President Biden team begins moving into White House
New press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted that she was “in the building and ready to get to work.” Psaki has scheduled the new administration’s first White House press briefing for later Wednesday.
Nearly half of Americans call Trump one of the worst presidents in history
As President Donald Trump prepared to leave the White House, 47 percent of Americans said he will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in American history, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. By comparison, Marist data…
Kamala Harris will be the first graduate of a historically black university to enter White House
As a student at Washington D.C.’s Howard University in the 1980s, Harris pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha, the country’s first Black sorority that was founded at Howard in 1908, and she has since described her fellow sorority members as her family.
The Constitution mandates when one presidency ends and the next begins
The date and time of today’s inauguration are set by 20th amendment to the Constitution, which states that “the terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January.”…
Ensuring the security of an inauguration like no other continues on an unprecedented scale. Tens of thousands of National Guard and security personnel turned downtown Washington, D.C. into a fortress less than two weeks after a mob of insurrectionists attacked…
There were major confirmation hearings on Tuesday in the Senate for President-elect Biden's nominees for three top national security posts as well as Treasury secretary. The hearings come a day before Biden's inauguration and at a time when his new…
The inauguration is now just days away and officials around the country are pulling out all the security stops. But worries kept Washington very much on edge Monday, and the FBI and National Guard are vetting those who are securing…
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report join Judy Woodruff to discuss the latest political news, including President Trump's legacy, President-elect Biden's first days in office, and how Biden will be received by Republicans.
The poet who will carry on a tradition and present her new work, "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration this week is already quite accomplished at the age of 22. Jeffrey Brown talked to Amanda Gorman to learn more,…
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