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President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, to announce key administration posts. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Stimulus check updates: Biden to unveil coronavirus relief plan with a price tag likely ‘in the trillions of the dollars’ next week

January 8, 2021 at 4:51 p.m.

President-elect Joe Biden said he'll offer details of his first COVID-19 aid proposal next Thursday with a price tag likely "in the trillions of the dollars." Biden spoke Friday in...

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) gestures as she speaks about the presidential election at her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on November 6, 2020.

Second stimulus check updates: Dueling coronavirus relief bill visions cloud lame-duck outlook

November 6, 2020 at 1:51 p.m.

Republicans and Democrats are moving in opposite directions on another coronavirus relief package, lowering the odds of a deal this year. Republicans argued Friday that Democrats' loss of House seats...

Both protesters and supporters of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett rally during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill on Oct. 22, 2020. Judge Barrett's nomination to the high court was advanced to a full Senate vote.

Court-packing? Biden suggests a judicial commission, which gets eye-rolls from left and right.

October 22, 2020 at 4:28 p.m.

Former Vice President Joe Biden's plan to set up a commission to study how to overhaul (and perhaps expand) federal courts is unlikely to make anyone happy. But it could...

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