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President Biden sends comprehensive immigration reform bill to Congress on day one in White House

3:40 pm January 21, 2021

Washington: US President Joe Biden on the day one of his presidency sent a comprehensive immigration bill to Congress which proposes major overhauls to the system, including granting legal status and a path to citizenship to tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants and other groups and reduce the time that family members must wait outside the US for green […]

Kamala Harris sworn in as America’s first woman Vice President

11:35 pm January 20, 2021

Washington : Kamala Harris was on Wednesday sworn in as America’s first woman Vice President during a historic inauguration at the West Front of the Capitol. Harris, 56, the 49th US Vice President, will serve as the deputy of President Joe Biden, 78, who also took the oath of office, becoming the 46th US President. Harris took over the office […]

Biden takes oath as 46th US President, Harris as Vice President amidst unprecedented security

11:29 pm January 20, 2021

Washington: Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States and Kamala Harris took oath as first woman Vice President on Wednesday in a historic but scaled down ceremony under the unprecedented security umbrella of thousands of security personnel, who transformed the Capitol into a fortress to prevent any breach by pro-Trump extremists. The 78-year-old veteran Democrat leader was administered the […]

‘Clear the Capitol,’ Mike Pence pleaded, timeline of riot shows

US Capitol briefly put under lockdown due to ‘external security treat’

11:52 pm January 18, 2021

Washington : The Capitol Hill, the complex comprising of US Congress and its buildings, was briefly put under lockdown on Monday due to ”an external security treat”, local police said after a fire was reported a few blocks away. ”All buildings within the Capitol Complex: External security threat, no entry or exit is permitted, stay away from exterior windows, doors. […]

US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris submits her resignation from Senate

11:25 pm January 18, 2021

Washington : Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Monday officially resigned from her Senate seat, ending her four-year innings in the upper chamber of the United States Congress. Her resignation from the Senate came two days before the 56-year-old would be sworn in on Wednesday along with President-elect Joe Biden, making history as the first female, first Black and first South Asian American vice president. Harris, a Democrat, has formally […]