Fewer people, more security expected at Presidential Inauguration I know the president, or incoming president, is going to be escorted from beginning to end, they re also going to have very high-level fences. Author: Erika Ferrando (WWL) Updated: 10:39 PM CST January 19, 2021
NEW ORLEANS With reduced crowds due to COVID and heightened security, this year s inauguration will be unlike any other in American history.
A field of flags line the National Mall in place of what normally would be a patriotic crowd to witness a new president sworn into office., but because of the pandemic, President-Elect Joe Biden will instead transition into office in front of the hundreds of thousands of flags and political leaders from across the country.
Disharmony in NATO: How Artifacts of the Cold War Corrode US-Germany Relations
20.Jan.2021 9:30 AM . 7 min read
In July 2020, the United States announced its decision to scale back about a third of its military presence in Germany, bringing the number of troops down from approximately 36,000 to 24,000. At the time of the announcement, Germany hosted the most US military personnel of any European nation, hosting nearly three times the number of troops of Italy, a distant second. Of the troops being withdrawn, around 6,400 were planned to return to the United States while the rest would be re-allocated to other European nations including Italy and Belgium in a reconfiguration that would cost billions. With only a handful of countries maintaining comparable numbers of US military personnel, this is a drastic and unprecedented reduction of force.
Boris Johnson Offers Congratulations to Biden: Inaugural Update Bloomberg 19/01/2021 Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) The U.K. prime minister offered congratulations ahead of Wednesday’s inauguration. The president-elect’s morning stop Wednesday will have echoes of the last Catholic president. And some U.S. Capitol Police officers have contracted the coronavirus since the Jan. 6 riot.
U.K. Prime Minister Johnson Congratulates Biden (5:56 p.m.)
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson congratulated Biden on his inauguration and said he looked forward to “working closely” with him to “defeat Covid and build back better from the pandemic.”
In a statement released Tuesday, Johnson said the U.K. shared U.S. goals on “climate change, defense, security and in promoting and defending democracy” and the nations would work “hand in hand” to achieve them.
A luminary lit in honor of a COVID-19 victim in Coralville on Tuesday
CORALVILLE, Iowa (KWWL) - A year ago Tuesday, very few Iowans thought they would lose a loved one to COVID-19. When we first heard about it, we thought it would stay contained and it would just be something we would hear about, Heidi Barkhoff said, who lost her aunt in November.
On Tuesday, the United State surpassed 400,000 deaths from the deadly virus; exactly one year after the first confirmed case of the virus in our country.
To date, 4,332 people have died in Iowa; Barkhoff s aunt being one of them.
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