![The Keystone XL pipeline was cancelled by the Obama administration in 2015 but was given a presidential permit by Trump in 2017 [File: Andrew Burton/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/367330478.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The project, which was rejected by Obama administration for contravening climate change goals, was approved by Trump.
US & Canada
![The US government considers Huawei a threat to national security [File: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/367000569.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
US is revoking licences of several Huawei suppliers, including Intel, in a final blow to the Chinese telecoms firm.
![Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest against the election of President-elect Joe Biden, outside the Minnesota State Capitol in Minneapolis, Minnesota [Eric Miller/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-17T192501Z_1068872404_RC2V9L9FVKQN_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-PROTESTS.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
US law enforcement agencies had warned of violent protests across the country before Joe Biden’s...
![Kamala Harris will resign her Senate seat on Monday [File: Alexander Drago/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_20177582160032.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Harris will leave the Senate chamber two days before she is inaugurated as US vice president on...
![Joe Biden will sign a flurry of executive orders on Inauguration Day [Angela Weiss/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YW9BN.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Memo by Biden’s incoming chief of staff showed that the president-elect is looking to reverse several Trump policies.
![Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building on January 6 [File: Leah Millis/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-06T215425Z_727750389_RC2L2L994MFJ_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-TRUMP.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Bureau examining payments of $500,000 in bitcoin made by a French national to key far-right figures and groups.
Numerous social media sites have suspended Trump’s accounts – is this good media ethics or good business sense?
![This handout photo shows the core stage for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket in the B-2 Test Stand during a scheduled eight minute duration hot fire test, January 16, 2021, at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St Louis, Mississippi [Robert Markowitz/ NASA/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YX28H.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The test is a vital step in NASA’s Artemis programme to put the first woman and the next man on the moon in 2024.
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The FBI has warned of possible armed protests in all 50 states and the US capital ahead of January 20 inauguration.
Russia is following the US by pulling out of the aerial surveillance pact.
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Wendy Sherman, Joe Biden’s nominee for deputy secretary of state, was key US negotiator of 2015 Iran nuclear accord.
![Bill Breeden, an anti-death penalty advocate, protests the execution of Dustin Higgs outside the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana [Bryan Woolston/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Execution.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Number of federal death sentences carried out under Trump since 2020 is more than the previous 56 years combined.
China’s economy is expected to grow at its slowest pace since the Mao era, and debt has soared to $43 trillion.
The Colombia-born NASA aerospace engineer shares her journey as an immigrant and how it influences her work.