Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. It was the Senate version of a gold watch. As the Obama administration wound to a close in December 2016, Joe Biden’s old pals gathered around their water cooler —
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly changed its recommendations for coronavirus immunizations to give doctors the flexibility to handle “exceptional circumstances,” a spokeswoman said, even though the changes have not been studied in large clinical trials. In
The master tenant of a warehouse that had been converted into a ramshackle artists’ collective in Oakland, Calif., pleaded guilty to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter on Friday, four years after a fire tore through the building, killing 36 people, court records
Alice Hoagland, an inspirational figure for a gay rugby movement that her son, Mark Bingham, helped set in motion shortly before he perished in the 2001 terrorist attacks as one of the heroes of Flight 93, died on Dec 22 at her
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday telephoned the chief of the National Guard Bureau to express dismay after troops deployed to protect his inauguration were ordered a day earlier to rest in an unheated garage after being booted from the Capitol, administration
In his memoir, Mr. Avian wrote about what made his creative partnership with Mr. Bennett work. “I wasn’t cautious with Michael,” he wrote. “I knew him so well that I could tell him exactly what I thought. In effect I seemed to
new video loaded: Janet Yellen Is Unanimously Approved by Senate Committee transcript Back transcript Janet Yellen Is Unanimously Approved by Senate Committee On Friday, Janet Yellen’s nomination as Treasury secretary was approved unanimously by the Senate Finance Committee. It will head for
new video loaded: Biden Calls Coronavirus Aid an ‘Economic Imperative’ transcript Back transcript Biden Calls Coronavirus Aid an ‘Economic Imperative’ President Biden signed two executive orders Friday, directing more federal aid to Americans struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic and laying the
Two days after the riot at the Capitol, a man was making a such a ruckus aboard a plane on the tarmac at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that the crew turned the flight around in order to escort him off. It
Mira Furlan, an actress best known for her roles on the fantastical TV series “Babylon 5” and “Lost,” died at her home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. She was 65. The cause was complications of the West Nile virus, according to Chris
Lubomir Kavalek, a chess grandmaster who fled Czechoslovakia after the 1968 Soviet invasion and, after moving to the United States, became a three-time national champion, died on Monday at his home in Reston, Va. He was 77. His wife, Irena Kavalek, said