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Biden prioritizes experience with Cabinet picks
Competence is making a comeback.
‘America is back’: Biden pushes past Trump era with nominees
Declaring “America is back,” President-elect Joe Biden introduced his national security team on Tuesday, his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by relying on experts from the Democratic establishment to be some of his most important advisers.
Keep the mask: A vaccine won’t end Covid crisis right away
Don’t even think of putting the mask away anytime soon.
Can you repeat that? Hearing trouble more obvious with masks
As nurse Teri Wheat made her rounds at a Texas maternity ward, she began to realize she was having a hard time understanding the new mothers who were wearing masks due to the coronavirus pandemic.
NYC’s first African-American mayor, David Dinkins, has died
David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City’s first African-American mayor, but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemployment and his mishandling of a riot in Brooklyn, has died. He was 93.
Biden signals sharp shift from Trump with Cabinet picks
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped Obama-era officials for top national security and economic roles, signaling a stark shift from the Trump administration’s “America First” policies that disparaged international alliances and favored deregulation and tax cuts.
Biden’s transition gets green light as Trump relents
The federal government recognised President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov 3 election on Monday, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy. He relented after suffering yet more legal and procedural defeats in his seemingly futile effort to overturn the election with baseless claims of fraud.
John Kerry chosen as Biden’s climate tsar
Former US secretary of state John Kerry will act as "climate tsar" when US President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Biden expected to nominate Blinken as secretary of state
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of state, according to multiple people familiar with the Biden team’s planning.
Trump’s legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none
As they frantically searched for ways to salvage President Donald Trump’s failed reelection bid, his campaign pursued a dizzying game of legal hopscotch across six states that centered on the biggest prize of all: Pennsylvania.