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Joe Biden was inaugurated in a smaller and heavily fortified bipartisan ceremony, facing economic and health crises and he succeeds Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to rejoin the U.S. into the Paris climate agreement, his first major action on global warming.

The crumbling relationship between Washington and Beijing intensified under the Trump administration.

Patrick Edward McCaughey III is the latest person charged for the Capitol riot by a mob of supporters of Donald Trump opposed to the election of Joe Biden.

Trump also pardoned Steve Bannon, Elliott Broidy and Lil Wayne in his last hours in office before Joe Biden became president.

Kamala Harris was sworn in Wednesday as the nation's first female, Black and South Asian American vice president.

Sen. Richard Burr was the only remaining senator to face a criminal probe related to stock trades made in advance of the coronavirus pandemic.

The rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black also received pardons from Trump, hours before Joe Biden was due to be inagurated as president.

"It's going to be very tough for the president and Congress to find that middle ground," GOP political strategist Frank Luntz told CNBC.

Joe Biden will deliver an inauguration speech centered on unity as the U.S. faces one of its most chaotic transfers of power.

The inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Wednesday comes two weeks after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The Senate will deal with a 50-50 split, President Trump's impeachment trial and confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's Cabinet.

McConnell's remarks came as he and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer work to hash out details on Trump's impending impeachment trial.

As Joe Biden prepares to be inaugurated, prosecutors are ramping up arrests of supporters of President Donald Trump related to alleged violence.

Biden is scheduled to deliver additional remarks later Tuesday at the Lincoln Memorial in a ceremony honoring the victims of the coronavirus.

Trump praised his administration's efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the death toll of which topped 400,000 earlier Tuesday.

The attorney told CNBC he sent letters to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Rep. Jim Himes in an attempt to get Madoff's sentence reduced.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse urged IRS to review the tax exempt status of Turning Point USA, a dark-money group led by pro-Trump conservative Charlie Kirk.

Biden is planning on a 10-day blitz of executive action on what his administration is calling the "four crises" facing the country.

In the wake of Navalny's poisoning last year, Biden vowed "to work with our allies and partners to hold the Putin regime accountable for its crimes."