ with U.S. Congress
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday signaled a willingness to work with President Joe Biden on additional money to combat the coronavirus pandemic, th...
Jan 20, 2021
Daniel Smith appointed acting U.S. secretary of state
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Daniel Smith, director of the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), has been appointed acting secretary of state following Joe Biden's swearing in as President, a White House officia...
Jan 20, 2021
Trump pardons former editor of Kushner-owned newspaper
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ken Kurson, a family friend of Donald Trump and editor of a New York newspaper once owned by the former U.S. president's son-in-law Jared Kushner, was among those pardoned by Trum...
Jan 20, 2021
