Joe Biden

Biden’s declaration: America’s democracy ‘is rising anew’

Americans stand in cold hoping to see procession

11:44 pm January 20, 2021

Washington: More than a hundred people stood in the cold waiting to get through a security checkpoint to reach Pennsylvania Avenue, where they hoped to catch a glimpse of the presidential procession. People watched the inauguration ceremony on their phones Wednesday, cheering as Vice President Kamala Harris, then President Joe Biden took the oath. “I feel so hopeful, […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Donald Trump lands in Florida, skips Joe Biden’s swearing-in

11:38 pm January 20, 2021

Tallahassee : President Donald Trump has arrived in Florida after leaving the White House for the final time as president. Trump said farewell to Washington early Wednesday, leaving before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Trump’s plane flew low along the coast as Biden’s inauguration played on TV on Fox News Channel. Trump’s family was on the plane with him. He spent some of the flight […]

Biden to lay out his foreign policy at G-7, Munich summit

Facing crush of crises, Biden will take helm as president

2:47 pm January 20, 2021

Washington: Joe Biden swears the oath of office at noon Wednesday to become the 46th president of the United States, taking the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors. The very ceremony in which presidential power is transferred, a hallowed American democratic […]

DC on lockdown and on edge before Biden’s inauguration

2:36 pm January 20, 2021

Washington: The inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden will take place in a Washington on edge, after the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol unleashed a wave of fear and unmatched security concerns. And law enforcement officials are contending not only with the potential for outside threats but also with rising concerns about an insider attack […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Biden picks transgender woman as assistant health secretary

8:47 pm January 19, 2021

Washington: President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the US Senate. A pediatrician and former Pennsylvania physician general, Levine was appointed to her current post by Democratic Gov Tom Wolf in 2017, making her one of the few […]