LOS ANGELES - Voters penned a new chapter for the history books after electing Kamala Harris as vice president and Joe Biden as president.After the ballots were counted, Harris became the country’s first Black and first female second-in-command.

She will be inaugurated along with president-elect Biden on Jan. 20.Born in 1964, Harris is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants.

She previously made history in 2017 as the first Black and Indian American woman to represent California in the U.S. Senate.

In 2010, voters elected her as the first Black woman to serve as California attorney general.Kamala Harris, a 55-year-old first-term senator from California, is one of the Democratic Party's most prominent figures and quickly became a top.

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COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry said that it is conducting a study on the possibility of vaccinating children below the age of 12.Deputy Director-General of Health Services, Dr. G.

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International tensions causing higher gas prices stateside, experts say

PHILADELPHIA - Gas prices continue to climb across the nation as experts claim rising tensions at the Russia-Ukraine border is pushing up the cost of crude oil. According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of gas jumped roughly 7 cents last week. Closer to home, AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $3.44."Financially, yeah, it hurts," said Fatima Robinson, a Lyft driver from Fairmount.

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CHOP endorses optional masks in school districts with low COVID-19 numbers

PHILADELPHIA - As a winter surge of COVID-19 cases brought on by the highly-infectious Omicron variant continues to recede, some states have set a deadline for lifting mask mandates in schools. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stood by its recommendation for students to wear masks in school, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said this week that individual districts will have the power to set mask rules after Mar.

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DWP updates PIP guidance for assessments involving people with mental health conditions

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced significant changes to its guidance for health professionals carrying out Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments across the UK.

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President-elect Joe Biden defends health care law as Supreme Court mulls its fate

WILMINGTON, Del. – President-elect Joe Biden fought to confront the nation’s competing crises — and fierce Republican resistance — on Tuesday as concerns grew that President Donald Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his Democratic rival’s victory could undermine national security.Raising unsupported claims of voter fraud, Trump has blocked Biden from receiving the intelligence briefings traditionally shared with incoming presidents, according to someone with knowledge of the situation but not authorized to disclose private conversations.

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Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, to quit law firm

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Trump campaign sues to block certification of Biden win in Pennsylvania

Donald Trump‘s campaign on Monday filed a lawsuit in a Pennsylvania federal court, seeking to block state officials from certifying President-elect Joe Biden‘s victory in the state.The lawsuit, brought by the campaign and two registered voters, alleged Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting system “lacked all of the hallmarks of transparency and verifiability that were present for in-person voters.” Trump faces long odds in lawsuits challenging ballot counts The lawsuit claims Pennsylvania officials violated the U.S.

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Edmonton women reflect on impact of Kamala Harris’ historic win

The 2020 U.S. election marked many milestones, but the historic win by Kamala Harris stands out.

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President-elect Biden names COVID-19 advisors

With the coronavirus spreading widely throughout the country and hospitalizations and deaths climbing, President-elect Joe Biden today announced a new COVID-19 advisory board to guide his administration during the transition period.

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U.S. election: Here’s what happens until Joe Biden, Kamala Harris are inaugurated

Joe Biden has been projected the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, defeating Donald Trump.The Associated Press has projected Biden will win at least 290 electoral college votes, with a few states still counting ballots.However, Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris won’t take over the country’s highest office until Jan.

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Trump not making concession speech damages democracy: expert

The public acknowledgment of defeat by losing candidates has been a staple of U.S. presidential elections since 1896.

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President-elect Biden names COVID-19 advisory board

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De Blasio dismisses coronavirus risks during Biden victory celebrations, contrary to CDC guidelines

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio on Monday appeared to brush off concerns that weekend celebrations over Joe Biden’s presidential victory could contribute to the further spread of the coronavirus. At the mayor’s daily press briefing, a New York Post reporter noted that although many attendees of these celebrations wore masks, many did not abide by social distancing rules – guidelines that De Blasio has previously urged New Yorkers to follow.

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'This is proof': Biden's win reveals power of Black voters

DETROIT – Power. Respect.

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Russian President Putin won't immediately congratulate President-elect Joe Biden

Russian President Vladimir Putin speeches during his press conference at the G20 Osaka Summit 2019, on June 29, 2019 in Osaka, Japan. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t congratulate President-elect Joe Biden until legal challenges to the U.S.

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President-Elect Joe Biden Announces COVID-19 Advisory Board & Urges Americans To Wear Masks In Fight Against Coronavirus

Joe Biden addresses the nation with a briefing about the newly formed COVID-19 Advisory Board on Monday morning (November 9) from Wilmington, Del.

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Childhood friend sang Jackson 5 on school bus with Kamala Harris in Berkeley

BERKELEY, Calif. - Kamala Harris went to elementary school in Berkeley Hills and the school is filled with so much pride over her historic win.Harris is featured in a mural at Thousand Oaks Elementary School. Families were out taking pictures a day after her historic victory to become the first woman and first person of color vice president.“It was incredible,” said Harris’s childhood friend Carole Porter. “I just started crying.

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Asian shares, US futures surge after Joe Biden declared president-elect

FILE - Pedestrians walk past in front of an electronic board displaying the price of the Nikkei stock average outside of a securities firm on November 05, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. (Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images)Asian shares and U.S.

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Mexico, Brazil leaders silent as world congratulates president-elect Joe Biden

FILE - Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro arrives to attend the National Flag Raising ceremony in front of Alvorada Palace amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. (Andre Borges/NurPhoto via Getty Images)MEXICO CITY - There were two notable holdouts among the world leaders who rushed to congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S.

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America Votes 2020: U.S. President-Elect Biden aims to end era of divisive rhetoric

U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden vowed to take swift action to slow the surge of COVID-19 during his victory speech, but also called to end four years of division fuelled by Donald Trump.

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Nats make their pitch to Biden, invite him to throw 1st ball

WASHINGTON – The Washington Nationals are making their pitch to President-elect Joe Biden.The Nats have invited Biden to toss out the ceremonial first ball next season on opening day. Washington is scheduled to host the New York Mets at Nationals Park on April 1.“We’re excited to continue the long-standing tradition of sitting Presidents throwing out the first pitch at the home of the national pastime in our nation’s capital,” the team posted on Twitter this weekend.Biden last threw out a first ball as vice president, in 2009 when the Baltimore Orioles hosted the New York Yankees on opening day at Camden Yards.

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President-elect Biden to unveil COVID-19 task force on Monday

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden is planning to name former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and former FDA Commissioner Dr.

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Former President George W. Bush sends ‘warm congratulations’ to President-elect Joe Biden

Former Vice President Joe Biden presents George W. Bush and Laura Bush the 2018 Liberty Medal at The National Constitution Center on November 11, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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From Scranton, Pennsylvania to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Biden’s road to president-elect

FILE - Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at the Water's Edge Nature Center on December 2, 2019 in Algona, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)Former Vice President Joe Biden has had a prolific career in law and in federal office, which culminated in his projected election as the 46th president of the United States of America on Saturday.

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Kamala Harris books surge in popularity after election

Harris made history as the first Black woman to become vice president. The California senator, who is also the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency, will become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in government.

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‘You’re fired’: Celebrities react to projected Trump defeat, Biden-Harris win

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America Votes 2020: Kamala Harris makes history

Kamala Harris is the first woman, and first person of Black and South Asian descent to be elected U.S. vice-president. Eric Sorensen looks at what path the 56-year-old took to get to this historic moment.

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Indian-American Vivek Murthy expected to co-chair President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force

President-elect Joe Biden is going to announce on Monday.Murthy, 43, who originally hails from Karnataka, was appointed America’s 19th Surgeon General by then president Barack Obama in 2014.Born in the UK, he was the youngest ever to hold the office at the age of 37.

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Supporters rally downtown after projections declare Joe Biden president-elect

ORLANDO, Fla. – Dozens of supporters filled Lake Eola on Saturday afternoon in support of President-elect Joe Biden, after projections from Nevada and Pennsylvania put the former vice president’s ticket over the top.Congresswoman Val Demings spoke to News 6 after the projections. She campaigned for Biden and was vetted for vice president on his ticket.“We need to get our economy back on track and we know how important tourism is to central Florida,” she said.

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President-elect Joe Biden to unveil COVID-19 task force

During President-elect Joe Biden's address to the nation Saturday evening, he announced that his administration's work will begin with addressing the coronavirus pandemic. "We cannot repair the economy, restore vitality or relish life's most precious moments - our grandchildren, our children, our birthdays, weddings, graduation, all the moments that matter most to us - until we get it under control," Biden said.

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Indians in Harris' ancestral home wake up to her victory

THULASENDRAPURAM – After rooting for Kamala Harris as President-elect Joe Biden's running mate, people in her small ancestral Indian village woke up Sunday morning to the news of her making history.Most of them had gone to sleep by the time Biden clinched the winning threshold of 270 Electoral College votes. "Congratulations Kamala Harris.

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‘This is the time to heal’: President-elect Joe Biden, VP-elect Kamala Harris address nation

WILMINGTON, Del. - Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivered remarks ahead of President-elect Joe Biden Saturday night during a prime-time address to the nation.Biden and his wife, Jill, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, appeared at a drive-in rally outside the convention center in Wilmington, Delaware.RELATED: Who won the election? Joe Biden projected as winner of 2020 presidential race after claiming PennsylvaniaHarris was first on stage, opening her remarks by remembering the late Congressman John Lewis, and she thanked voters.“So, Congressman John Lewis, before his passing, wrote, ‘Democracy is not a state, it is an act.’ And what he meant was that America’s democracy is not guaranteed, it is only

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Meet Doug Emhoff, America’s first-ever second gentleman

WASHINGTON - Kamala Harris’ projected election as vice president means a lot of firsts for the California senator. She will be the first Black American, first woman and first person of South Asian descent elected to the position.

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President-elect Joe Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris deliver remarks after 2020 election win

WILMINGTON, Del. - Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivered remarks ahead of President-elect Joe Biden Saturday night during a prime-time address to the nation.Biden and his wife, Jill, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, appeared at a drive-in rally outside the convention center in Wilmington, Delaware.Harris was first on stage, opening her remarks by remembering the late Congressman John Lewis, and she thanked voters.“Protecting our democracy takes struggle and takes sacrifice, but there is joy in it, and there is progress, because we the people have the power to build a better future," she said.

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World reacts to 2020 election result, global leaders congratulate President-elect Joe Biden

FILE - Harrisons bar owner Derek Leonard poses with a framed photograph of his meeting with Joe Biden during the former vice Presidents last visit on November 7, 2020 as locals celebrate in anticipation of Biden being elected as the next US President (Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)World leaders swiftly congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on his victory Saturday, cheering it as an opportunity to fortify global democracy and celebrating the significance of Americans having their first woman vice president.Although U.S.

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Black leaders greet Biden win, pledge to push for equality

DETROIT – President-elect Joe Biden’s victory was celebrated by civil rights activists and Black leaders who warned that a tough road lies ahead to address America’s persistent inequalities and the racial division that Donald Trump fueled during his presidency.Biden will take office in January as the nation confronts a series of crises that have taken a disproportionate toll on Black Americans and people of color, including the pandemic and resulting job losses. Many cities saw protests against racial injustice during a summer of unrest.

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Balance of power: VP-elect Kamala Harris to become potential tie-breaking Senate vote

LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, Joe Biden won the presidency, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump in the 2020 race for the White House, according to projections by the Associated Press and FOX News. Biden’s projected win catapults California Sen.

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‘Professor FLOTUS’: Jill Biden will make history as first lady with full-time teaching job

WASHINGTON - The 2020 election result is historic in more ways than one: Kamala Harris has become the first Black American and woman to become vice president-elect and Dr. Jill Biden, wife to the president-elect, will become the first first lady to work full time as a teacher.When Jill Biden introduced herself to millions of Americans during the 2020 Democratic National Convention, she did so from a high school where she once taught English near her Delaware home.The incoming first lady took a leave of absence from what would have been her 36th year of teaching to campaign for her husband.

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Obama congratulates Biden and Harris: 'Couldn't be prouder'

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 12: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama (R) presents the Medal of Freedom to Vice-President Joe Biden during an event in the State Dinning room of the White House, January 12, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom congratulates Kamala Harris on projected White House victory

Kamala Harris speaks at the IBEW Local Union 58 on Oct. 25, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan.

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‘We did it’: VP-elect Kamala Harris makes 1st call to Joe Biden after projected White House win

LOS ANGELES - Kamala Harris made a historic phone call to President-elect Joe Biden after news networks, including FOX News and the Associated Press, projected that Biden would win the White House Saturday.The video footage, posted to Harris’ Twitter account, showed her congratulating Biden over the phone with a wide smile.“We did it. We did it Joe,” Harris beamed.

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Assured of victory, Biden-Harris start focusing on public health and economy

US presidential election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris have begun working on the task ahead by focusing on two critical areas of public health and economy, both battered by the raging COVID-19 pandemic.According to latest projections, Biden had 264 of the 538 electoral college votes up for grabs.

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Kamala Harris to take stage before Joe Biden in primetime speech Friday

WILMINGTON, Del. - Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will deliver remarks ahead of presidential candidate Joe Biden Friday night in a primetime speech. Harris has appeared alongside Biden during his remarks in recent days but has not made any public comments herself on the state of the race as the votes continue to be tabulated in several key battleground states. Biden has pulled ahead in both Pennsylvania and Georgia, and a projection in his favor in either state would put him over the electoral vote threshold required to win the presidency.A campaign official confirmed Harris will speak Friday night before Biden does.

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Trump makes baseless allegations over U.S. election, prompting Republican rebukes

Donald Trump on Thursday made a series of unfounded and outright false allegations about voter fraud as several states continue to count ballots days after the presidential election.Speaking from the White House, Trump baselessly accused Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his party of trying to steal the election, casting doubt on the legitimacy of mail-in ballots that appear to have been overwhelmingly cast for the former vice-president. As Biden inches closer to U.S.

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Pennsylvania making good headway in count, secretary of state says

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania had hundreds of thousands of ballots left to count Thursday, a number that state officials expected to dwindle rapidly as Democrat Joe Biden and President Donald Trump fought to the end for the White House.“It’s very close in Pennsylvania, there’s no question,” said the state’s election’s chief, Kathy Boockvar. “So that means it’s going to take longer to actually see who the winner is.”Some of the state’s most heavily populated locales, including Montgomery and Chester counties in the Philadelphia suburbs, reported finishing their tallies.

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WATCH LIVE: Trump campaign makes announcement in Nevada

WASHINGTON – As Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House, President Donald Trump’s campaign put into action the legal strategy the president had signaled for weeks: attacking the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean his defeat.Democrats scoffed at the legal challenges the president's campaign filed Wednesday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia.

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Biden breaks Obama’s record for most votes for presidential candidate in US history

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - NOVEMBER 04: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks at a drive-in election night event as Dr. Jill Biden looks on at the Chase Center in the early morning hours of November 04, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Biden works to push Black turnout during campaign speech in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA - Joe Biden was spending the final days of the presidential campaign appealing to Black supporters to vote in-person during a pandemic that has disproportionally affected their communities, betting that a strong turnout will boost his chances in states that could decide the election.Biden was in Philadelphia on Sunday, the largest city in what is emerging as the most hotly contested battleground in the closing 48 hours of the campaign. He participated in a “souls to the polls” event that is part of a nationwide effort to organize Black churchgoers to vote.“Every single day we’re seeing race-based disparities in every aspect of this virus,” Biden said at the drive-in event, shouting to be heard over the blaring car horns.

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