The Biden administration is taking quick steps to keep the United States in the World Health Organization, part of his ambition to launch a full-throttle effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic

President Joe Biden has revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote “patriotic education” in schools but that historians rejected as political propaganda

President Joe Biden’s inauguration represents a new high point for Democrats, who have assumed control of Congress and expelled Donald Trump from the White House

European Union leaders will hold a video summit amid worry that the new coronavirus variants could result in another surge of deaths across the 27-nation bloc and push hospitals to the verge of collapse

The Biden and Trump administrations swapped out senior leadership of the federal government in a ritualized end to a historically rough presidential election

Authorities say it will take at least 15 more days to get through a massive amount of debris and reach miners already trapped for 11 days after an explosion in a gold mine in eastern China

David Halls isn’t a doctor, nurse or ambulance driver, but he wanted to contribute in the fight against COVID-19

Chancellor Angela Merkel says there are promising signs that coronavirus infections are declining in Germany and that fewer people require intensive care

A fire has broken out at a building under construction at Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, possibly affecting its future expansion of COVID-19 vaccine production

President Joe Biden is putting forth a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that they be worn for travel

President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, is pledging to carry out the administration’s ambitious agenda to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure

A single winning ticket for the $730 million Powerball jackpot has been sold in Maryland

Dr. Anthony Fauci says U.S. President Joe Biden will order the United States to support projects to deploy COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics to people in need around the world

China has expressed hope the Biden administration will improve prospects for people of both countries and give a boost to relations after an especially rocky patch, while getting in a few final digs at former Trump officials

World leaders welcomed into their ranks the new U.S. President Joe Biden, noting their most pressing problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, require multilateral cooperation, an approach his predecessor Donald Trump ridiculed

A gentle hero to many in Romania, Valeriu Nicolae says that, at heart, he is more like former NBA star Michael Jordan — highly competitive and eager to improve in what he does best

The COVID-19 vaccines available so far require two shots, and health officials say the doses should be the same kind

Joe Biden has taken the helm as the 46th president of the United States, summoning American resilience and unity to confront a historic confluence of crises

Piles of plush carpets line the floors of a shopping center in northern Iraq hosting traders from neighboring Iran

Sri Lanka has reopened to foreign tourists after a nearly 10-month pandemic closure that cut deeply into the Indian Ocean island nation’s lucrative travel industry

Three new Democratic senators have been sworn into office, giving Democrats the majority in the Senate

President Joe Biden delivered his inaugural speech on the very spot where an insurrectionist mob sought to overturn his election only two weeks prior

It's President Joe Biden's moment, and Washington is pivoting to life after Donald Trump

Sri Lanka is welcoming tourists again after keeping the doors closed to visitors for nearly 10 months due to the coronavirus pandemic

With chants of “Long live Kamala Harris,” fireworks and prayers, residents of a tiny Indian village celebrated her inauguration as U.S. vice president

President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day announcements on immigration are far-reaching

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden began dismantling Donald Trump's legacy by signing a series of executive actions that reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic

President Joe Biden has given the Oval Office a slight makeover

Joe Biden has taken the helm as the 46th president of the United States, summoning American resilience and unity to confront a historic confluence of crises

Fireworks lit up the sky behind the Washington Monument to mark the end of Inauguration Day for President Joe Biden

Vice President Kamala Harris has broken the barrier that has kept men at the top of American power for more than two centuries

President Joe Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki has held her first press briefing, and it was a sedate affair — even boring at times

Normally quiet streets around state capitols have looked more like battlegrounds recently amid protests

Immigrants are cheering President Joe Biden’s plan to provide a path to U.S. citizenship for about 11 million people without legal status

After taking the oath of office, President Joe Biden issued a strong repudiation of white supremacy and domestic terrorism seen on the rise under Donald Trump

President Joe Biden's inauguration has sown a mixture of anger, confusion and disappointment among believers in the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory

The Senate has confirmed Avril Haines as director of national intelligence, giving President Joe Biden the first member of his Cabinet

When then-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham admitted in 2005 to accepting $2.4 million in illegal gifts from defense contractors in exchange for government contracts and other favors, it was considered the largest bribery scandal in congressional history

A Mexican newspaper has published details of new testimony by a  cooperating witness that directly implicates the army in the disappearance of 43 college students in a 2014 incident that continues to haunt Mexico

The inauguration of Joe Biden in the United States showed how important continuity can be in American life, even these days

Donald Trump’s final batch of more than 140 pardons and sentence commutations benefited an ignominious list of defendants whose swindles, frauds and public corruption made them unlikely candidates for executive clemency

Scientists are reporting troubling signs that some recent mutations of the coronavirus may modestly curb the effectiveness of two current vaccines

The incoming director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is arriving at an agency that has been relegated to the sidelines during the coronavirus pandemic

His presidency over, Donald Trump has bid farewell to Washington, but he's also hinted at a comeback

Donald Trump released current and former members of his administration from the terms of their ethics pledge

President Joe Biden says truth and democracy are under attack in America and he's pledging to usher the post-truth era out of U.S. politics

Two large studies give a much sharper picture of which inherited mutations raise the risk of breast cancer for women without a family history of the disease

The push to inoculate Americans against the coronavirus is hitting a roadblock: A number of states are reporting they are running out of vaccine

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn says former Republican President George W

Former President Donald Trump's hand-picked chief of U.S. international broadcasting has quit amid a burgeoning staff revolt and growing calls for his resignation