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Lloyd Austin

General Lloyd J. Austin III was sworn in as the United States Secretary of Defense on January 22, 2021, three days before President Joe Biden was inaugurated. Austin was confirmed by the Senate by a…

January 2022 Current Events: US News

Top of Page World News | Disaster News | Science & Technology News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the US…

Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman hit the national spotlight on January 20, 2021, when she gave a reading of her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden. At age 22, she was the youngest poet…

Tim Kaine

Tim Kaine is the Virginia senator named by by Hillary Clinton to be her vice-presidential running mate in her 2016 run for president of the United States. Born in Minnesota, Tim Kaine graduated from…

John McCain

John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. A 1958 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, John McCain had a 22-…

Our Top Stories for the Week of October 31, 2022

It’s been a busy week, from missiles and military drafting to changes in social media. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top stories of the week.   On…

Campaign 2012

    Election history and statistics, candidates, and party politics     Presidential Candidates Democratic Barack Obama Republican…

Cory Booker

Cory Booker has been a U.S. senator from the state of New Jersey since 2013. He is the state's first-ever African-American senator. The child of two IBM executives, Cory Booker graduated from New…

Dick Cheney

Name at birth: Richard Bruce CheneyDick Cheney was elected vice president of the United States in 2000, as the running mate of George W. Bush, and served in that office from 2001-2009. Dick Cheney…

Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris is the first woman, as well as the first woman of Black and Indian heritage, to be vice president of the United States. Kamala Harris grew up in central California, the child of two…