Here’s Joe Biden’s Message To Republicans Who Won’t Acknowledge He Won
“I find this more embarrassing for the country than debilitating for my ability to get started,” the president-elect said in a news conference.
“I find this more embarrassing for the country than debilitating for my ability to get started,” the president-elect said in a news conference.
“I feel like a drain on the system, but at the same time, I’m still helping a little bit.
I know this will sound crazy.
Lorenzo Meloni / MagnumIn the aftermath of the electoral defeat of Donald Trump, who has inflicted so much gratuitous harm on the United States—including making unfounded accusations of election fraud and declaring himself the victor, a malicious lie that is undermining the integrity of American democracy—there is an understandable temptation among those on the winning side to seek revenge and settle scores with Trump and Trumpworld.
Moderna said that its vaccine was more than 94 percent effective, a week after Pfizer released its own promising results.
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The Atlantic has hired Caitlin Dickerson as a staff writer, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced today. Dickerson will write about immigration and the American experience, and begins with The Atlantic in January. She joins from The New York Times, where she has been a national immigration reporter since 2016.In a note to the newsroom announcing the hire, Goldberg wrote: “Caitlin is an indefatigable reporter with a deep magazine sensibility and great moral purpose.
“The vaccines are effective. We want to get it approved as quickly as we possibly can,” said the nation’s top infectious disease expert.
For the past three presidential elections, New York’s Twenty-First Congressional District—a humongous swath of rural, mountainous territory known as the North Country that’s closer to Canada than to the Big Apple—has voted along with the nation: Its constituents backed Barack Obama twice before flipping to Donald Trump in 2016.
“It’s a blessing within itself for me to even be sitting here right now,” says Ronnie Long, free after 44 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Long, who is African American, was convicted in 1976 of raping a white woman by an all-white jury and sentenced to 80 years in prison.
A nearly three-decade-old ceasefire has ended in occupied Western Sahara — what many consider to be Africa’s last colony. Fighting has broken out in several areas between the Moroccan military and the Polisario Front, the Sahrawi liberation movement seeking independence, after the Moroccan military broke into a no-go buffer zone in southern Western Sahara.
The once-feared tabloid has been in a tailspin since it got involved with Donald Trump.
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The tabloid built its business on some of the same wild tactics it used to catch its biggest scoops.
We can save lives—and businesses. Let’s get it right this time.
The politicization of mask-wearing shows how difficult it will be for Joe Biden to build consensus around even basic public health strategies after he’s sworn in.
The nation’s testing capacity has increased, but not fast enough to keep pace with the swarm of new cases.
Biden’s transition team must plan for a crisis response without access to essential information about the nation’s supply chains and testing supplies.
The news comes days after Pfizer revealed that initial data suggest its vaccine is more than 90 percent effective.
Care facilities can’t keep the virus out as it spreads through communities.
He says it’s my responsibility as the sender to follow up.
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When Dad’s Garage Theatre became a polling place, its staff decided to offer voters more than lines and ballots.
Biden will inherit an economy similar to one he and Obama did 12 years ago. But unlike last time, he’ll have few tools to deal with it.
The latest episode of POLITICO’s Global Translations podcast explores the new industrial policy emerging in America to counter China’s ascent.
The economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds.
The gains are a sign of positive trader sentiment, although it’s unclear if that has to do with hopes of a clear winner emerging.
Trump got a great economic report to use on the campaign trail. But behind the surface, giant risks are looming.
In Florida, tens of thousands of newly eligible voters who were previously disenfranchised due to their criminal records turned out to the polls for the 2020 election. Amendment 4, a measure that in 2018 overturned a Jim Crow-era law aimed at keeping African Americans from voting, restored voting rights to people with nonviolent felonies who have completed their sentences and was hailed as the biggest win for voting rights in decades.