Politics

President Biden is calling for unity to address several current crises, but that will prove difficult in a country as divided as ever.

Donald Trump leaves D.C. on a wave of pardons, including one for Robin Hayes. Charlotte City Council begins accepting applications for a replacement for longtime Councilman James Mitchell. Insider trading investigations into Sen. Richard Burr have been dropped, and we get an update on the virus and the vaccine.

President Biden laid out his approach to the pandemic before he took office. On Thursday, he began implementing it, calling the effort a "wartime undertaking."

The Democratic National Committee is set to formally elect Jaime Harrison of South Carolina as chairman on Thursday, signifying an early alignment between newly inaugurated President Joe Biden and state party leaders around the country.

Biden signed 15 executive actions on priorities including COVID-19, climate change, racial justice — and a rollback of some Trump rules.

In a move requested by abortion rights advocates, Biden is preparing to overturn the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits U.S. aid to groups that provide or refer for abortion overseas.

Under the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security looks set to roll back several Trump-era immigration policies and to establish a path to citizenship for immigrants.

A collection of conspiracy theories fuel the QAnon community, but one prediction was central: that former president Donald Trump would arrest Democratic leaders in masse. That didn't happen.

A Charlotte City Council committee voted unanimously Wednesday to put a report on housing discrimination before the council.

President Biden called for Americans to listen to one another and to disagree on the basis of facts, obliquely invoking the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol as the cost of trafficking in lies.