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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.
INAUGURATION DAY A new era of American politics will begin today when President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office. The inauguration will be like no other: It will happen in the wake of insurrection in Washington, and amid a pandemic that has killed 400,000 people in the United States.
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Replay Video UP NEXT Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made his most definitive break yet with President Trump on Tuesday while the leader of the incoming Democratic majority laid out an ambitious agenda for the opening weeks of the Biden administration, signaling a dizzying changing of the guard in Washington. McConnell (R-Ky.) for the first time directly blamed Trump for the lethal Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. “The mob was fed lies,” he said in his final floor speech closing out six years as majority leader. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.”
The US capital has enhanced security in an unprecedented manner in the lead-up to President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration, practically closing the city to the public.
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The Latest: Pompeo ethos sign removed from State Dept. lobby FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gestures toward a reporter while speaking at the State Department in Washington. Pompeo plans to deliver a speech extolling the Trump administration s foreign policy this week in Georgia ahead of key Senate run-off elections that will determine control of the upper chamber of Congress. The accusation of genocide by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo against China touches on a hot-button human rights issue between China and the West. Associated Press President Joe Biden waits to sign his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington.Â