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US election 2020
On 3 Nov, America chooses its president for the next 4 years
Biden signs executive orders reversing Trump decisions on COVID, climate change
- Fresh off his inauguration Wednesday, President Biden began his term with executive orders on measures ranging from curbing the coronavirus pandemic to addressing racial inequality, many of which roll back measures enacted by former President Donald Trump’s administration.
- The Independent
Biden set to ban new oil and gas leases on federal lands after Trump sell-off
Move follows a 60-day suspension of new drilling permits for US lands and waters announced last week
- The Independent
Biden ‘doesn’t think’ Senate will convict Trump, but says second impeachment ‘has to happen’
Former president’s unprecedented second Senate trial set to start on week of 8 February
- The Independent
Biden news: Trump impeachment article delivered, as Brazil Covid variant reaches US
Follow for all the latest from the White House and beyond in US politics
- The Independent
Congressman urges Biden to fire USPS board of governors for ‘silence and complicity’ with Trump ‘arson’
Bill Pascrell says Postal Service officials ‘sat silent’ during former administration’s attacks on mail-in voting
- The Independent
Biden administration tells Russia to free Navalny and protesters in stark departure from Trump era
Trump in September refused to say whether he believed the Kremlin was behind poisoning of opposition figure
- The Independent
Biden overturns Trump’s ban on transgender service members in US military
President has ordered officials to correct records of service members affected by ban
- The Independent
How former Trump voters in the Deep South are coping with Biden’s presidency so far
I know Trump voters and the way they think intimately, because they are my relatives
- The Independent
Trump spent his first weekend in office lying about crowd sizes. Biden used it to quietly enact major reforms
On this day four years ago, the former president was engaged in a burgeoning feud with the media about the size of his inauguration crowd
- Associated Press
Mine OK'd in Trump's last days may boost Biden energy plan
One of the keys to President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion clean energy plan could be a mineral that lies in a salt flat above a prehistoric volcano just south of the Oregon-Nevada line. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued a record of decision on Trump’s final Friday in office for an open-pit lithium mine at Thacker Pass, which is roughly 53 miles (85 kilometers) north of Winnemucca, Nevada.
- The Independent
Bidens left stuck outside White House on Inauguration Day after ‘petty’ final Trump act
‘There was a protocol breach when the front doors were not held open’