Mairead McArdle

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf resigned on Monday, making him the third Cabinet-level official to quit the Trump administration since the violence at the Capitol last week.

“We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high,” Cuomo wrote in a tweet Monday morning.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned from the Trump administration Thursday night, a day after pro-Trump protesters descended on the Capitol, breaking through security barriers and forcing lawmakers to evacuate the Senate floor.

House members voted to reelect Pelosi in a 216-208 party line vote on Sunday, the first day of the 117th Congress.

The 87-year-old talk-show host, who has had a number of health scares in recent years, is currently in isolation.

President Trump on Wednesday issued his second wave of pardons in two days, including clemency for his longtime friend Roger Stone, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner.

Among Paul’s instances of waste were several health studies, including more than $36 million spent on studying why stress makes hair turn gray.

President Trump on Tuesday announced a wave of 20 pardons and commutations, including two for high-profile individuals convicted during the Mueller investigation.

North Carolina congressman-elect Madison Cawthorn says he will contest the presidential-election results when Congress meets to count the electoral votes.

Dr. Deborah Birx announced that she will retire shortly, citing the criticism she received for traveling to visit her relatives.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will fill Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s Senate seat, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday.

Congress on Sunday reached a deal on a nearly $900 billion coronavirus relief package after months of stalled negotiations between Democrats and Republicans.

‘It’s not ethically right to deny those individuals’ in the U.S. illegally, Jerome Adams said.

Biden said last week that he is ‘confident’ his son Hunter did nothing wrong.

The Netherlands and Belgium have already announced restrictions as Germany, Austria, and France plan similar measures.

Between 2011 and 2015, a suspected Chinese intelligence operative developed close relationships with Swalwell and a number of other American politicians.

About 184,000 vials of the vaccine were shipped in freight trucks and will be delivered to every state.

“Our absolute obligation to the American people was to make sure we did a thorough scientific review.

The four stabbing victims were transported to the hospital and in critical condition, the mayor’s office said.

The Democratic governor called on faith leaders to ‘lead the way and set an example.

​‘I know there were people who did congregate outside the residence to protest, and we did not see any weapons,’ Sgt. Nicole Kirkwood said.

The Trump campaign had flagged the surveillance video during a hearing last week, citing it as evidence of voter fraud.

The Pentagon announced that the majority of the approximately 700 troops in Somalia will leave the area by January 15.

The House on Friday passed a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, the first time either legislative chamber has passed a measure to do so.

Representative Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday criticized President-elect Joe Biden for his decision to tap Neera Tanden for a Cabinet-level position in his administration, saying Tanden’s foreign policy makes her a bad choice to handle the country’s budget.

While he was vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Adler recorded a video message urging the public to stay home that was posted to his Facebook page.

President Trump fired Chris Krebs, his head of cybersecurity, earlier this month after Krebs disputed Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him.

Before Biden tapped Tanden, Republican senators were already calling her nomination doomed from the start.

Cuomo said the state will attempt to prevent hospitals from running out of resources by requiring that hospitals transfer patients within their system.

The nominees so far include familiar names from the Obama administration, including a number of prominent figures close to Hillary Clinton.