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Biden selects Haaland as native yank interior secretary

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Biden Selects adult female Haaland As 1st Native yank Interior Secretary President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate American state Representative adult female Haaland as interior secretary, in line with 2 folks at home with the choice, a historic decide that will build her the primary Native yank to steer the powerful government agency that has wielded influence over the nation’s tribes for generations. Tribal leaders and activists round the country, together with several Democratic figures, cheered Haaland’s choice once urging Biden for weeks to settle. They stood behind her movement even once considerations that Democrats may risk their majority within the House if Haaland yielded her seat in Congress perceived to threaten her nomination. With Haaland’s nomination, endemic folks can for the primary time in their lifetimes see a Native yank at the table wherever the best selections created aforementioned OJ Semans, a Rosebud Buffalo Indian vote activist UN agency was in Georgia on Th...

Biden expected to urge coronavirus vaccination early

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  Biden expected to urge coronavirus vaccination early next week President-elect Joe Biden is predicted to urge his first Covid-19 vaccination early next week and plans to urge his shot publicly. "I don't need to urge before the road , but i would like to form sure we demonstrate that it's safe to require ," Biden told reporters Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware. "When I roll in the hay , I'll roll in the hay publicly, so you'll all witness my getting it done," the President-elect said. People conversant in the plans say Biden is probably going to urge his shot next week. The delay has not been borne out of hesitation, aides say, but rather logistics of administering the shot during a public setting. Biden told this month that he would be happy to receive a coronavirus vaccine once Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top communicable disease expert, said it had been safe, which he would get the injection during a public setting to demonstrate his con...

McConnell recognizes Biden as President

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  McConnell for the primary time recognizes Biden as President-elect Senate legislator Mitch McConnell for the primary time acknowledged Joe Biden's victory and mentioned him as President-elect, six weeks after polling day and amid President Donald Trump's continued refusal to accept defeat. "The body has spoken," McConnell said in remarks from the Senate floor within the US Capitol, adding, "Today i would like to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden." McConnell's comments are significant as long as many Senate Republicans still wouldn't recognize Biden's victory on Monday evening even after the body made the win official. Behind the scenes, McConnell also urged Republican senators on a personal call to not join House members on Epiphany to object to state electoral results, a source on the call tells CNN, when Congress formally counts the body votes and members of Congress can object. Other top Republicans including Senate Majority Whip John T...

As Joe Biden gets ready to enter White House, US warns India, sanctions Turkey

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  As Joe Biden gets ready to enter White House, US warns India, sanctions Turkey Days ahead of President-elect Joe Biden taking charge as the new President of the US, The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Turkey for buying the Russian-made S400 Triumf anti-missile system and has warned India and other countries on buying arms manufactured by Russia. A series of sanctions were announced by Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation, Christopher Ford, on Monday under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) against Turkey’s military procurement agency SSB and four senior Turkish officials. It is to be noted that Turkey is a NATO ally. We hope that other countries around the world will also take note that the United States will fully implement CAATSA Section 231 sanctions and that they should avoid further acquisitions continue reading

Don’t want to speak about that: Trump on attending Biden’s inauguration ceremony

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  Don’t want to speak about that: Trump on attending Biden’s inauguration ceremony Speaking on things that might arise if he doesn't concede by the time of Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump said, “I worry about the country having an illegitimate president. That’s what I worry about". “A president that lost and lost badly. This was not like a close election. You look at Georgia. We won Georgia big. We won the Pennsylvania big. We won the Wisconsin big. We won it big,” he added. On Friday, the US Supreme Court had rejected a bid by Texas attorney general to block the ballot of voters in battleground states that favored President-elect Joe Biden. The court’s move to dismiss the challenge that is the strongest indication yet that Trump has no chance of overturning the election leads to the court that even the justices whom he placed there haven't any interest in allowing his desperate legal bids to continue. As Joe Biden gets ready to enter White House, US warns India, sanctions...

Biden chooses Susan Rice as top domestic policy adviser

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  Biden chooses Susan Rice as top domestic policy adviser. Biden also chose former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to serve a second tenure as agriculture secretary, Obama White House aide Denis McDonough as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, US Representative Marcia Fudge to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Katherine Tai as US Trade Representative. The choice of Rice as Biden's top domestic policy adviser came as somewhat of a surprise given her extensive background in foreign policy. Besides her role as Obama's national security adviser, she earlier served as his ambassador to the United Nations. She was a contender earlier this year to be Biden's running mate. Who was national security adviser?

Biden’s Cabinet looks more like a team of buddies.

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  Biden’s Cabinet looks more like a team of buddies. President-elect Joe Biden has worked with the previous aide he wants to be secretary of state since their time at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee within the 1990s. His nominee for agriculture secretary endorsed his first presidential bid quite 30 years ago. And he knows his choice for Pentagon chief from the retired general’s time in Iraq, where Biden’s son Beau, a military lawyer, also served on the general’s staff. For all the talk that Biden is abiding by a sophisticated formula of ethnicity, gender, and knowledge as he builds his administration and he is perhaps the foremost important criteria for landing a cupboard post or a top White House job appear to be having a long-standing relationship with the president-elect himself. Biden chooses Susan Rice as top domestic policy adviser

U.S Supreme Court rejects Republican challenge to Biden's Pennsylvania win

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  U.S Supreme Court rejects Republican challenge to Biden's Pennsylvania win Pennsylvania was one among the pivotal states within the election, with Biden, a Democrat, defeating Trump after the Republican president won the state in 2016. State officials had already certified the election results. There were no noted dissents from any of the justices on the court, which features a 6-3 conservative majority including three Trump appointees. Trump had urged the Republican-led Senate to verify his most up-to-date nominee, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, before polling day so she could participate in any election-related cases.

Biden’s Cabinet looks more like a team of buddies

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  Biden’s Cabinet looks more like a team of buddies President-elect Joe Biden has worked with the previous aide he wants to be secretary of state since their time at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee within the 1990s. His nominee for agriculture secretary endorsed his first presidential bid quite 30 years ago. And he knows his choice for Pentagon chief from the retired general’s time in Iraq, where Biden’s son Beau, a military lawyer, also served on the general’s staff.

Biden chooses Susan Rice as top domestic policy adviser

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  Biden chooses Susan Rice as top domestic policy adviser US President-elect Joe Biden chose Susan Rice, who was national security adviser to former President Barack Obama, on Thursday to lead the White House's domestic policy council as part of a flurry of appointments to his developing administration. Biden also chose former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to serve a second tenure as agriculture secretary, Obama White House aide Denis McDonough as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, US Representative Marcia Fudge to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Katherine Tai as US Trade Representative.

Joe Biden says he won’t quickly remove phase-one tariffs on China

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  Joe Biden says he won’t quickly remove phase-one tariffs on China President-elect Joe Biden told the New York Times he’d leave the phase-one trade deal with China in place while he conducts a full review of the US’s policy toward China in consultation with key allies. Speaking to columnist Thomas Friedman, Biden said he wouldn’t immediately scupper the trade agreement that President Donald Trump reached with China earlier this year. “I’m not going to make any immediate moves, and the same applies to the tariffs,” Biden said, according to the report. “I’m not going to prejudice my options.”

Joe Biden Urges US Congress To Pass Covid Aid Package, Promises More Action

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  Joe Biden Urges US Congress To Pass Covid Aid Package, Promises More Action U.S. President-elect Joe Biden urged lawmakers on Tuesday to pass a coronavirus aid package that has been stalled in Congress for months and promised more action to reactivate the economy after he takes office next month. At its peak over the summer, expanded federal unemployment benefits funneled some $12 billion weekly into individual bank accounts, money that propped up spending, padded savings and fueled rehiring. But those benefits are expiring by the end of this year, prompting calls for a more extended safety net while a coronavirus vaccine is rolled out.