WASHINGTON - Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, stood on the U.S. Capitol steps Wednesday to bid farewell to her predecessor, former Vice President Mike Pence, and his wife, Karen, following Harris’ swearing-in ceremony on Inauguration Day 2021.In a video of the honorary departure, the two couples stood and chatted for a few moments, even laughing, on the steps before the Pences got into a vehicle and were driven away.The honorary departure involves the incoming vice president sending off the outgoing vice president and would have involved former President Donald Trump bidding farewell to President Joe Biden as well, though Trump did not attend the inauguration ceremony. RELATED: Inauguration Day.

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Federal judge bars Biden from enforcing 100-day deportation ban

HOUSTON - A federal judge on Tuesday barred the U.S. government from enforcing a 100-day deportation moratorium that is a key immigration priority of President Joe Biden.U.S.

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Janet Yellen sworn in as first woman Treasury secretary

WASHINGTON – Janet Yellen was sworn in Tuesday as the nation's 78th Treasury secretary and the first woman to hold the office.

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Joe Biden to call for end of federally run private prisons

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Senate confirms Antony Blinken as 71st secretary of state

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Russia diplomat hails progress in nuclear pact talks with US

MOSCOW – A senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday that Moscow and Washington were making quick progress to negotiate an extension of their last remaining nuclear arms control treaty.

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Murphy's top message to Biden? Ramp up vaccine production

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Senate confirms Antony Blinken as Biden’s Secretary of State

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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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US live events industry offers to help with coronavirus vaccination effort in letter to Joe Biden

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President Biden thinks US is on pace for herd immunity in 2021. Here’s what that means

President Joe Biden believes that the U.S. could reach herd immunity by the summer.

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AP sources: Joe Biden to pause oil drilling on public lands

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Biden Commerce pick stresses investment in COVID-19 recovery

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Bernie Sanders crochet doll being auctioned off for charity

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

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Twitter permanently bans MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell

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Twitter permanently bans My Pillow CEO

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Joe Biden says herd immunity from Covid could be achieved this year

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Veteran activists campaign for Biden's immigration reform

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Biden signs executive order enacting ‘Buy American’ plan

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O’Regan rebuffs calls to impose sanctions on U.S. over Keystone XL cancellation

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'THIS IS ME': Rioters flaunt involvement in Capitol siege

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Biden more bullish on vaccines, open to 1.5M daily shot goal

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Biden walking a high wire with Russia ahead of Putin call

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Trump creates 'Office of the Former President' in Florida

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

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Janet Yellen wins Senate approval to become 1st female Treasury secretary

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Leahy expected to preside over Trump impeachment trial instead of Chief Justice Roberts

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Biden tells Merkel he wants to revitalize Germany alliance

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Trump agreements seek to tie Biden's hands on immigration

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Southern Hills to replace Trump National for '22 PGA

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Biden administration suspends some sanctions on Yemen rebels

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Pets are back: Biden's 2 dogs settle in at White House

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Amid stimulus talks, Biden signs order to help factories

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Effort to put Tubman on $20 bill restarted under Biden

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Supreme Court ends lawsuits over whether Trump illegally profited off presidency

Outgoing President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2021.

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President Biden's dogs officially move in to White House

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Texas man with gun, 95 rounds of ammo 'needed information about the Oval Office' before arrest

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Biden replaces White House doctor with longtime physician

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President Biden to reinstate COVID-19 travel rules

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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

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Borders tighten around world as coronavirus curfew fury spills over

Netherlands.The United States was set to join France, Israel and Sweden in pulling up the drawbridge to certain arrivals, with special concern about new strains of the pathogen that originated in Britain and South Africa."It's up to us to show that we are civic-minded," Spaniard Claudio Barraza told AFP upon arrival at Paris's main international airport, after new rules on tests for EU arrivals came into force.The stipulations came as Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador became the latest public figure to test positive for the disease, and New Zealand reported its first community case for more than two months.In Washington, President Joe Biden will on Monday reimpose a ban on most non-US citizens who have been in Britain, Brazil,

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Biden plans to sign order for govt to buy more US goods

BALTIMORE – President Joe Biden plans to sign on Monday an executive order that aims to boost government purchases from U.S. manufacturers, according to administration officials.

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Borders tightened as Dutch lockdown anger spills over

Border restrictions are being tightened around the world today in the face of an unrelenting coronavirus threat.

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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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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
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

Vice President Kamala Harris bids farewell to predecessor Mike Pence in ‘honorary departure’

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