WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats on a pivotal House panel have proposed an additional $1,400 in direct payments to individuals, bolstered unemployment benefits and more generous tax breaks for families with children and for lower earners as Congress began piecing together a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package on Monday.The plan is expected to closely follow President Joe Biden's proposed package to address the tolls of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed over 460,000 Americans, and the nation's still staggering economy, which has lost 10 million jobs since the crisis began last year.

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‘We will not wait for the next mass shooting’: Biden calls for tougher gun laws on Parkland anniversary

WASHINGTON - Sunday marks three years since 17 people were killed and another 17 wounded when a gunman opened fire at a school in Parkland, Fla. on Valentine's Day 2018.President Joe Biden used the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws with "commonsense" reforms.

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On Parkland anniversary, Biden calls for tougher gun laws

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Sorrow reverberated across the country Sunday as Americans, including President Joe Biden, joined a Florida community in remembering the 17 lives lost three years ago in the Parkland school shooting massacre.

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Biden order reestablishes faith-focused White House office

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden signed an executive order Sunday relaunching a White House office aimed at fostering cooperation between the federal government and faith-based and secular community organizations.

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'Obamacare' sign-ups reopen as Democrats push for more aid

WASHINGTON – HealthCare.gov’s market for subsidized health plans reopens Monday for a special three-month sign-up window as the Democratic-led Congress pushes a boost in financial help that could cut premiums by double digits.

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Biden White House seeks to turn page on Trump

WASHINGTON – The end of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial opens a new chapter for his successor in the White House.

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Biden seeks to close Guantanamo Bay prison following 'robust' review

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will seek to close the prison on the U.S.

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Months after Biden win, Arizona officials still face threats

PHOENIX – For months, the four elected Republicans and one Democrat on the board overseeing Arizona's most populous county have been facing threats and harassment for backing election results that saw Democrat Joe Biden win in the state.

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Biden will try to close Guantanamo after 'robust' review

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will seek to close the prison on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay following a review process, resuming a project begun under the Obama administration, the White House said Friday.

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Biden: Governors and mayors need $350 billion to fight COVID

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden met with a bipartisan group of governors and mayors at the White House on Friday as part of his push to give financial relief from the coronavirus pandemic to state and local governments — a clear source of division with Republican lawmakers who view the spending as wasteful.

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Biden views Valentine's Day decorations on WH lawn

WASHINGTON – First lady Jill Biden had installed before dawn Friday special Valentine’s Day artwork on the north lawn of the White House: giant pink, white and red hearts that resemble the popular candy.

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Biden to press for $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan with governors, mayors

Joe Biden will meet with a bipartisan group of mayors and governors on Friday as he continues to push for approval of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan to bolster economic growth and help millions of unemployed workers.Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will also receive an economic briefing from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, shortly after she takes part in the first meeting of the Group of Seven rich economies since the new US administration took office.Biden's proposed spending package, coming on top of $4 trillion enacted by his predecessor Donald Trump, will have important consequences for the global economy which is slowly recovering - but very unevenly - after last year suffering its worst downturn since the Great

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Biden wants to quadruple refugee admissions set by Trump

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden wants to raise refugee admissions to 62,500 for the current budget year, overriding former President Donald Trump’s record-low limit of 15,000, a U.S. official and others said Thursday.

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Biden says federal government has purchased enough COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the federal government has purchased an additional 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines and said by the summer, nearly every American will be able to get vaccinated. "We have now purchased enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all Americans, and now we’re working to get those vaccines into the arms of millions of people," Biden said. Biden added that in the first three weeks that he has been in office, his administration increased the supply of weekly vaccine shipments to states by almost 30%. "When I became president three weeks ago, America had no plan to vaccinate most of the country," Biden said.

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Biden tours Maryland lab that developed COVID-19 vaccine

BETHESDA, Md. – President Joe Biden visited some of the nation's leading scientists on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 on Thursday, as his administration looks to boost supplies of vaccines to end the pandemic.

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Biden decree ends 'emergency' that Trump used to build wall

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden has officially ended the “national emergency” that President Donald Trump declared in order to take money from the Pentagon to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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CBO expects $2.3 trillion deficit before Biden relief plan.

BALTIMORE – The Congressional Budget Office says the federal government is on track for a $2.3 trillion deficit this year, down roughly $900 billion from last year when the coronavirus pandemic led Congress to provide historic amounts of financial aid.

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Biden hopes infrastructure can bridge partisan divide

President Joe Biden is hoping that launching an effort to build roads and bridges can help to unite Democrats and Republicans in a time of sharp partisan divisions.

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Nancy Pelosi aims to finish Covid-19 relief by month's end

Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that she expects lawmakers to complete legislation based on President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill by the end of February.Also Read | Inside the Mindtree makeover strategyAs House committees worked to cobble the sweeping bill into place, Pelosi predicted the legislation would become law before enhanced unemployment benefits expire in mid-March and said an address by Biden to a joint session of Congress would come after the measure is done.Pelosi said the House would approve and forward to the Senate a Covid-19 bill that includes a gradual increase in the minimum wage to $15 per hour.

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What we know about the $1,400 direct payments Democrats hope to send to Americans

WASHINGTON – Republicans are attacking the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package as too costly, economically damaging and overtly partisan, an all-angles attempt to derail new President Joe Biden’s top priority as it starts moving through a Congress his party controls only narrowly.

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Asian shares mostly gain after Biden speaks with China's Xi

Major Asian stock indexes were mostly higher on Thursday after President Joe Biden held his first conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since taking office.

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Biden in call with China's Xi raises human rights, trade

Joe Biden on Wednesday held his first call as president with Xi Jinping, pressing the Chinese leader about trade and Beijing's crackdown on democracy activists in Hong Kong as well as other human rights concerns.

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Biden orders sanctions to freeze US assets from Myanmar military leaders who staged coup

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered new sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar, taking action after the military this month staged a coup in the Southeast Asian country and arrested de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politicians.Biden said he was issuing an executive order that will prevent Myanmar's generals from accessing $1 billion in assets in the United States. Biden added that more measures are to come."The military must relinquish power it seized and demonstrate respect for the will of the people of Burma," Biden said.Biden said the new sanctions will allow his administration to freeze U.S.

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Did someone say impeachment? Biden avoids wading into debate

WASHINGTON – The searing images once again claimed center stage: a mob storming the U.S. Capitol, Trump flags held aloft as violent rioters fought with police and targeted lawmakers.

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Biden orders sanctions against Myanmar after military coup

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered new sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar, taking action after the military this month staged a coup in the Southeast Asian country and arrested de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politicians.

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Mint Lite | Japan Covid vaccination, NRI’s political attitude, Thai royal & more

Democrats push for school fundingHouse Democrats muscled past Republicans on portions of President Joe Biden’s pandemic plan, including a proposed $130 billion in additional relief to help the nation’s schools reopen and a gradual increase of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, reports AP. Democrats on the Education and Labor Committee say schools won’t be able to reopen safely until they get an infusion of federal funding to repair building ventilation systems, buy protective equipment and take other steps recommended by federal health officials.

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Biden to visit a Pentagon hoping to shift from Trump turmoil

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is making his first visit to the Pentagon as commander in chief, taking stock of a military as it pivots from the turmoil of the Trump years and focuses to an unusual degree on domestic and internal issues.

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Senate sets confirmation hearing date for Merrick Garland, Biden's pick for attorney general

Judge Merrick Garland nominated by US President Joe Biden to be attorney general delivers remarks at The Queen theater January 7, 2021 in Wilmington, Delaware. - Biden nominated Judge Merrick Garland to be attorney general, Lisa Monaco to be deputy a WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general.Garland’s confirmation hearing will begin on Feb.

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Dem Sen. Manchin asks Biden to reverse Keystone XL rejection

WASHINGTON – In one of his first acts as new chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden to reconsider his executive order revoking a presidential permit for the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline, siding with Republican critics who say Biden's action will cost thousands of high-paying jobs.

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Biden revives weekly presidential address with personal phone calls

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden brought a historical tradition back to the White House: weekly presidential addresses, with a new twist.The White House on Saturday released a two-and-a-half minute video of Biden’s phone call with Michele Voelkert.Biden gave a pep talk to the California woman who was laid off because of the COVID-19 pandemic during the conversation, which the White House said is part of an effort to help the president engage more consistently with regular Americans.In the video, Voelkert said it was the first time she had been laid off in her life. She found solace in connecting with others on Facebook who were going through the same ordeal.

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Coronavirus: Biden says decision to hold 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games ‘must be based on science’

Any decision about holding the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, postponed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, must be based on science, U.S. President Joe Biden told a radio show.

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82 advocacy groups call on Biden to end federal executions

WASHINGTON – Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President Donald Trump and to commute the sentences of inmates on federal death row.

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Dems propose $1,400 payments as part of Biden virus relief

WASHINGTON – House Democrats proposed an additional $1,400 in direct payments to individuals as Congress began piecing together a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that tracks President Joe Biden's plan for battling the pandemic and reviving a still staggering economy.

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Senate confirms Biden pick Denis McDonough as VA secretary

FILE - President-elect Joe Biden (R) and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (L) look on as former Obama White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough delivers remarks after being introduced as U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Departm (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)WASHINGTON - The Senate has overwhelmingly voted to confirm President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee the Department of Veterans Affairs.The Senate confirmed Denis McDonough as VA secretary by a vote of 87-7 on Monday.

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President Joe Biden chats with troops overseas watching the Super Bowl

WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Joe Biden spoke with troops in Afghanistan and on a US Navy supercarrier on Super Bowl Sunday.Biden called into watch parties in Kabul and on the USS Nimitz.Biden tweeted, "Every year service members around the world gather to watch the Super Bowl — and tonight, I called into watch parties in Kabul and on the USS Nimitz to thank them for their service.

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President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden Thank Health Care Workers Ahead of Super Bowl LV

Joe Biden and his wife, first lady Dr. Jill Biden, took a moment to send a special message before Super Bowl LV.

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Yellen: Biden's plan could restore full employment by 2022

WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday the country was still in a “deep hole” with millions of lost jobs but that President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion relief plan could generate enough growth to restore full employment by next year.

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Biden: China should expect `extreme competition' from US

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden says China is in for “extreme competition” from the U.S. under his administration, but that the new relationship he wants to forge need not be one of conflict.

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Biden dogs to make appearance during Puppy Bowl

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s dogs will make an appearance during the Puppy Bowl this weekend.

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Big challenge: Biden is pressed to end federal death penalty

CHICAGO – Joe Biden, the first sitting U.S. president to openly oppose the death penalty, has discussed the possibility of instructing the Department of Justice to stop scheduling new executions, officials have told The Associated Press.

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Biden says $15 minimum wage likely won't 'survive' in COVID relief package, looks to stand-alone bill

Left photo by Getty Images President Biden conceded that his push to fold a $15 minimum wage into a broader COVID-19 relief package likely won't "survive.""My guess is it will not be in it," Biden told CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell in a clip of an interview that aired Friday.

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Calls mount for U.S. to take advantage of rapid coronavirus tests to fight pandemic

COVID-19 outbreak at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, school officials conducted rapid screening on more than 1,000 students in a week, including many who didn’t have symptoms.Although such asymptomatic screening isn’t approved by regulators and the 15-minute tests aren’t as sensitive as the genetic one that can take days to yield results, the testing director at the historically Black college credits the approach with quickly containing the infections and allowing the campus to remain open.“Within the span of a week, we had crushed the spread. If we had had to stick with the PCR test, we would have been dead in the water,” said Dr.

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Biden gives Calif. woman pep talk after job loss in weekly address revival

DELAWARE - President Joe Biden gave a pep talk to a California woman who was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic, during a conversation the White House said is part of an effort to help him engage more consistently with regular Americans. The White House on Saturday released a two-and-a-half-minute video of Biden's long-distance telephone conversation with Michele Voelkert, identifying her only as Michele. After losing her job at a startup clothing company in July, she wrote Biden a letter.

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Biden gives Calif. woman pep talk in weekly address revival

WILMINGTON, Del. – President Joe Biden gave a pep talk to a California woman who was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic, during a conversation the White House said is part of an effort to help him engage more consistently with regular Americans.

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Go big or go bipartisan: Biden’s push for a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill

Joe Biden’s push for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill is forcing an internal reckoning that pits his instincts to work toward a bipartisan deal against the demands of an urgent crisis and his desire to deliver for those who helped elect him.His bipartisan bona fides have been a defining feature of his political career, first as a Senate deal-maker, later as he led legislative negotiations for the Obama administration when vice-president and finally during his successful 2020 campaign.But the scope of the multiple crises confronting the nation now, along with the lessons Democrats learned from four years of Republican obstructionism during Barack Obama presidency, seem to be pushing Biden toward quick action on the coronavirus aid bill,

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Biden's dilemma in virus aid fight: Go big or go bipartisan

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s push for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill is forcing an internal reckoning that pits his instincts to work toward a bipartisan deal against the demands of an urgent crisis and his desire to deliver for those who helped elect him.

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Joe Biden vows to provide employment, coronavirus vaccinations

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Biden says 'no need' for Trump to continue receiving classified intelligence briefings

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Friday that Donald Trump should not be allowed to receive classified intelligence briefings, a courtesy that historically has been granted to outgoing presidents.Asked in an interview with CBS News what he feared if Trump continued to receive the briefings, Biden said he did not want to "speculate out loud" but made clear he did not want Trump to continue getting them."I just think that there is no need for him to have the intelligence briefings," Biden said.

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Biden says 'no need' for Trump to get intel briefs

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden said Friday that Donald Trump should not be allowed to receive classified intelligence briefings, a courtesy that historically has been granted to outgoing presidents.

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