US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer assures public all measures are being taken to ensure a safe inauguration for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris tomorrow
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell publicly says that Trump provoked the deadly insurrection on Capitol Hill
US President-elect Joe Biden faces a raging pandemic and rise of far-right groups in his first days in office following his inauguration
Surveys show majority of Americans like the way Joe Biden has handled the transition period which is being overshadowed by fraud claims, a deadly pandemic and violence at the Capitol
Survey conducted by US network ABC and Washington Post reveals high confidence rating Americans have in Joe Biden's administration solving existing problems
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says that he looks forward to working with US President-elect Joe Biden to strengthen transatlantic ties
US President-elect Joe Biden's secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken says incoming administration will immediately propose to review the terrorist designation of Yemen's Houthis
US President-elect Joe Biden's Pentagon pick, Lloyd Austin, says he supports plan to overturn ban on transgender service members
"I am proud, proud, proud, proud to be a son of Delaware, and I am even more proud to be standing here doing this from the Major Beau Biden Facility."

US President-elect Joe Biden bids farewell to Delaware on his way to the White House
Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken:

- WHO a very 'imperfect' organisation needing reform, US will get back to it to advance the reform
- Door should be open to countries like Georgia joining NATO
- US will extend the new START nuclear arms control treaty
President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken says the US has a responsibility to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon
President-elect Joe Biden attends national tribute in Washington to 400,000 Americans who lost their lives to Covid-19
The FBI has removed a dozen US National Guard troops from inaugural duty after vetting
US President Donald Trump delivers his farewell address, in which he fails to mention President-elect Joe Biden
President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, commits to keeping the US embassy in Jerusalem
Hours before leaving office, US President Donald Trump orders declassification of binder of documents related to the FBI's Russia probe
US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris pays tribute to the victims who have lost their lives to the Covid-19 pandemic
No crowds present as a somber ceremony was held in front of the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the victims of the Covid-19 in the US
US President Donald Trump expected to pardon former White House adviser Steve Bannon – source familiar with the discussions
US President Trump grants clemency to

- Rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black
- Former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick
Trump pardons former White House adviser Steve Bannon, accused of fraud in case involving fund for border wall – senior administration official
Trump pardons Elliot Broidy, a former Trump donor, who pleaded guilty to violate foreign lobbying laws – senior administration official
US President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, commits to releasing unclassified report on Jamal Khashoggi murder
House of Representatives impeached Trump on a charge of incitement, making him the first president in US history to be impeached twice, but the Senate has yet to schedule a trial. Political adviser Rina Shah has more
US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice president-elect Kamala Harris are in Washington, DC, ahead of their inauguration
Trump pardons former Google self-driving project executive Anthony Levandowski – White House statement
What are Joe Biden's plans hours before becoming the new president of the US? Our correspondent Muttalip Erdogan explains
US President Trump releases a video on YouTube, one of the only social media companies he is still able to use, praising himself for what he has done in the last four years
In his final hours as US president, Donald Trump continues his wave of pardons and commutations, including his former aide Steve Bannon and other allies
What more do we know about President Trump's pardons?  Our correspondent Leone Lakhani reports

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