President Joe Biden is hoping to boost US manufacturing with a new executive order Monday. The order seeks to increase the amount of US-made goods being bought by the federal government. It can be seen as a continuation of, or rival to, Trump's "America First" policy.

As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming the chances that former president will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the US Capitol.

US President Joe Biden on Monday will re-impose a Covid-19 travel ban on most non-US citizens who have been in Britain, Brazil, Ireland and much of Europe, a White House official announced, as the new administration ramps up its pandemic response.

The US Senate has announced it had reached agreement to focus with priority on President Joe Biden’s anti-crisis agenda and thus postpone with a couple weeks at least to early February hearings related to the impeachment of Donald Trump, Reuters reported. Both Democrat and Republican leaders in Senate have confirmed early focus on the legislative agenda of the new US cabinet.

Canada deported thousands of people even as COVID-19 raged last year, data seen by Reuters shows, and lawyers say deportations are ramping up, putting people needlessly at risk in the midst of a global health emergency.

Mask up or you won't be allowed to board a plane, train or bus in the US. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Thursday, requiring passengers to wear face coverings during interstate travel, news wires reported. It's one of 10 executive orders signed by the president aimed at addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 400,000 Americans.

US President Joe Biden signed 15 executive actions shortly after being sworn on Wednesday, his first day in office, undoing policies put in place by his predecessor Donald Trump and making his first moves on the pandemic and climate change, Reuters reported.

Washington braced for a tense inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday, as more than 25,000 National Guard troops stood watch over a barricaded city, emptied of the spectators who usually throng to the quadrennial ritual.

Republican President Donald Trump left the White House on Wednesday after a tumultuous four years in office, hours before Democrat Joe Biden assumes the helm of a country beset by deep political divides and battered by a raging coronavirus pandemic.

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Tuesday he believed President Donald Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China - even if he did not agree with all his methods - and endorsed the assessment that it was committing genocide in Xinjiang.