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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Joe Biden pauses as he signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden’s climate steps could have big impact on energy firms

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. In the closing months of the Trump administration, energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years. That stands to undercut President-elect Joe Biden's plans to block new drilling on public lands to address climate change. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Biden halts oil and gas leases, permits on US land and water

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Secretary of Defense nominee Lloyd Austin, a recently retired Army general, speaks during his conformation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP)

Congress poised for quick action on Biden’s Pentagon nominee

By ROBERT BURNS and ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

Illustration on the proposed national minimum wage by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s proposed $15 minimum wage will destroy the U.S. economy

By Gabe Kaminsky

Natiruts, Marley, Aparicio sing for unity of the Americas

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS - Associated Press

In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo, then-Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison speaks at a watch party in Columbia, S.C., after losing the Senate race. Harrison now leads up the Democratic National Committee. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro, File)

Democrats formalize Jaime Harrison as national party chair

By MEG KINNARD and BILL BARROW - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he meets students during his visits at the centre of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Paris-Sarclay university in Orsay, west of Paris, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. France's President Emmanuel Macron will formalize the French strategy on quantum technologies by presenting an investment plan of 1.8 billion euros (US $ 2.18 billion) over five years. (Yoan Valat/Pool Photo via AP)

Emmanuel Macron calls on Biden to beef up commitment to fight against terrorism

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

North Dakota officials condemn pipeline permit revocation

Associated Press

In this Dec. 10, 2020, file photo, a &quot;Now Hiring&quot; sign hangs on the front wall of a Harbor Freight Tools store in Manchester, N.H. The latest figures for jobless claims, issued Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 by the Labor Department, remain at levels never seen until the virus struck. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

US jobless claims decline to a still-high 900,000

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press

Amazon offers assist with US COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Associated Press

Fireworks explode over the Washington Monument with the Marine Corps War Memorial in the foreground, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Arlington, Va., as part of the festivities after President Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar)

Biden revokes Trump report promoting ‘patriotic education’

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Most Pennsylvania GOP backed Trump to the end, and still do

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

In this Dec. 16, 2020, file photo President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Transportation Secretary former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, President-elect speaks during a news conference at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP, File)

Biden Cabinet: Buttigieg urges big funds for Transportation

By HOPE YEN and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

From left, Bobbi Furlong, Carol Flaker, and Becky McAdams of New Jersey show the paper numbers that reserve their place in line to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at International High School in Paterson, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Paterson's mayor called on the federal government to provide New Jersey with more coronavirus vaccines as the city's walk-in site again drew several hundred people, some of whom had lined up at 4:30 a.m. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Biden’s COVID-19 plan: Masks, testing, more vaccine supplies

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, in the Queens borough of New York. New York officials are pushing for more COVID-19 vaccine doses as the effort to speed up inoculations collides with a lack of vaccine. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that the city will run out of first doses of COVID-19 vaccine sometime Thursday without fresh supplies. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool, File)

Biden signs burst of virus orders, vows ‘Help is on the way’

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, Brenda Bravo Torres stands at a park in Reno, Nev., holding a photograph of her husband Miguel Angel Lopez Villal Pinzon who died of COVID-19 in August 2020. Nevada reported 71 new deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, surpassing the highest single-day death toll, the 63 reported just last Saturday. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)

The Latest: Shanghai locks down 2 major hospitals over cases

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff arrive for the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Who’s in charge: Career staffers move to acting Cabinet head

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Joe Biden's cousin Joe Blewitt speaks to the media underneath his mural painted on a wall in Ballina, Ireland, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Joe Biden's great-great grandfather Patrick Blewitt was born in Ballina, County Mayo, in 1832. He left for the US in 1850, aged 18. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

World hopes for renewed cooperation with US under Biden

By LORNE COOK and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

In this image from video, Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., on the floor of the Senate Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Senate Television via AP)

Senate confirms Biden 1st Cabinet pick as Democrats control

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press