United States President-elect, Joe Biden welcomed Donald Trump’s announcement on Friday that he won’t attend the January 20 inauguration, calling it “a good thing.” “I was told on the way over here that he indicated he wasn’t going to show up at the inauguration,” the president-elect told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware. “One of the few … Read more
United States President, Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will skip Joe Biden’s inauguration in a final, unrepentant act of division as his presidency imploded amid demands that he step aside for the last 12 days in office. “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on … Read more
President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday accused US authorities of treating pro-Trump protesters more leniently than anti-racism demonstrators who were forcibly dispersed by police in Washington last year. “No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday… they wouldn’t have been treated very, very different than the … Read more
Biden picks Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has formally announced judge Merrick Garland as his nominee for attorney-general, a role that amounts to being the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Garland, a Justice Department veteran, currently serves on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He … Read more
The US Senate reconvened late Wednesday and resumed the process of certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory, after a mob protesting Donald Trump’s defeat violently invaded the Capitol building. “As we reconvene in this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and strength of our democracy,” Vice President Mike Pence said as he brought … Read more
Democrat Raphael Warnock ousted an incumbent Republican on Wednesday in the first of two critical runoff elections in Georgia that will decide control of the US Senate at the outset of Joe Biden’s presidency, according to US media. Warnock, a Black pastor with deep roots in Georgia, narrowly ousted his rival Senator Kelly Loeffler, CBS, … Read more
United States Vice-President, Mike Pence has hailed an effort by a group of senators to refuse to certify Joe Biden’s presidential election win. The 11 Republican senators and senators-elect, led by Ted Cruz, want a 10-day delay to audit unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud. According to the BBC, the move will most likely fail as … Read more
US Elections 2020: Polls close in key battleground states A coalition of 11 Republican senators announced Saturday it will challenge the outcome of the presidential election by voting to reject electors from some states when Congress meets next week to certify the Electoral College results that confirmed President-elect Joe Biden won, Eko hot blog gathered. … Read more
At least 140 Republican members of the US House of Representatives are expected to vote against counting the electoral votes on January 6 when Congress is expected to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. According to the CNN, President Donald Trump’s Republican allies have virtually zero chance of changing the result, only to delay by a … Read more
Nigerian-American, Osaremen Okolo has been picked as one of United States President-elect, Joe Biden’s COVID-19 policy advisor. Okolo was among 100 names announced as additional members of the White House staff by the Biden transition team on Wednesday. Read also: Biden To Announce First Cabinet Appointments Nov. 24 Born to Nigerian parents, she currently serves … Read more
United States President-elect, Joe Biden has alleged that his transition team has “encountered roadblocks” from political leadership at the Defense Department and the Office of Management and Budget as his advisers work with the Trump administration. “We just aren’t getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas,” … Read more
About 14 million Americans have temporarily lost their unemployment benefits after incumbent President, Donald Trump failed to sign the Covid relief bill into law. President-elect, Joe Biden had warned of “devastating consequences” if Trump continued to delay signing but the Saturday deadline has now passed. According to the BBC, unemployment benefits and a ban on … Read more
US President-elect Joe Biden received a Covid-19 vaccine live on television Monday in a campaign to boost Americans’ confidence in the jabs. AFP reports that the 78-year-old incoming president got the Pfizer vaccine at the Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware. His wife Jill received the shot earlier, the presidential transition team said. Biden told Americans … Read more
United States President, Donald Trump has expressed his disappointment in the country’s Supreme Court after it rejected a Republican lawsuit that sought to overturn the victory of President-elect, Joe Biden in November’s presidential election. “I am very disappointed in the United States Supreme Court, and so is our great country!”Trump said in a tweet on … Read more
Joe Biden was confirmed as the next US president on Monday as the Electoral College formalized his victory over Trump, all but closing the door on the incumbent’s efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 election. As Biden appealed to Americans to “turn the page” on the divisive contest, electors met across all US … Read more
United States President-Elect, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter has said his tax affairs are under investigation. According to the BBC, the investigation is being conducted by federal prosecutors in Delaware. Hunter Biden said he took the case “very seriously” but was confident an “objective review” would show he had handled his affairs “legally and appropriately”. The … Read more
United States President-Elect, Joe Biden has set a goal of 100 million Covid vaccinations in his first 100 days in office, BBC reports. He said his first months in office would not end the outbreak but gave few details on rollout strategy and promised to change the course of COVID-19. Introducing his health team for … Read more
Joe Biden President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named the team tasked with turning around the United States’ floundering efforts to quell the Covid-19 pandemic, nominating Xavier Becerra as his secretary of health. When Biden takes office on January 20, his health team will be immediately responsible for rolling out a historic immunization drive set to … Read more
US President Donald Trump has pressed the Republican governor of Georgia to help overturn Joe Biden’s election victory in the state. In a series of tweets, he urged governor Brian Kemp to call a special session of the state legislature. It came hours before Mr Trump attended a campaign rally in Georgia for upcoming Senate … Read more
President-elect Joe Biden says Americans won’t be forced to take a coronavirus vaccine when one becomes available in the US. BBC reports that it comes as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for the first time urged “universal mask use” indoors, unless when Americans are at their own home. The CDC said the US had … Read more