Day: January 6, 2025

President Joe Biden on Monday announced an executive action that will permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be especially difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo.

The order will protect some 625 million acres of ocean along America’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Bering Sea.

The House’s top Democrat made it clear his party won’t respond as Republicans did on Jan. 6, 2021. “There are no election deniers on our side of the aisle,” Hakeem Jeffries said.

In response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot four years ago, Congress passed new rules to govern the presidential certification process. Those rules will be in effect Monday.

As Kamala Harris presides over a joint session of Congress to certify her loss to Donald Trump, she will be focused on ensuring a peaceful transfer of power.

Donald Trump has promised to pardon Capitol riot defendants, but the reach of those pardons remains uncertain.

The first major winter storm of 2025 is moving through South Jersey, Philadelphia, Delaware and the Pennsylvania suburbs. Here’s what to know.