Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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A 13-year-old who befriended Joe Biden over his stutter is set to play a role in today's inauguration, CNN reports. Brayden Harrington, of New Hampshire, bonded with the incoming president over a shared experience with stammering. Watch as Joe Biden sheds a tear in this emotional farewell video before departing…
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Joe Biden is officially the 46th President of the United States. Following one of the most tumultuous transitions in the country's history, the former Vice President under Barack Obama was sworn in on Wednesday, January 20. You can watch Biden's first address as the President of the United States in…
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Kamala Harris has taken her Vice Presidential oath at today's Inauguration, sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor. Harris has made history by becoming the first woman, the first African American and the first Asian American to serve in the role of Vice President. Doug Emhoff, Harris' husband, held…
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Joe Biden has taken to Twitter to post his first tweet on Inauguration Day. Writing to his 24.5 million followers on the platform, he declared: "It's a new day in America". The tweet comes after Donald Trump left the White House as President for the very last time earlier today.…
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Donald Trump has vowed that he will be "back in some form" after he left the White House for the final time as President of the United States. Delivering his final speech as President at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland after flying there with his wife, First Lady Melania Trump,…
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Donald Trump is set to become the first US president in the nuclear age to not hand over the nuclear codes to his successor. According to NBC News, Trump plans to be in Florida when Democrat and former Veep Joe Biden is sworn in at the Capitol Building in Washington,…
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Donald Trump has left the White House as President for the very last time, bringing to an end a tumultuous, chaotic and often disastrous four years as President of the United States. Trump, who became the only President in history to be impeached twice in the wake of the Capitol…
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Nancy Pelosi has said that Donald Trump was a "stain on our country" and "unworthy to be president" in a new interview, which was released on his last full day in office. The House Speaker spoke with MSNBC's Joy Reid, who reiterated reports that Trump will not be greeting the…
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Mike Pence has shared a final farewell to the public on his last day as Vice President - and people on social media were quick to notice his message didn't contain one mention of Donald Trump. In a message posted to the official Twitter account of the Vice President, which…
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Joe Biden has released a statement confirming everything that he will do on his first day in office. As per the Mirror, a statement from Biden's office ahead of his swearing-in today reads: "Today, hours after taking the oath of office, President-elect Biden will take a historic number of actions…
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An emotional Joe Biden has been seen shedding a tear after leaving his home to be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. According to The Independent, Biden became emotional while on-camera during a video address to the public in his home state of Delaware before departing…
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Joe Biden has memorialized the more than 400,000 Americans who have thus far died from Covid-19 during a moving vigil held in Washington DC. Late on Tuesday afternoon, gospel singer Yolanda Adams performed Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' as 400 lanterns were lit in memory of those Americans who had lost their…
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Donald Trump has issued a farewell speech yesterday (January 19) as his time as president comes to a close. The 45th president of the United States, who is the only president in history to have been impeached twice, issued a prerecorded farewell speech in which he stated that his administration…
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Joe Biden has nominated Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to serve as his assistant secretary of health in the Department of Health and Human Services, POLITICO reports. As such, she is set to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the US Senate. A qualified pediatrician,…
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A woman accused of stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop during the US Capitol riot earlier this month was arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday, (January 18), according to a Justice Department official, the Los Angeles Times reports. As per the publication, the former romantic partner of Riley June Williams, 22,…
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Melania Trump has released a farewell message as she prepares to leave the White House in time for Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday, January 20. As part of the six-minute-long pre-recorded speech, which was posted to her official Twitter account, Mrs. Trump praised those in the military and law enforcement…
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A teenager who outed their own mom for participating in violence during the Capitol riots in Washington D.C. earlier this month has said that she doesn't regret doing it. On Wednesday, January 6, a number of Trump-supporting protestors stormed the Capitol building and interrupted the affirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's…
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A Trump-supporting nurse has been fired from her job after it was discovered that she participated in the Capitol riots. On Wednesday, January 6, a number of Trump-supporting protestors stormed the Capitol building and interrupted the affirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 US Presidential Election. The riot…
