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  • President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and vaccinations in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Politics

    Biden’s $3.5 trillion package is ‘too big to fail’ but also ‘too big to describe’

    By Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller, and others
  • President Joe BidenPolitics

    Biden defends his Afghanistan decision: ‘there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces’

    By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, and others
  • TOPSHOT – Afghan passengers sit as they wait to leave the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Biden to address nation on Afghanistan this afternoon

    By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, and others
  • Afghan people climb up on a plane and sit by the door as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    ‘The embarrassment of a superpower laid low’: Critics round on Biden after Taliban takeover

    By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, and others
  • U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Seventy percent of U.S. adults have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, a key milestone in the fight against the pandemic that the country hit nearly a month later than Biden had hoped.Health

    Biden administration issues new eviction ban for most of U.S.

    By Josh Boak, Lisa Mascaro, and others
  • Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, listens during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. President Joe Biden and his top advisers have derided the Trump administration’s playbook for distributing coronavirus vaccines, but so far have made only modest changes to the plan that’s meeting their target pace of more than one million shots a day. Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    With Memorial Day deadline looming, GOP counters with $1 trillion infrastructure proposal

    By Lisa Mascaro, Jonathan Lemire, and others
  • Motorists make their way past a sign announcing “Pfizer Today” available at the Cal State Los Angeles Covid-19 vaccine site in Los Angeles, California on May 3, 2021. – A citywide emergency alert was due to be sent to cell phone in Los Angeles on Monday reminding people to get their Covid-19 vaccine as numbers of people getting vaccinated have fallen over the past week. The city-run vaccination sites are due to offer more than 250,000 doses this week, more than ever offered during the pandemic. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    FDA expected to approve Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for adolescents next week

    By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, and others
  • U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with Isabel Guzman, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), right, before signing the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Act with Vice President Kamala Harris, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The Senate last week approved a two-month extension of a popular U.S. small-business relief program that still has about $79 billion left to distribute, giving companies until the end of May to apply for the forgivable loans. Photographer: Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    From broadband to bridges—Biden to unveil $2 trillion infrastructure plan on Wednesday

    By Lisa Mascaro, Josh Boak, and others
  • U.S. President Joe Biden looks at a card he pulled from his pocket and reads out loud the number of Americans who have died of Covid-19 to date, during an address to the nation in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 11, 2021. Biden is addressing a pandemic-weary nation to mark the day a year ago when the spread of coronavirus forced Americans into isolation, swiftly collapsing the economy and portending more than a half-million deaths. Photographer: Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Biden eyes July 4th as America’s ‘independence’ day from COVID

    By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 13: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (C) wears a protective mask while walking to the House Floor at the U.S. Capitol on January 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives is expected to vote to impeach President Donald Trump later today, after Vice President Mike Pence declined to use the 25th amendment to remove him from office after protestors breached the U.S. Capitol last week. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)Politics

    Majority of U.S. House members vote to impeach Trump a second time

    By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, and others
  • With the country barreling toward a likely recession ahead of November's election, Trump is eager to spur an economic revival, hoping to steady financial markets and restore some of the 16 million jobs already lost due to the pandemic.Leadership

    Trump rules out Ivanka and Jared as he prepares to announce members of new panel to open U.S. economy

    By Jonathan Lemire, Kevin Freking, and others
  • President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing about the coronavirus.Politics

    President Trump tells older Americans to stay home, all ages to limit gatherings to 10

    By The Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire, and others
  • President Trump Speaks At The National Prayer BreakfastPolitics

    Trump takes victory lap and unleashes fury at impeachment enemies

    By Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller, and others
  • Funeral Procession For Iran's General Qasem SoleimaniPolitics

    Congress Demands Answers on Soleimani Killing as Trump Ratchets Up Threats

    By Robert Burns, Jonathan Lemire, and others
  • Donald Trump, Jr hugs his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle,Politics

    Donald Trump Jr. on the Hustings: Energizing His Father’s Loyalists

    By Jonathan Lemire and The Associated Press