BREAKINGBiden, Harris certified as winners of 2020 election: Live
Trump promises ‘an orderly transition’ after Congress concludes electoral vote count certifying Biden victory.
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Trump promises ‘an orderly transition’ after Congress concludes electoral vote count certifying Biden victory.
Republicans and Democrats join to condemn mob violence at the Capitol, dismiss Trump’s election fraud claims as invalid.
Democratic Congress members tell Vice President Pence that Trump cannot remain for full term as not ‘mentally sound’.
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![People shelter in the House gallery as protesters try to break into the Chamber of the US House of Representatives. [Andrew Harnik/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21006736482604.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
![Congress staffers barricade themselves inside offices after Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. [Olivier Douliery/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YB497.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
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![Protesters celebrate in the Capitol Rotunda after breaching Capitol security. [Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/h_56604899.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
![A Congress staffer holds his hands up while a Capitol Police SWAT team checks everyone in the room searching for Trump supporters who breached the building. [Olivier Douliery/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YB368.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
![A supporter of President Trump is arrested inside the US Capitol. [Olivier Douliery/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YB3EB.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
![Demonstrators break TV equipment outside the US Capitol. [Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21006853718248.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
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Several countries including Australia, the UK, and Canada call for calm and a peaceful transition of power.
Facebook also said it would search for and remove content praising the storming of the Capitol or encouraged violence.
Clean sweep by Democrats allows them to enact big-spending policies likely to benefit the economy, investors say.
Since 2020, Indian authorities began burying suspected rebels in unmarked graves, denying the families proper funerals.