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Biden's first presidential actions would also include sending a comprehensive bill on immigration to the Congress, incoming White House officials said.

Biden will take the oath on his 127-year-old family Bible, which will be held by his wife, Jill Biden.

Facebook on January 7 imposed a ban on Trump from its platforms "indefinitely" following a pro-Trump attack on the US Capitol, saying the ban would not be lifted before Inauguration Day on January 20.

The shuttle mockup was mated with a huge fuel tank and two prototype solid-rocket boosters for display at the state-owned museum in 1988.

The pardons and commutations for 143 people, including Bannon, were announced after midnight Wednesday in the final hours of Trump's White House term.

With this, Maldives (along with Bhutan) has become the first recipient of India's gift of the Covishield vaccines, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII).

Following the presidential elections in November 2020, Kamala Harris made history as she became the first woman of colour, Indian-American and first Asian American to occupy the second-highest US office

Some of these bacteria are able to turn dormant in poor growth conditions such as cold temperatures - and can remain in that state of hibernation for long periods before resuscitating.

According to a study, published in the journal Chemical Senses, the disease also often results in both the loss of taste and other senses in the mouth.

"#JUSTIN: #JackMa not disappear, here we go: Ma just had a video conference with 100 village teachers on Wednesday morning, saying: after #COVID19, we'll meet each other again," tweeted Qingqing Chen, Chief Reporter of Global Times News, a China state-affiliated media.

The Snapchat lens will also play a message from Biden addressing Snapchatters: "Hey Snapchat!! It's me, Joe. Welcome to inauguration!"

“Thank you for this extraordinary privilege. And that's what it is a great privilege and a great honour,” he said.

An Egyptian archaeological mission also uncovered the remains of a church from the early Coptic era and a temple from the Ptolemaic period

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 24,073,555 and 398,977, respectively, according to the CSSE

The Democratic Party will gain control of the Senate later this month when Georgia's Democratic senators-elect Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are sworn in.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor had a preliminary magnitude of 6.4.

Three people whose samples were sent to Hong Kong for testing via gene sequencing have been confirmed to have contracted the mutated variant.

The $80 million yacht American Magic was dramatically hoisted out of the water by a freak wind

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration will seek "additional information, both from the company, but also from the Norwegian medical regulator," Hunt said on Sunday.

The sector has witnessed an upward trend despite the pandemic

While mask-wearing and social distancing are strictly enforced, life in the tourism-reliant emirate looks much like normal, with its restaurants, hotels and mega-malls open for business.

The research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm Zignal Labs found that conversations about election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 mentions across several social media sites in the week after Trump

The state-run Anadolu agency reported on Sunday that it was a Russian-flagged dry cargo ship with a total of 13 Russian crew on board.

In its latest update on Monday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 95,003,533 and 2,029,938, respectively.