President Biden delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 46th president.
As President Joe Biden took the oath of office on Jan. 20 with his history-making vice president, Kamala Harris, people around the nation seemed cautiously optimistic.
Biden and Harris take office in the wake of an attempt by supporters of President Donald Trump to block Congress from certifying Electoral College votes on Jan. 6 that turned violent and deadly. In the two weeks since the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, federal law enforcement officers have made arrests and charged people from across the nation for their role in the mob.
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At first, New York’s Covid-19 vaccine problem was that it couldn’t get the doses it had into people’s arms fast enough. With strict rules in place limiting who was eligible,
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There are now 6,147 people hospitalized for Covid-19 in New York state, a level not seen since the middle of May. For weeks now, the mayor and the governor have been warning every day that things are getting worse, and it’s easy to get lost in a sea of numbers. But to put that figure in perspective, as the Wall Street Journal notes, it is six times the number of New Yorkers hospitalized just two months ago.