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WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine for COVID origins study
Jan 28, 2021 by Rick Watts
By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA WUHAN, China (AP) — A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins…
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US boosting vaccine deliveries amid complaints of shortages
Jan 27, 2021 by Rick Watts
By JONATHAN DREW and ZEKE MILLER AP - Answering growing frustration over vaccine shortages, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. is ramping up deliveries to hard-pressed states over the next three weeks and expects…
Trump impeachment goes to Senate, testing his sway over GOP
Jan 26, 2021 by Rick Watts
By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats delivered the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate for the start of his historic trial, but Republican senators were easing off their criticism…
House sending Trump impeachment to Senate, GOP opposes trial
Jan 25, 2021 by Rick Watts
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they…
Biden ordering stopgap help as talks start on big aid plan
Jan 22, 2021 by Rick Watts
By JOSH BOAK BALTIMORE (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to take executive action Friday to provide a stopgap measure of financial relief to millions of Americans while Congress begins to consider his much larger $1.9…
Biden to sign virus measures, requires mask use to travel
Jan 21, 2021 by Rick Watts
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep in the deadliest coronavirus wave and facing worrisome new strains, President Joe Biden will initiate a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the…
Biden takes the helm as president: ‘Democracy has prevailed’
Jan 20, 2021 by Rick Watts
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” as he took the helm of a…
Trump leaves White House, says ‘It’s been a great honor’
Jan 20, 2021 by Rick Watts
By JILL COLVIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One Wednesday for the last time as president, leaving behind a legacy of chaos…
Biden has set sky-high expectations. Can he meet them?
Jan 19, 2021 by Rick Watts
By WILL WEISSERT WASHINGTON (AP) — Back when the election was tightening and just a week away, Joe Biden went big. He flew to Warm Springs, the Georgia town whose thermal waters once brought Franklin Delano…
Biden aims for unifying speech at daunting moment for US
Jan 18, 2021 by Rick Watts
By AAMER MADHANI AP - President-elect Joe Biden will take the stage for his inaugural address at perhaps the most difficult starting point for a president since Franklin Roosevelt began his first term by assuring…
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