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Biden-Trump transition
Tuesday
19 January 2021
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Event at the Lincoln Memorial offers ‘national moment of unity’ to honor the lives lost to Covid-19, tweets Jill Biden – follow live -
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The swimmer won gold medals for his country in Athens and Beijing. Then his patriotism took an ugly turn
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Headlines
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For four years the outrages piled up so high they were hard to keep track of but the coronavirus pandemic proved to be one crisis he couldn’t bluster away -
Thousands more deaths expected this season as more transmissible strain spreads and vaccinations move slowly
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Analysis: The convergent crises call for a united response, the president-elect argues, but Republicans say that means forgetting Trump’s alleged role in insurrection -
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ECFR survey finds more Europeans than not say US cannot be trusted after four years of Trump
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Trump order announced plans to lift measures imposed in March but Biden spokeswoman says ‘This is not the time to be lifting restrictions’ -
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Surge in infections dampens optimism over country’s advanced immunisation programme
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The freshman congresswoman talks about what it was like to be in the Capitol during the attack, getting booed for denouncing white supremacy, and the Republicans who mistook her for Breonna Taylor -
The charming series combines Ocean’s Eleven’s slickness with the implausibility of National Treasure to become the first French series to crack the US top 10
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The president’s daughter did encourage her father to push through a bill on paid parental leave, but her successes are outweighed by the administration’s damaging policies, writes Arwa Mahdawi -
My father, Salman Alodah, is among the thousands of prisoners of conscience in Saudi jails, say researcher Abdullah Alaoudh, writing with commentator Abderrahmane Amor
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Sarah Thomas will cap her sixth NFL season by becoming the first female to officiate the Super Bowl in the league’s history -
First-half goals from Wilfred Ndidi and James Maddison send Leicester top of the Premier League with a 2-0 win at home to Chelsea
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The Guardian’s technology editor, Alex Hern, looks at the rise of bitcoin and whether it should be banned
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Germany became a unified state 150 years ago this week – and no other country has produced such original, provocative and powerful art since, from Richter to Klee, from Dix to Höch -
More than 500 book industry professionals have added their names to a call for publishers not to sign up veterans of the departing president’s government
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Biden nominates Levine for assistant health secretary role and hails ‘historic and deeply qualified choice’ -
Blazes, intensified by the climate crisis, are reversing decades of gains in cutting air pollution, scientists report -
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A convoy of Spaniards and allies was ritually sacrificed in 1520 at Tecoaque – ‘the place where they ate them’ – before Hernán Cortés wreaked revenge -
Hit hard by the pandemic, the flagship Gibert Jeune store is closing its doors – one of many booksellers in the city feeling the strain of Covid-19
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Narendra Modi congratulates team’s ‘remarkable grit’ after India beats Australia in fourth Test to win series -
Museum shut due to coronavirus was unaware that 500-year-old Salvator Mundi had been missing -
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In pictures: Mount Semeru and Mount Merapi spewing lava and ash kilometres into the atmosphere -
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Conservationists are strongly critical of the system used to prevent shark attacks off the beaches of KwaZulu-Natal, an area where sharks can be viewed by divers without cages
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