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Biden says world on cusp of some 'real breakthroughs' on cancer

Andrea Shalal, Reuters
Posted at Mar 04 09:42 AM

US President Joe Biden met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers at the White House on Wednesday to brainstorm ways to accelerate the fight against cancer, saying he believed the world was nearing some "real breakthroughs." Read more »

Trumps vaccinated against COVID-19 before leaving White House: advisor

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 02 10:11 AM

Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, were vaccinated against the coronavirus in January before leaving the White House, an advisor to the former president said on Monday. Read more »

White House working with Facebook and Twitter to tackle anti-vaxxers

Nandita Bose, Reuters
Posted at Feb 20 03:51 AM

WASHINGTON - The White House has been reaching out to social media companies including Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet Inc's Google about clamping down on COVID misinformation and getting their help to stop it from going viral, a senior administration official said. Read more »

Trump rages, Biden yawns

Sebastian Smith, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 18 01:33 PM

How Biden was going to deal with the specter of a vengeful Trump has been a question ever since his convincing victory in November. Typically, former presidents fade gracefully into the background, but Trump is different. Now Biden has given his answer. Read more »

NFL: Biden invites Super Bowl champs Buccaneers to White House

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 09 09:04 AM

Super Bowl champions the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and their iconic leader Tom Brady got an invitation Monday to the White House. Read more »

Trial for the ages: US Senate to judge Trump over Capitol riot

Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 08 02:54 AM

WASHINGTON - One year after his first impeachment, former president Donald Trump finds himself the subject of an unprecedented second trial beginning Tuesday in the Senate, whose members must determine whether he incited a deadly assault on the US Capitol. Read more »

Biden's White House will look into Trump's visitor logs and whether it can release them

Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose, Reuters
Posted at Feb 03 06:20 AM

WASHINGTON - The White House said on Tuesday it would look into whether it can make visitor logs from former President Donald Trump's administration public, a move that will be in line with the Biden administration's vow to release its own records. Read more »

Biden’s first 10 days: missing vaccines, lowered hopes and Trump’s ghost

South China Morning Post by POLITICO
Posted at Jan 31 08:11 AM

Although the new US President’s team arrived at the White House with a 200-page coronavirus response plan, it has instead met a mushrooming crisis. Among the issues the Biden administration must resolve is finding out what happened to 20 million vaccine doses that went missing. Read more »

Who was Jason Tengco before he was appointed new White House liaison?

ANCX Staff
Updated as of Jan 26 11:23 PM

“Although I was once ashamed of my identity, I’ve truly come full circle and derive incredible strength and pride in being Filipino,” he once wrote in an essay.  Read more »

Biden appoints Fil-Am as White House liaison for Office of Personnel Management

TJ Manotoc, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 26 05:15 PM

The Biden-Harris administration on Tuesday (Manila time) announced several political appointees to the US Office of Personnel Management. Read more »

Biden 'First Dogs' arrive at White House

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 26 05:52 AM

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden's dogs Champ and Major have moved into the White House, reviving a long-standing tradition of presidential pets that was broken under Donald Trump. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 22, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 22 11:36 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Biden White House pledges data, transparency, respect for free press

Reuters
Posted at Jan 21 10:56 AM

President Joe Biden's press secretary held her first news conference on Wednesday, 7 hours after Biden's inauguration, vowing to bring truth and transparency back to government. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 20, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 21 03:03 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Biden to hit reset on US fight against COVID-19

Susan Heavey and Gabriella Borter, Reuters
Posted at Jan 21 02:04 AM

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Wednesday will immediately reset the nation's response to the COVID-19 crisis when he heads to the Oval Office after being sworn in to lead a country reeling from its worst public health crisis in more than a century. Read more »

Empty streets, thousands of troops in Washington as Biden becomes US president

Jonathan Landay and David Lawder, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 21 01:28 AM

Joe Biden became the 46th US president on Wednesday in a barricaded city, guarded by more than 25,000 troops and emptied of the spectators who usually throng to the quadrennial ritual. Read more »

Trumps exit White House

Leah Millis, Reuters
Posted at Jan 20 09:56 PM

Trump andMelania Trump depart the White House to board Marine One ahead of the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden, in Washington, U.S. on Wednesday.  Read more »

Trump ends tumultuous term under cloud, faces uncertain future

Steve Holland and Jeff Mason, Reuters
Posted at Jan 20 02:56 PM

President Donald Trump leaves the presidency on Wednesday under a dark cloud of his own making, ending his single 4-year term stained by 2 impeachments, deep political divisions and his handling of a pandemic that has caused 400,000 US deaths. Read more »

Trump 'provoked' Capitol mob: Republican Senate leader McConnell

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 20 06:24 AM

WASHINGTON - The supporters of Donald Trump who attacked the US Capitol were "provoked" by the president and "fed lies," Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday. Read more »

In farewell video, Melania Trump says be passionate, but not violent

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 19 12:57 PM

WASHINGTON - First Lady Melania Trump released a farewell message Monday as she prepares to leave the White House, saying that "violence is never the answer," weeks after the president's supporters stormed the US Capitol. Read more »