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Biden to announce that US will tap into strategic oil reserves, official says
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to announce Tuesday that the country will tap into strategic oil reserves to help offset a surge in gasol...
Nov 23, 2021
First lady Jill Biden accepts White House Christmas tree
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- First lady Jill Biden kicked off the holiday season in the nation's capital on Monday by accepting delivery of the official White House Christmas tree -- with all...
Nov 22, 2021
White House: 90% of federal workers, military have gotten at least one COVID shot
Morsa Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- White House: 90% of federal workers, military have gotten at least 1 COVID shot Anne Flaherty More than 90% of the nation’s 3.5 million federal workers h...
Nov 22, 2021
Dozens in Congress still vote remotely as critics slam COVID policy
dkfielding/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Millions of American workers have returned to the office, and most children are back to in-person learning at schools, but dozens of members of the U.S. House of Repre...
Nov 22, 2021
'Democracy is on the line': Election officials face ongoing threats for doing their jobs
adamkaz/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Al Schmidt had a front-row seat to history when a batch of votes in Philadelphia tipped the state of Pennsylvania, and the 2020 presidential election, toward Joe Biden. A...
Nov 20, 2021
Family separated at southern border reacts to possibility of government payouts
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project(NEW YORK) -- Leticia works at a bakery helping to prepare the pastries that hungry New Yorkers order with their coffee in the morning. At first glance, she's like any ot...
Nov 20, 2021
Biden gets first physical as president, power transferred to VP Harris
Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith(WASHINGTON) -- It was a question that plagued Joe Biden's presidential campaign: Could a 77-year-old man -- who at age 78 would be the oldest person ever to...
Nov 19, 2021
House Democrats pass sweeping social spending package
uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- House Democrats passed their roughly $1.75 trillion social and climate spending package on Friday morning, even as Republicans successfully delayed a final vote. The vot...
Nov 19, 2021
Rejecting environmentalists' pleas, Biden administration plows ahead with oil lease auction
Oleg Albinsky/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration auctioned off large swaths of federally owned waters in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from oil...
Nov 18, 2021
Republican governors embrace Youngkin playbook as winning model for midterms
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images(PHOENIX) -- Republican governors are anything but "tired of winning," and in Phoenix at the annual Republican Governors Association conference, it b...
Nov 18, 2021
