The Biden administration on Friday extended temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants residing in the United States as communities brace for the incoming Trump administration.

The Department of Homeland Security says about 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 200,000 El Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months.

The Biden administration announced Friday it would extend temporary deportation relief of nearly 1 million people from El Salvador, Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela, just days before Donald Trump enters the White House with a vow to restrict the program.

Aircraft fighting the Los Angeles wildfires were temporarily grounded Tuesday night into Wednesday morning due to high winds, but were allowed to fly on Wednesday during President Joe Biden’s visit to the city,

President Joe Biden on Wednesday met his first great-grandchild — and then pledged full aid to California firefighters battling a series of disastrous wildfires just miles to the west. The back-to-back trips to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a Santa Monica fire hall were unscheduled detours on one of final trips of Biden’s presidency.

At least five people are dead and many more injured as several fires broke out across Southern California amid historically dry and windy conditions.

Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page joins CNN’s Jake Tapper to discuss her latest interview with President Joe Biden.

President Biden insisted in an interview published Wednesday that he could have beaten President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election. In a sit down with USA Today, Biden claimed that polls suggested he could have won a second term if he had not dropped out of the race amid concerns about his age following a shaky summer debate with Trump.

Biden is ‘damaging Dem party’ by insisting he would have beaten Trump if he’d run in election Joe Biden is damaging his own political party by insisting he would've beat Donald Trump in the 2024 election,