With Democrats in Control, Biden Moves to Advance Agenda
By gaining the Senate, Democrats have the chance to move on large parts of the president-elect’s ambitions for the economy, health care, climate change and more.
The ability of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to push through key parts of his agenda and win confirmation of his cabinet selections received a significant lift this week.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
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WASHINGTON With his victory recognized by Congress and his party set to control both the House and Senate, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. moved on Thursday to fill out his cabinet, while his aides and allies drafted plans for an ambitious legislative agenda headlined by $2,000 stimulus checks to individual Americans.
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Since World War II, much of Europe has looked to the U.S. as a democratic model. The headlines in newspapers around the world on Thursday showed something else.
The images of a mob overrunning the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday touched a nerve in fractured Western societies, our Paris bureau chief writes: If it could happen at democracy’s heart, it could happen anywhere.
In a letter to President Trump Ms. DeVos said, “we are left to clean up the mess caused by violent protesters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the people’s business.”
Reuters Editor in Chief Is Stepping Down After a Decade
Stephen J. Adler will retire in April from the global news organization, which employs about 2,500 journalists.
Reuters aims to be “the eyes and ears of news organizations that can’t afford to have people everywhere in the world,” said Stephen J. Adler, its top editor since 2011.Credit.Craig Barritt/Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2021
The editor in chief of Reuters, Stephen J. Adler, will retire in April after 10 years at the helm of one of the world’s largest news agencies, the company announced Wednesday.
Mr. Adler, 65, was appointed to the top job in 2011, after joining the parent company, Thomson Reuters, the previous year. He was a former editor in chief of Businessweek. A search for his replacement will start in the coming days, Reuters said.
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Dec. 28, 2020
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As President-elect Joe Biden rolls out his climate and environment team, it is worth recalling, if only to grasp the distance between then and now, the hopeless bunch President-elect Donald Trump presented us with four years ago. Mr. Trump tapped Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency, Ryan Zinke the Interior Department and Rick Perry the Energy Department.
Mr. Pruitt, by common consent the worst of the mediocrities in Mr. Trump’s cabinet, helped persuade him to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change and set in motion the rollback of every important regulation approved by the Obama administration to reduce greenhouse gases. Mr. Zinke, in plain imitation of Teddy Roosevelt, rode a horse to work on his first day on the job, but within a year had ceded to the oil, gas and coal industries millions of acres of public land that Mr. Ro