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Tamara Keith

The White House is expanding a pandemic-era program allowing the administration to quickly expel people from Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti who illegally cross into the country from Mexico.
The new government website includes a locator tool for more than 2,000 sites to access “test to treat” services for COVID. It’s meant to be a one-stop shop for Americans’ pandemic needs.
Millions of people in the U.S. have lost someone they love to COVID-19, and advocates hope to have those losses marked each year on the first Monday in March.
More than half of U.S. households have ordered at-home COVID-19 tests to be shipped to their homes. Now they can get more.
If you think you might have COVID, you’ll be able to get tested at a pharmacy and treated with antiviral drugs right away, under the next phase of the pandemic plan.
There are fresh logistical challenges, warns the White House’s COVID czar in an exclusive interview with NPR. For example, young children will be getting a smaller dose delivered via smaller needles.
With the school year underway and cooler months approaching, President Biden is set to detail a new plan to rein in the delta-driven spread of the coronavirus.
President Biden wanted 70% of adults to get their first COVID-19 shot by July Fourth. America won’t quite reach that milestone. But the White House isn’t letting that get in the way of a good party.
President Biden set a goal of 70% of U.S. adults fully vaccinated by July 4. The White House is acknowledging Tuesday that it will likely come up short of that.
President Biden will hold a press conference on his own after the closed-door meeting with the Russian president.
When it comes to persuading people to get a COVID-19 vaccine, health care professionals are influential. But in some rural communities, hospital staff themselves are hanging back.
President Biden knows better than almost anyone how hard it is to get gun bills passed. But after being at the forefront on previous efforts, he seems to be pushing it down his agenda as president.
President Trump was impeached for inciting his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol. The violence and its aftermath will be an enduring symbol of his four years in the White House.
With the country reeling from the pandemic, racial injustice, and the Capitol riot, President-elect Joe Biden must transcend the “typical gauzy appeals to national unity” of past inaugural addresses.
Three sources in Trump’s orbit tell NPR he is considering running for a second term as president in 2024. Trump himself alluded to it at a private party this week.
President Trump has been tweeting, but his schedule has been empty since the election, and he hasn’t spoken publicly since Thursday. He will visit Arlington National Cemetery to mark Veterans Day.
Trump spoke after the AP called Texas, Florida, Ohio and Iowa for him. Tight races, strong turnout and record amounts of mail-in voting left millions of legitimate votes still to be counted.
Marc Short, the top aide to Vice President Pence, is the latest White House official to get the coronavirus. Pence, who tested negative, plans to continue his breakneck campaign travel schedule.