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Biden plans temporary halt of oil activity in Arctic refuge

JUNEAU, Alaska - President Joe Biden's administration announced plans Wednesday for a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leasing in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge after the Trump administra...

Jan 20, 2021

World hopes for renewed co-operation with US under Biden

MEXICO CITY - 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 co...

Jan 20, 2021

Biden inaugural: Abrupt pivot to civility in post-Trump era

Washington couldn't turn the page quickly enough from Donald Trump to President Joe Biden. Trump's voice faded from the capital he had animated and antagonized since 2017 as he flew to private life in...

Jan 20, 2021

Inauguration sows doubt among QAnon conspiracy theorists

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - For years, legions of QAnon conspiracy theory adherents encouraged one another to "trust the plan" as they waited for the day when President Donald Trump would orchestrate mass arr...

Jan 20, 2021

Senate confirms Biden 1st Cabinet pick as Democrats control

WASHINGTON - Three new senators were sworn into office Wednesday after President Joe Biden's inauguration, securing the majority for Democrats in the Senate and across a unified government to tackle t...

Jan 20, 2021

Immigrants cheered by possible citizenship path under Biden

HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Immigrants cheered President Joe Biden's plan to provide a path to U.S. citizenship for about 11 million people without legal status, mixing hope with guarded optimism Wednesday amid...

Jan 20, 2021

Biden to review Trump's changes to national monuments

SALT LAKE CITY - President Joe Biden said Wednesday he plans to review the Trump administration's downsizing of two sprawling national monuments in the American Southwest, including one on lands consi...

Jan 20, 2021

Biden puts U.S. back into fight to slow global warming

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden returned the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts Wednesday and immediately launched a series of climate-frien...

Jan 20, 2021

Italian police find stolen copy of Leonardo 'Salvator Mundi'

ROME - Italian police have recovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century "Salvator Mundi" painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church during the pandemic without ...

Jan 20, 2021

Comforting rituals show in media's depiction of inauguration

NEW YORK - After Air Force One took Donald Trump out of Washington, an unusual Inauguration Day quickly felt more traditional - even comforting - for people watching at home. Sure, security ringed the...

Jan 20, 2021