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Amid the ongoing pandemic and heightened security concerns, the public has been urged to avoid traveling to Washington, D.C. for the inauguration, which normally draws hundreds of thousands of spectators.
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The outgoing president wanted to lift travel bans on visitors from much of Europe and Brazil.
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Lewis Lukens says the Biden administration will have to work hard to rebuild relationships with global partners after the Trump years.
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"Please don't stop the rescue," said a handwritten note from the miners. "We have hope."
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The Colorado congresswoman said that the claims made on CNN by Rep. Steve Cohen had endangered her family and her staff.
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 The more opportunities the coronavirus has to replicate, the more it will evolve, potentially creating a new variant that won't be mitigated by current vaccines. With concerning sets of mutations already popping up around the world, scientists are on high alert.
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 With Alexei Navalny back in Russia five months after surviving a poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok, his courageous return presented Russian President Vladimir Putin -- who Navalny believes ordered his killing -- with two choices: allow the high-profile activist to continue to be a thorn in his side or lock him up in the hopes that he fades into obscurity.
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Iranian officials have said they are open to Biden's proposal to revive the JCPOA nuclear deal.
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The approximately 191,500 U.S. flags are said to represent those who are unable to watch the inauguration in person.
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Several of President-elect Joe Biden's cabinet nominees will have hearings today, including his picks to lead the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense. President Trump is expected to issue dozens of pardons.
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Having won by projecting competence and renewal, the new president has a narrow window to get things done
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Emanuel Jackson handed himself in to police after images and video of him in Washington, D.C. were shared by authorities.
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A subsidiary of German industrial giant Thyssenkrupp has been awarded an engineering contract for the project.
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The team's owner said Jared Porter has been terminated after ESPN reported he repeatedly sent explicit messages to a reporter while he worked for the Chicago Cubs in 2016.
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The last four years have been a whirlwind - we asked the experts to break down Trump's key moments.
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Jared Porter reportedly sent dozens of unsolicited text messages — including one with a nude photo — to a reporter in 2016.
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The president faces a Senate trial and the prospect of being barred from holding office, however he might still look to turn the situation and outcome to his advantage.
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The news comes amid a growing row over quarantine rules for the players ahead of the tournament.
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 Some provincial authorities saw encouraging signs in the fight against COVID-19 on Monday, even as experts warned that it's too soon to draw conclusions from the data and provinces scrambled to deal with a looming shortage of Pfizer vaccines.
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The judgment of history will be damning.
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The quarantine controversy over tennis' Australian Open has raised questions about whether large-scale international sporting events can take place in the middle of a pandemic and could offer a preview of the difficulties facing this summer's Tokyo Olympics.
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A group of company leaders and former policymakers argue that "globalism" isn't an epithet. Instead, they argue, it is the way forward.
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Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.
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Catch enough Groudon and Kyogre, and you'll be rewarded with a special Rayquaza.
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The World Economic Forum shares its outlook for the biggest threats globally in its 2021 risk report.
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The cricket world, including former stars Michael Vaughan and Virender Sehwag, react to India's outstanding win over Australia.
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Mayorkas, who would be the first Latino and first immigrant to lead DHS, was previously the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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Tuesday: An update on the state's plagued unemployment system. Also: California's changing of the guard.
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The former MLB player has long been a vocal Trump supporter and has repeatedly pushed baseless claims the election, and Joe Biden's victory, was rigged.
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The vote in Italy's upper house was triggered by a row over EU funds to tackle Covid.
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India's series-clinching victory over Australia at the Gabba is one of their "greatest wins ever" according to former batsman Mohammad Kaif.
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Prime minister prevailed in lower house but faces a tougher task in upper chamber
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The coronavirus pandemic has devastated medical tourism, but pent-up demand remains for affordable treatment in foreign lands.
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By a 60%-to-27% margin, Americans said they thought Trump would go down as either one of the worst presidents in history or below average. President-elect Joe Biden is viewed more positively.
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Hopes raised after 12 workers trapped by an explosion at a gold mine in eastern China make contact with rescuers.
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Events on Wednesday, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes the oath of office, will have a more celebratory theme.
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny posted a video online urging Russians to take to the streets to protest against the government. Navalny was arrested after landing back in Moscow from Berlin. The dissident, who was in Germany receiving medical treatment after being poisoned, has been sentenced to an initial 30 day period in jail.
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The president's proclamation, which would not take effect until Jan. 26, after Joe Biden assumes office, was part of a flurry of orders that Mr. Biden is likely to reverse.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, about the arrest of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and its implications for global relations with Russia.
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The Putin critic returned to Russia after receiving treatment after being poisoned with what German scientists said was a Russian-made chemical weapon.
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In the capital city of Beijing, foreign investors claimed more than a third of commercial real estate deals last year, property manager JLL said Thursday.
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It accuses richer nations of a "me-first" approach to Covid vaccine, and hoarding precious supplies.
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The city is on edge after the riots at the Congress building in which five people died.
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It follows his dramatic return to Russia, five months after a nerve agent attack almost killed him.
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For many Egyptians, a video offered a rare and uncensored view of the coronavirus's real toll at the peak of Egypt's second wave of the pandemic.
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Navalny had been recuperating in Germany after narrowly surviving what has since been independently confirmed as poisoning by a Novichok nerve agent.
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President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration has been largely downsized because of the coronavirus pandemic and security concerns after the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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People who say Boris Johnson does not want Joe Biden as president are "mistaken", says Lord Sedwill.
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A sex abuse case involving a well-known intellectual sparked a deluge of testimonies by victims of abuse.
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The annual street survey of homeless people is being delayed or put off completely in some parts of the U.S. during the pandemic, even as the country's unsheltered population appears to be growing.
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Most of the annual Martin Luther King Day celebrations were canceled due to the pandemic. But after a year dominated by racial turmoil, many cities decided to commemorate the holiday virtually.
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Mr. Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition leader, was arrested at a Moscow airport after five months in Germany. The hearing took place inside the police station where he was being detained.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Gregory Koger, a political science professor at the University of Miami, about the challenge President-elect Biden faces passing legislation in a split Senate.
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A Pakistani diplomatic campaign that seeks to tarnish India's image on the world stage is aimed at the incoming Biden administration.
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