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The COVID vaccine has been credited with saving millions of lives.

Trump will be sworn in inside the Capitol Rotunda.

This is a listing for 'This Week' airing Sunday, January 19, 2025.

Over 300 Black residents were killed on May 31 and June 1 in 1921.

AFPI-aligned officials are flooding the upper ranks of Trump's administration.

The last time cold weather forced an inauguration indoors was in 1985, during President Ronald Reagan's second swearing-in.

Vance, the vice president-elect, served less than two years in the chamber.

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Friday that he spoke by phone with China’s President Xi Jinping.

A target for political criticism, he spoke in an exit interview with ABC News.

TikTok faces a ban on Sunday, unless it cuts ties with parent company ByteDance.

Cardona's tenure was mired by higher education woes.

Elizabeth Neumann, the former DHS assistant secretary for counterterrorism, discusses President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of homeland security.

Political debate around the ERA has ramped up in Biden's final months in office.

The firebrand governor rose to prominence during COVID-19.

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer and ABC News contributor Brian Buckmire discuss the ruling involving the social media platform.

The president-elect said they discussed TikTok, fentanyl and trade.

South Dakota's Republican governor will be questioned before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The meeting will be the latest correspondence between the incoming Trump administration and Mayor Eric Adams, who last month met with incoming border czar Tom Homan.

He will be succeeding Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego.

The current lead of Trump's security detail is the top candidate, sources said.

The two will "discuss New Yorkers' priorities," the mayor's spokesperson said.

"And they go hard," a press release from the transition said about the portraits.

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head up the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, emphasized accountability during hours of testimony Thursday.

He called his role "the greatest honor of my life"

In his farewell address, Attorney General Merrick Garland sought to encourage an embattled DOJ facing uncertainty and to unabashedly defend his tenure and their work.

He agreed to review distributions under the signature Biden climate law.

He took head-on the criticism that has been leveled at his leadership.

The ban goes into effect on Sunday unless the Supreme Court intervenes.

Rudy Giuliani reached a settlement agreement with two former election workers he was found to have defamed, a joint letter from both parties said Thursday.

He was interrupted while making remarks in the State Department briefing room.

The two will be sworn in on Monday, Jan. 20.

A past bill aimed to ban Rep. Zooey Zephyr from capitol women's bathrooms.

Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner has been removed as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and will not serve in that powerful role in the new Congress.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Hamas was attempting to renege "on parts of the agreement reached in an effort to extort last minute concessions."

Moody is currently serving as Florida's top law enforcement officer.

A spokesman did not disclose a reason why she is skipping the event.

ABC News’ Alex Presha takes a closer look at the record and qualifications of President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who could become the first Latino to hold the post.

He spoke from the Oval Office for a final time as president.

President Joe Biden delivers a farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said the committee needs a "fresh start."

Bondi vowed to lead an apolitical DOJ but offered few details of her reforms.

President Joe Biden gave his last Oval Office address as he prepares to hand over power to President-elect Donald Trump and exit politics after a decades-long career.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary, Chris Wright, testified Wednesday before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

A senior official said Biden and Trump teams started talking after the election.

"I see three immediate tasks where I will focus my attention," he said.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, faced questions for more than five hours before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

Adult entertainment industry warns the case could erode free speech protections.

Tennessee Rep. David Kustoff reacts to the announcement of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Biden answered when asked who deserves credit in the history books.

Trump's onetime rival appears on a glide path to becoming secretary of state.