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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Monday resigned from the United States Senate. The move is made in preparation for her inauguration alongside President-elect Joe Biden, which is slated for Wednesday.
Harris sent a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), making her resignation from the upper chamber of Congress official. I hereby resign as Senator from the State of California, effective January 18th, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EST, the resignation letter to Newsom stated. As I assume my duties as Vice President of the United States, I would like to thank the people of California for the honor of serving them in the U.S. Senate over the past four years.
U.S. security officials say they are taking every precaution to guard against an attack on President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday on the steps of the U.S.
On January 6, a group of Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol to protest legislators confirming electoral slates from battleground US states they thought were invalid.
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The U.S. on Monday stood on the brink of 400,000 reported coronavirus deaths, almost double the total of the next most severely hit nation and still mourning more than 20,000 deaths per week. The U.S. has added almost 4 million new infections this month, and the emergence of new variants only figures to add to that total.