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A mix of hope and dismay as religious leaders assess Biden

Donald Trump's departure from the White House and the start of Joe Biden’s presidency have stirred new hopes among many religious leaders in the United States, while causing dismay among others.

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CDC issues face mask order for US public transport

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an order requiring the use of face masks on nearly all forms of public transportation from Monday as the country continues to report thousands of daily Covid-19 deaths.

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As Wisconsin's Johnson weighs future, Trump ties take a toll

MADISON, Wis. – After President Donald Trump lost his reelection bid, most Senate Republicans, his Justice Department and the courts dismissed or disputed his baseless claims about a “stolen election." Not Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson.

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Biden faces scrutiny over reliance on executive orders

President Joe Biden and aides showed touches of prickliness Thursday over growing scrutiny of the new president’s heavy reliance on executive orders in his first days in office.

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Pelosi wants security money to face 'enemy' within House

WASHINGTON – More money is needed to protect lawmakers from threats of violence coming from an “enemy” within Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday, a startling acknowledgment of how tensions over safety have escalated since this month's Capitol attack by supporters of former President Donald Trump.

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Sinclair Broadcasting ends Eric Bolling's weekly show

NEW YORK – The Sinclair Broadcast Group says it is ending its “America This Week” show with Eric Bolling, which has been criticized for misstatements about the coronavirus pandemic.

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Biden to outline US racial equity plan and sign executive actions

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Tuesday will outline his agenda for racial equity in the U.S. and sign executive actions at the White House. The planned executive actions will cap off Biden’s first week in office, in which he has signed several executive orders related to the country’s COVID-19 response and undid many of former President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration and environmental deregulation."America has never lived up to its founding promise of equality for all, but we’ve never stopped trying," Biden said Tuesday in a tweet.

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Top US coronavirus expert recommends "double masking" - wearing two masks not one

America's top infectious diseases expert says people should consider wearing two masks - as it's "common sense".

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House managers present articles to Senate, 2nd impeachment of Donald Trump to begin Feb. 8

WASHINGTON - Democrats marched the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate Monday night for the start of his historic trial, but Republican senators were easing off their criticism of the former president and shunning calls to convict him over the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol.It's an early sign of Trump's enduring sway over the party.The House prosecutors delivered the sole impeachment charge of "incitement of insurrection," making the ceremonial walk across the Capitol to the Senate.

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Birx says Trump used ‘parallel’ COVID-19 graphs that she ‘never made’

Donald Trump had a “parallel” source of COVID-19 information outside of his top task-force doctors, according to Dr. Deborah Birx, who was on the White House’s coronavirus team.“I saw the president presenting graphs that I never made,” Birx told CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday.

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Biden replaces White House doctor with longtime physician

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden has brought back Dr. Kevin O'Connor as his physician, replacing President Donald Trump's doctor with the one who oversaw his care when he was vice president.

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House to send Trump impeachment charge to Senate Monday, GOP opposes trial

WASHINGTON - As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming the chances that the former president will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol.House Democrats will carry the sole impeachment charge of "incitement of insurrection" across the Capitol late Monday evening, a rare and ceremonial walk to the Senate by the prosecutors who will argue their case.

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Schumer outlines Senate agenda, says Trump impeachment trial will be fair but move quickly

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Sunday a Senate agenda plan for the next three weeks, which he said concerns former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, advancing the COVID-19 relief bill and Biden administration cabinet nominations.

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Armed man arrested by Secret Service near White House, police say

White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday after he was found with a gun in his car, police say.Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department told Global News 37-year-old Macias Santiago of Midland, TX was arrested by members of the Secret Service. 2 National Guard members pulled from Biden inauguration over extremist ties: officials Police said he was arrested for carrying a pistol without a license, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of unregistered ammunition.The news comes less than a week after U.S.

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House sending Trump impeachment to Senate, GOP opposes trial

WASHINGTON – As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming the chances that former president will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol.

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After failed Trump romance, France seeks reset under Biden

PARIS – After increasingly strained U.S.-France relations under Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed Sunday to work closely together to fight the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.Their first conversation since Biden’s inauguration aimed at mending frayed ties between the historic allies. Biden “stressed his commitment to bolstering the transatlantic relationship” via NATO and the EU.

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Some in the White House believed coronavirus was ‘a hoax,’ former Trump advisor says

Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force, she had to grapple with COVID-19 deniers in the White House and that someone gave the president “parallel” streams of data that conflicted with hers.Defending her tenure, Birx told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that she was at times censored by the Trump administration but denied ever withholding information.

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Coronavirus: Birx claims Trump was being fed ‘parallel set of data’ on COVID-19

Speaking to Margaret Brennan on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, Dr. Deborah Birx claimed former president Donald Trump was being fed a “parallel set of data” about the impact of COVID-19 in the U.S.

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Coronavirus: Birx points to censorship, ‘leaking’ in Trump administration’s response to COVID-19

Dr. Deborah Birx, who was among the health experts on the U.S.

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Germany buys same antibody treatments used to treat Trump

Germany will become the first European Union country to start using the same experimental antibodies treatment credited with helping Donald Trump recover from Covid-19, health minister Jens Spahn said today.

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Germany first EU nation to use Covid-19 medicines used to treat Donald Trump

European Union country to start using the same experimental antibodies treatment credited with helping Donald Trump recover from Covid-19, health minister Jens Spahn said Sunday."The government has bought 200,000 doses for 400 million euros ($486 million)," Spahn told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, working out at 2,000 euros per dose.Patients will receive them free of charge, a health ministry spokeswoman told AFP.Two different kinds of so-called monoclonal antibody therapies will be made available to university hospitals from the coming week, with Spahn saying Germany was "the first country in the EU" to deploy them in the fight against the pandemic.Both treatments have been approved for emergency use in the United States but have yet to

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Why Biden's immigration plan may be risky for Democrats

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is confronting the political risk that comes with grand ambition.As one of his first acts, Biden offered a sweeping immigration overhaul last week that would provide a path to U.S. citizenship for the estimated 11 million people who are in the United States illegally.

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MyPillow guy eyes Minnesota Governor run, says he has Trump's support

US President Donald Trump listens as Michael J. Lindell, CEO of MyPillow Inc., speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 30, 2020.

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Schumer outlines Trump impeachment trial timeline, says it will begin February

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday outlined the timeline for the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, stating that it’s expected the trial would begin the week of Feb. 8.

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Over 150 National Guard at Biden’s inauguration in Washington test positive for COVID-19

National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., to provide security for President Joe Biden‘s inauguration have tested positive for the coronavirus, a U.S. official said on Friday.The U.S.

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The Latest: French doctors: Don't talk on public transport

UK doctors urge government to review policy of delaying 2nd virus vaccine shot for 12 weeks— Life in the Chinese city of Wuhan back to normal a year after deadly pandemic erupted there.— Dr. Fauci says a lack of candor about the coronavirus pandemic under President Donald Trump “very likely” cost lives.— Japan is publicly adamant it will stage the postponed Olympics, but faces vaccine roadblocks.

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2nd impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump to begin week of Feb. 8, Schumer says

WASHINGTON - Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the Capitol riot will begin the week of Feb.

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Trump shuns 'ex-presidents club' — and the feeling is mutual

WASHINGTON – It's a club Donald Trump was never really interested in joining and certainly not so soon: the cadre of former commanders in chief who revere the presidency enough to put aside often bitter political differences and even join together in common cause.Members of the ex-presidents club pose together for pictures. They smile and pat each other on the back while milling around historic events, or sit somberly side by side at VIP funerals.

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Schumer: Trump impeachment trial to begin week of Feb. 8

WASHINGTON – Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the Capitol riot will begin the week of Feb. 8, the first time a former president will face such charges after leaving office.

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Over 150 National Guard troops in Washington for Biden inauguration test positive for Covid-19

National Guard deployed to Washington, DC, to provide security for President Joe Biden's inauguration have tested positive for the coronavirus, a US official told news agency Reuters on Friday.The US government imposed unprecedented security measures in the city following the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, including fences topped with razor wire and checkpoints manned by the National Guard.Thousands of national guard troops from across the country arrived in Washington in response to escalating security threats and fears of further rioting.Guard forces were scattered around the city this week, helping to secure the Capitol, as well as monuments, Metro entrances and the perimeter of

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More than 100 National Guard members in DC test positive for coronavirus

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 14: Members of the National Guard, outside the U.S. Capitol Building a day after the House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump, and over a week after a pro-Trump insurrectionist mob breached the security of th More than 100 National Guard members stationed at the Capitol have tested positive for COVID-19, defense officials said Friday. Pictures and reports of guard members working in close proximity to each other raised concerns about a potential outbreak. Sen.

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Joe Biden warns 'we need to act' as he fast-tracks Covid stimulus cheques and food aid

Joe Biden has ordered pandemic stimulus cheques to be fast-tracked as the new US President tackles the coronavirus crisis with urgency.

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Former U.S. president Donald Trump arrives in Florida after departing the White House

Former U.S. president Donald Trump arrived in West Palm Beach, Fla. Wednesday afternoon after he left the White House. Trump arrived to cheers from supporters as his motorcade arrived at his estate at Mar-a-Lago.

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Masks, testing, distancing: Coronavirus measures now the rule in Biden’s White House

coronavirus public health guidlines.It’s a striking contrast to Donald Trump’s White House, which was the epicenter of no less than three separate outbreaks of COVID-19, their true scale not fully known because aides refused to discuss cases publicly.

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Coronavirus guidelines now the rule at White House

WASHINGTON – Testing wristbands are in. Mask-wearing is mandatory.

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Full on Fauci: Doctor says Biden administration is ‘liberating’

Anthony Fauci is back.In truth, the nation’s leading infectious-diseases expert never really went away. But after enduring nearly a year of darts and undermining comments from former U.S.

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Testing wristbands, masks signs of a new boss at White House

WASHINGTON – Testing wristbands are in. Mask-wearing is mandatory.

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Biden cleans house at VOA after revolt over Trump changes

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration has moved quickly to remove a number of senior officials aligned with former President Donald Trump from the Voice of America and the agency that oversees all U.S.-funded international broadcasting.The actions address fears that the U.S. Agency for Global Media was being turned into a pro-Trump propaganda outlet.

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Implosion of former Trump Plaza casino pushed to Feb. 17, AC mayor says

The building which formerly housed the Trump Plaza casino is set to be imploded on Feb. 17.

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On first full day in WH, Joe Biden to sign 10 executive orders to combat Covid

Washington: President Joe Biden will sign 10 executive orders on Thursday to fight the coronavirus pandemic, including directing that disaster funds be used to help reopen schools and requiring that people wear masks on planes and buses, officials said.Biden, a Democrat who took over from Republican President Donald Trump on Wednesday, has promised a fierce fight against the pandemic that killed 400,000 people in the United States under Trump's watch."We’re entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus and must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation," the president said in his inauguration speech.One order will require mask-wearing in airports and on certain modes of public transportation,

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'Don’t haste ye back': Scotland's leader says 'cheerio' to Trump, congratulates Biden, Harris

EDINBURGH, Scotland - As former President Donald Trump departed the White House Wednesday morning for his new home in Florida, Scotland’s first minister said many people in her country "will be very happy to say ‘cheerio’ to Donald Trump." Speaking ahead of President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan.

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9 important people who weren’t at President Joe Biden’s inauguration

1. President Donald Trump: He announced on Twitter ahead of the inauguration that he would not be attending, and he stuck to his word.He’s the first outgoing president who chose not to attend the ceremony since President Andrew Johnson’s refusal in 1869.2. President Jimmy Carter: We typically see most of the former living presidents in attendance, but Carter, at 96, did not attend.3. Sen. Thom Tillis: Citing a recent surgery, the senator notified the Biden administration he would not be in attendance.I informed the incoming Biden administration that I regrettably won’t be able to attend President-elect Biden’s inauguration because of my recovery from a recent foot surgery.

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‘Honour of a lifetime’: Trump leaves White House for last time ahead of Biden inauguration

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania left the White House for the final time during his presidency on Wednesday morning.

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Networks stick with Trump in his unusual goodbye speech

NEW YORK – At the end of Donald Trump's presidency, television networks left the mute button unused.They covered Trump's farewell address at Joint Base Andrews, the opening event of a most unusual inauguration day, from beginning to end without pulling away — a possibility that MSNBC's Joe Scarborough raised as the outgoing president began to talk.“We're going to dip into this for as long as the president manages to tell the truth,” Scarborough said.His network, along with ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC, did not pull away. Trump bragged about his election vote totals but dropped the persistent claim that he had really won.

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America braces for Inauguration Day like no other as Biden set to emphasize call to unity

Joe Biden will officially become President of the United States in just a few short hours.But he is set to do so amid a political climate with tensions stretched to the breaking point, as well as some of the clearest threats of domestic terrorism that the U.S. has seen in living memory.After four years of political chaos, Donald Trump will no longer be president of the world’s largest democracy.

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Inauguration Day 2021: Biden, Harris set for historic swearing-in

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are set to be sworn in on Wednesday as the nation reels from the coronavirus pandemic, soaring unemployment and grave concerns about more political violence.You can watch live coverage from NewsNOW from FOX throughout the day in the video player above. Coverage of the inauguration is set to begin on the West front of the Capitol building at 10 a.m.

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Trump prepares to depart White House in final hours of presidency

WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump will walk out of the White House and board Marine One for the last time as president Wednesday morning, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly divided.Four years after standing on stage at his own inauguration and painting a dire picture of "American carnage," Trump departs the office twice impeached, with millions more out of work and 400,000 dead from the coronavirus. Republicans under his watch lost the presidency and both chambers of Congress.

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EU sighs with relief as Biden readies to enter White House

BRUSSELS – The European Union’s top officials breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday that Joe Biden will be taking over as president of the United States, but they warned that the world has changed after four years of Donald Trump and that trans-Atlantic ties will be different in the future.“This new dawn in America is the moment we’ve been awaiting for so long,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, hailing Biden’s arrival as “resounding proof that, once again after four long years, Europe has a friend in the White House.”“The United States are back, and Europe stands ready to reconnect with an old and trusted partner to breathe new life into our cherished alliance,” she told EU lawmakers, hours before Biden was to be

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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