Dec 30 Missouri senator to contest Electoral College win for Biden By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press A Republican senator says he'll object when Congress meets next week to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the election. Continue reading
Dec 30 Biden team announces new staff picks, highlighting effort to ‘build an administration that looks like America’ By Yamiche Alcindor President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team plans to announce Wednesday a new slate of staffers for their incoming administration and to celebrate hitting their goal of 100 diverse appointments by the end of 2020. Continue reading
Dec 29 How Biden’s Education Department will tackle pandemic and Trump-era policies By Candice Norwood Addressing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on education will be among some of the most urgent issues facing President-elect Joe Biden when he takes office. Continue reading
Dec 29 Watch 5:27 News Wrap: California extends stay-at-home orders as ICUs reach capacity In our news wrap Tuesday, California extended stay-at-home orders as some intensive care units reach capacity, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received the Moderna vaccine, the U.S. Senate deadlocks over increasing COVID relief checks, federal judges in Georgia blocked efforts to… Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch 9:04 Biden’s pick to lead the CDC: ‘We have a lot of hard work in front of us’ When President-elect Joe Biden enters the Oval Office three weeks from now, his health team will be tasked with taking over the U.S. response to COVID-19, including the vaccine rollout. One of the members of Biden's team is Dr. Rochelle… Continue watching
Dec 29 WATCH: President-elect Biden criticizes pace of coronavirus vaccine rollout By Alexandra Jaffe, Associated Press Biden says "it's gonna take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people" at the current pace. Continue reading
Dec 24 Watch 16:24 How the pandemic has exposed America’s deep divide 2020 has been a year unlike any within living memory, and one that exposed some of America's deepest divides. Judy Woodruff spoke with emergency medical physician Dr. Uche Blackstock, Eddie Glaude, of Princeton University, New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore,… Continue watching
Dec 23 Watch 5:49 News Wrap: Pfizer doubles the number of COVID vaccine doses in the U.S. In our news wrap Wednesday, Pfizer agrees to give the U.S. an additional 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, President-Elect Biden introduces Miguel Cardona as his nominee for Secretary of Education, the FBI says Iran was behind efforts to… Continue watching
Dec 23 WATCH: Biden announces nominee for education secretary By Collin Binkley, Alexandra Jaffe, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Miguel Cardona, Connecticut's education chief and a champion of public schools, to serve as education secretary. Continue reading
Dec 22 Biden picks Miguel Cardona as education secretary By Collin Binkley, Alexandra Jaffe, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press Miguel Cardona was appointed to the top education post in Connecticut just months before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in March. When schools moved to remote learning, he hurried to deliver more than 100,000 laptops to students. Continue reading