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![Retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, the Biden administration's choice to be secretary of defense, will likely face questions at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday about the stepped-up military presence following the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ap_20344695856708-2e8e97e0c5130f330351331400f6288bcbc49334-scaled-e1611072755214-900x422.jpg)
Senate Begins Biden Cabinet Confirmation Hearings As Impeachment Trial Looms
By: Deirdre Walsh | NPR
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The Senate returns for the first time since the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Five committees will question nominees to lead Defense, State, Homeland Security, Treasury and the top intelligence post.
![President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Dr. David Kessler, shown here during a briefing before the election, to be the White House's chief science officer of COVID Response.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gettyimages-1229325671-d6237bc5c0a94983761780b75faf8f97fe00dab7-scaled-e1610740887833-900x422.jpg)
Biden Administration Will Rename ‘Operation Warp Speed,’ Citing Trump ‘Failures’
By: Merrit Kennedy | NPR
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The Biden transition team also announced that Dr. David Kessler will be the White House’s chief science officer of COVID Response.
![Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., preside over a joint session of Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump, hours after a pro-Trump mob broke into the U.S. Capitol and disrupted proceedings.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gettyimages-1230461173-2876cd7b71b51fa30b5737fa49f7d43d9a5035ff-scaled-e1610009414924-900x422.jpg)
Congress Certifies Biden Victory After Pro-Trump Rioters Storm The Capitol
By: Juana Summers | NPR
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Lawmakers returned to the Capitol after hours of chaos in which protesters forced their way into the building and abruptly halted Congress’ tally of Electoral College votes.
![A supporter of President-elect Joe Biden holds up his mobile phone to display the Electoral College map outside the Philadelphia Convention Center after the 2020 presidential election is called on Nov. 7.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/electoral-college-35a54c3f20979a26acca9f3b6235e15d58548c70-scaled-e1607459561252-900x422.jpg)
Biden’s Victory Cemented As States Reach Key Electoral College Deadline
By: Miles Parks | NPR
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Dec. 8 is known as the “safe harbor” deadline for states to certify their results. Past the deadline, Congress has significantly less latitude to intervene in the election results.
![Police officers in Ferguson, Mo., during a protest in 2014. Advocates want the Justice Department to step up its oversight of law enforcement in the incoming administration.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ap_19184571523000-9379b79e6c58cc521c276f28db3abf265e68b39d-scaled-e1606696622211-900x422.jpg)
Advocates Push For Resurrection Of DoJ Civil Rights Division Under Biden
By: Carrie Johnson | NPR
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Critics say President Trump constrained the Civil Rights Division from being as effective as it should. Business could look very different under the new incoming administration.
![President Trump, seen here on Saturday, hasn't formally conceded the election to Joe Biden but says he is allowing the transition to proceed.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ap_20326661857750-372ce67b877e51a16fe332b5ebf13451cad6ecd9-scaled-e1606233867156-900x422.jpg)
Facing Pressure, Trump Relents On Starting Biden Transition
By: Ayesha Rascoe | Tamara Keith | NPR
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Some Republican lawmakers have publicly urged the president to allow the formal transition process to begin for the good of the country.
!["There's this sense that decisions about the pandemic are being made in cities and kind of imposed on rural spaces," said Kathy Cramer, an expert on the rural-urban divide at the University of Wisconsin.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gettyimages-542587466-9a0c80319850cb5d589566b4b50e07add1ed441f-scaled-e1605710592248-900x422.jpg)
Biden’s Win Shows Rural-Urban Divide Has Grown Since 2016
By: Kirk Siegler | NPR
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In the 2020 election, the rural-urban divide sharpened even further from 2016, with Republicans consolidating power in rural America which could help them hold onto the U.S. Senate.
![BarbiAnn Maynard drives 45 minutes from her home in Martin County, Kentucky, to a spring at the Mingo-Logan county line in West Virginia to fill containers with fresh water.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/100Days_Water_70-e1605542109130-900x422.jpg)
What Biden’s Plan For “Building Back Better” Could Mean For The Ohio Valley
By: Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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BARLOW, Ky. (OVR) — David Meinschein’s teachers, staff and students have sacrificed a lot this year amid the staggering challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. He opens the door heading inside… Read More
![Vice Adm. Vivek Murthy, pictured at the Lake Nona Impact Forum in 2017, is a former surgeon general and is one of three co-chairs of President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 advisory board.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ap_878648323551-f83a4820b0cfa5d8ef5f54dacce3b9c45dabde7d-scaled-e1604939921815-900x422.jpg)
Biden Names 13 Health Experts To COVID-19 Transition Advisory Board
By: Scott Neuman I NPR
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The team, which includes former federal health officials, aims to create a blueprint for the incoming administration’s COVID-19 response as the nation battles a new surge in infections.