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President Joe Biden turns from the podium after speaking to a joint session of Congress Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
More perilous phase ahead for Biden after his 1st 100 days

By Jonathan Lemire, Josh Boak And Zeke Miller May. 01, 2021 11:50 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 11, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden holds up a card with his daily schedule and the daily deaths from COVID-19 as he speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
More action, less talk, distinguish Biden's 100-day sprint

By Jonathan Lemire And Calvin Woodward Apr. 25, 2021 07:52 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden delivers remarks on immigration, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
More action, less talk, distinguish Biden's 100-day sprint

By Jonathan Lemire And Calvin Woodward Apr. 25, 2021 07:48 AM EDT

President Joe Biden speaks with Mary Anna Ackley, Owner of Little Wild Things Farm, left, and Michael Siegel, Co-owner of W.S. Jenks & Son, right, during a visit at W.S. Jenks & Son hardware store, a small business that received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead

By Jonathan Lemire And Jill Colvin Mar. 09, 2021 04:43 PM EST

Today in History

By The Associated Press Feb. 22, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Monday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2021. There are 312 days left in the year. Today’s...

FILE - In this May 19, 2013, file photo, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough returns to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., after a trip with President Barack Obama. President-elect Joe Biden is nominating former President Barack Obama's White House chief of staff Denis McDonough as secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The sprawling agency has presented organizational challenges for both parties over the years. Biden is continuing to stockpile his administration with prominent alumni of the Obama administration (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Obama reunion? Biden fills Cabinet with former WH leaders

By Aamer Madhani Dec. 11, 2020 01:08 AM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a Biden for President Black economic summit at Camp North End in Charlotte, N.C. The final stretch of a presidential campaign is typically a nonstop mix of travel, caffeine and adrenaline. But as the worst pandemic in a century bears down on the United States, Joe Biden is taking a lower key approach. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Biden's low-key campaign style worries some Democrats

By Will Weissert, Alexandra Jaffe And Alan Fram Sep. 25, 2020 02:53 AM EDT

FILE- In this June 3, 2020 file photo, workmen walk by the shuttered La Tropicana Cafe in Tampa, Fla. The cafe, which first acted as a hub for immigrants when it opened in 1963 and has since been a stop for politicians campaigning in the area, has joined the long list of businesses lost to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, FILE)
Many landmark restaurants, bars won't reopen after virus

By Curt Anderson Aug. 10, 2020 10:36 AM EDT

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden gestures while referencing President Donald Trump at a campaign event at the William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 28, 2020.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
2020 Watch: And the Democratic veepstakes winner is?

By Steve Peoples Aug. 03, 2020 05:34 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 26, 2020, file photo Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, center, speaks as Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, left, listen during a news conference with members of the Coronavirus task force at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington. Fauci has warned that the United States could soon see 100,000 infections per day. “We haven’t even begun to see the end of it yet,” Fauci said during a talk hosted by Stanford University’s School of Medicine. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Sinclair pulls show where Fauci conspiracy theory is aired

By David Bauder Jul. 25, 2020 05:22 PM EDT

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2020, in Washington. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci listens at left. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Analysis: Trump flouts the experts, even in own government

By Aamer Madhani And Julie Pace May. 19, 2020 05:40 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 10, 2020, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill, speaks to members of the press at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Biden has no foreseeable plans to resume in-person campaigning amid a pandemic that is testing whether a national presidential election can be won by a candidate communicating almost entirely from home. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Basement-bound Biden campaign worries some Democrats

By Bill Barrow And Steve Peoples May. 13, 2020 12:25 AM EDT

In this image from video provided by the Biden for President campaign, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual press briefing Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (Biden for President via AP)
Biden plans to stay home, testing limits of virtual campaign

By Bill Barrow And Steve Peoples May. 12, 2020 06:32 PM EDT

This March 31, 2020 photo photo provided by Herb Hoeptner shows him as he waits his turn for surgery while the kidney of his wife, Diane, is removed for transplant into him at the UCSF hospital in San Francisco. Organ transplants have plummeted as COVID-19 swept through communities. But the team led by Dr. Chris Freise, interim transplant director at the University of California, San Francisco, allowed living kidney transplants for people like Hoeptner, who was on the brink of needing dialysis. "When you have kidneys that have nothing left, you either go on dialysis or you die. That was much more of a concern to me than coronavirus," said Hoeptner. (Courtesy Herb Hoeptner via AP)
Organ transplants dive amid virus crisis, start to inch back

By Lauran Neergaard May. 11, 2020 06:49 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 7, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump speaks during a White House National Day of Prayer Service in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The coronavirus pandemic is complicating what has been a May reelection campaign launch for recent presidents. Trump has told reporters recently he would travel soon to Ohio, a battleground state. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Pandemic creates electoral uncertainty for Trump, Democrats

By Steve Peoples And Thomas Beaumont May. 11, 2020 05:07 AM EDT